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Medical Education

Make the AAMC your medical education home. Explore what we have to offer, from learning events, trainings, and professional development conferences to programs, initiatives, and scholarship on key and emerging topics. Get involved, advance your career, and help move the field of medical education forward.

Areas of Focus

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Medical Education
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Education

AI is changing medical education. The AAMC is bringing together the academic medicine community and sharing best practices to ensure all are equipped to respond to this important technological advancement.

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Medical Education
Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME)

The AAMC has been a leader in CBME for more than two decades and continues to support the development, implementation, and assessment of new competencies.

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Medical Education
Collaborative Transformation of the Transition to Residency

With services and programs that span the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education, the AAMC is partnering with stakeholders across the community to improve this critical transition for learners, medical schools, and residency programs.

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Medical Education
Scholarship and Scholar Development

Scholarship drives the practice of medical education forward. The AAMC supports the dissemination of key scholarship through its journals and meetings and the professional development of researchers and scholars as they grow in their careers.

Additional Initiatives and Programs

Admissions and Student Affairs Programs and Resources

Connect with Colleagues

The AAMC convenes affinity groups, programs, and virtual communities that provide individuals at member institutions access to professional and leadership development, networking, and collaboration opportunities. Learn more about getting involved.

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Affinity Groups
Group on Educational Affairs (GEA)

The GEA advances medical education and educators through faculty and curriculum development, scholarship, research, and assessment.

Affinity Groups
Group on Student Affairs (GSA)

GSA convenes leaders in medical school admissions, student affairs, diversity affairs, financial aid and student records to address key student services issues.

Affinity Groups
Group on Information Resources (GIR)

The GIR promotes the use of IT and information resources in academic medicine across all of the missions and the institutional level.

Medical Education
MedBiquitous: AAMC’s Standards Development Program

The MedBiquitous Program establishes a common language, understood by both people and machines, that enables data- and resource-sharing across organizations in health professions education and credentialing.

Medical Education
AAMC Communities

Engage with colleagues through discussion threads around timely questions and topics of interest and find and share useful resources. Communities include AI; Arts and Humanities; Climate Action; Curriculum; and Staff Professionals Across the Continuum.

Develop as a Scholar and Share Your Scholarship

Attend an Event

The AAMC is committed to providing learning opportunities for faculty and professional staff across medical education. Learn more about these webinars, meetings, and other learning events.

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Conference/Meeting
Learn Serve Lead 2026: The AAMC Annual Meeting

Learn Serve Lead is the AAMC’s premier annual gathering, where forward-thinking dialogue, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing fuel innovation and drive transformation in health, health care, and education.

Anaheim Calif.
Nov. 6 - 10, 2026

Listen to the “Academic Medicine Podcast"

Go beyond the pages of Academic Medicine with stories and conversations to expand your thinking about the issues shaping medical schools and teaching hospitals today. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Episode transcripts are also available.

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