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Last Updated: May 15, 2025
Message from the VSLO Team
Dear VSLO Colleagues,
In this phase of the application season, Home institutions have released student applications, and Host institutions are now reviewing and rendering decisions on those applications. We would like to remind our Host institutions of the importance of rendering decisions and informing students in a timely manner. When notified promptly about Host decisions, students can make more strategic decisions about their next career steps. The VSLO Program Updates section below provides links to job aids you may find useful during this busy season. Thank you all for your personal and professional investment in ensuring the away rotation application season runs smoothly.
Next, we are excited to share information about modernization of the VSLO application service, which reflects user feedback from many of you. We are on track to launch the new platform this winter and we look forward to sharing the changes with you in the coming months. There will be ample training opportunities for you to familiarize yourself and your team with the new platform ahead of the next away rotation season.
Finally, our annual institutional user survey is coming your way soon. Stay tuned for more information on how you can share your invaluable input!
Thank you,
The AAMC VSLO Team
VSLO Program Updates
Host Institution Tips for Processing Applications
As Host institutions review and process incoming applications, the following job aids may be helpful. They highlight important actions and timely references, including:
- Requesting a Resubmission of a Requirement: This job aid provides instruction on how to request that a requirement be resubmitted.
- Editing a Decision: This job aid provides instruction on how to edit a decision on an application.
- Host Application Statuses Glossary: This document provides a glossary with definitions of the various statuses displayed to Host institution users.
- Reports Overview: This is a summary of the reports available in the VSLO application service.
Reminder: Puerto Rican Medical Schools are U.S. LCME Accredited
As Host institutions are processing applications, we want to remind you that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and the following four Puerto Rican medical schools are accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME):
- Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine
- San Juan Bautista School of Medicine
- Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine
- University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
Students at these LCME-accredited medical schools are eligible to apply for electives offered in any U.S. Network catalogs (open to their medical schools).
AAMC Resources for Medical Educators
Advancing AI Across Academic Medicine Resource Collection
This regularly updated collection hosted by the AAMC includes timely accessible tools from across academic medicine to help medical schools, academic health systems, and teaching hospitals effectively integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their educational environments. The collection is intended to address the immediate need to share practical AI resources and will be updated periodically through future calls for submissions.
Academic Medicine: U.S. Medical School Graduates’ Placement in GME: A National Study
A new study describes graduate medical education (GME) placement outcomes for recent U.S. medical school graduates and examines racial and ethnic differences in GME placement among these graduates.
How a Fourth-year Medical Student Responded to an In-flight Medical Emergency
Read about how this fourth-year medical student learned that clinical skills and kindness are both essential qualities to becoming a doctor through her experience responding to an in-flight emergency.
Additional Items of Interest
AMA News Wire: What do Medical Students Need to be Ready for Residency?
A new article by the American Medical Association (AMA) explores the Foundational Competencies for Undergraduate Medical Education report published in December 2024. The competencies were developed by the AAMC, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Learn about the competencies these experts say medical students need to thrive in residency.
Upcoming Events
Call for Submissions: Academic Medicine Letters to the Editor
The AAMC peer-reviewed journal Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for its annual Letters to the Editor feature. Trainees in medicine, other health professions, and the biomedical sciences are encouraged to submit letters on the topic of “the moment I knew” — a pivotal moment in one’s professional life. The deadline for submissions is Monday, May 19.
How to Get Started with Faculty Development on AI – May 22
Curious how to successfully plan and execute faculty development around AI? In this session, facilitators from the AAMC Group on Education Affairs (GEA) pull back the curtain on how to design and implement impactful AI faculty development in medical education. Attendees will walk away with tangible AI faculty development tips and tricks and learn about ways to engage in upcoming GEA-hosted virtual faculty development.
About the VSLO Program
The AAMC Visiting Student Learning Opportunities™ (VSLO®) program enables medical and public health students to pursue short-term learning opportunities in locations away from their Home institutions.
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