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Damon Tweedy presenting about DEI
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The past is never fully past: A case for DEI in medical education

Curtailing training in diversity, equity, and inclusion risks ignoring the shadow of history that still haunts many Black patients, argues Damon Tweedy, MD.

  • Sept. 18, 2024
2024 AAMC Awards
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Celebrating the 2024 AAMC Award winners

These distinguished academicians have had an outsize impact on medical education, medical research, and patient care.

  • Sept. 17, 2024
Laurel Braitman, PhD, leads a workshop
AAMCNews
Storytelling for health care workers: “If you aren’t scared, you can’t be brave”

Laurel Braitman, PhD, started a virtual writing group at the beginning of the pandemic. It’s still going strong.

  • Sept. 11, 2024
Anupam “Bapu” Jena speaking on stage.
AAMCNews
How much does randomness impact your health?

Internal medicine physician and economist Anupam “Bapu” Jena, MD, shares how natural experiments expose the role chance can play in medicine.

  • Sept. 4, 2024

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Where are all the women deans?

Women now outnumber men in most medical school classrooms. But they still represent just a fraction of deans, department chairs, and full professors.

  • June 11, 2019
AAMCNews
What can we learn from an epidemic?

AAMC Executive Vice President Atul Grover says we can use the lessons of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s to inform our work today around the opioid crisis.

  • June 11, 2019
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20 years of patient safety

It has been two decades since the modern patient safety movement was born. Here’s how we got to this milestone — and what lies ahead.

  • June 6, 2019
Press Release
AAMC, AAU, and APLU Statement on HHS Limits on Fetal Tissue Research

Learn more about the AAMC, AAU, and APLU statement on HHS limits on fetal tissue research.

  • June 5, 2019
Viewpoints
When patients lie

A patient-physician communication expert reveals the truth — and consequences — of patient coverups.

  • June 4, 2019
AAMCNews
Paging Dr. Spot

Canine companions have been spreading joy in hospitals for years. As canine visits have grown in number, providers also have expanded how dogs help.

  • June 4, 2019
AAMCNews
Academic health centers save millions of lives

Medical schools and teaching hospitals educate the next generation of physicians, conduct live-saving research, and care for the most medically complex patients

  • June 4, 2019
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First time for everything

Residents and medical students discuss their firsts.

  • May 31, 2019
AAMCNews
Advancing women in academic medicine

The AAMC urges medical schools and teaching hospitals to create institutional climates that support and promote women.

  • May 28, 2019
A group of doctors and medical professionals listening to a presentation.
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What if we treated every patient as though they had lived through a trauma?

Here’s how medical schools and teaching hospitals are using trauma-informed care to help all patients.

  • May 24, 2019