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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
AAMCNews
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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U.S. House Members Introduce Resolution Designating Sept. 16-20 as Medical Research Week

The House declares this week Medical Research Week.

  • Sept. 18, 2024
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Viewpoints
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
Damon Tweedy presenting about DEI
AAMCNews
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
2024 AAMC Awards
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
Laurel Braitman, PhD, leads a workshop
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
Anupam “Bapu” Jena speaking on stage.
AAMCNews
COVID is surging again. Here’s the latest on new variants, updated vaccines, and masking

The latest, highly contagious subvariants are driving infections, but new vaccines expected this fall may help stem the tide of another wave.

  • Aug. 29, 2024
Close-up of adult hand holding a positive result COVID-19 or SARS CoV-2 test kit with result
AAMCNews
Paralympian and Michigan medical student Sam Grewe goes for gold in Paris

The fourth-year medical student hopes to defend his gold medal from Tokyo in the high jump — a few months before entering The Match®.

  • Aug. 28, 2024
Samuel Grewe
Press Release
AAMC Recognizes Recipients of 2024 ACE Award for Advocacy, Collaboration, and Education

The ACE award honorees are leaders in academic medicine who exemplify the AAMC’s mission to improve the health of people everywhere.

  • Aug. 22, 2024
2024 ACE Award Recipients. From left to right: Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, MACP, Melanie Valentín
AAMCNews
Walk-in clinics tackle urgent mental health needs

With monthslong waits to see a mental health provider in the U.S., mental health urgent care clinics have been sprouting up. But can they meet the need?

  • Aug. 21, 2024
HMH Urgent Care with Behavioral Health
AAMCNews
Why do people respond to stress and trauma so differently? The emerging field of neuroresilience may have answers

A multidisciplinary approach to studying and treating brain disorders is shedding light on the mechanisms that may be behind psychological distress.

  • Aug. 8, 2024
Firing neurons