Leaders from the nation’s medical school and teaching hospital communities joined the AAMC on Capitol Hill Tuesday to unveil Best Practices for Better Care (BPBC), a multiyear campaign designed to improve the quality and safety of health care. “Over the last century, the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals have pioneered techniques and treatments that have set the standard of care for the nation and the world,” said AAMC Chief Health Care Officer Joanne M.
University of Kentucky medical students, faculty, staff and friends of Robert Straus, Ph.D., gathered together for this years charity roast, hosted by the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Class of 2012, in February at the Crowne Plaza Hotels Campbell House. Straus, one of the UK College of Medicines founding fathers, was this years honoree
A new report, issued by an expert committee convened by the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), for the first time defines scientific competencies for future medical school graduates and for undergraduate students who want to pursue a career in medicine.
The AP/Houston Chronicle on Tuesday examined how the expansion plans of medical schools at several U.S. universities “are rushing ahead despite the severe economic downturn.” Existing medical schools are “[r]esponding to warnings of a looming doctor shortage” by raising their enrollment rates while new schools are opening or already under development, the AP/Chronicle reports. The number of medical schools approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education this year to train physicians is expected to increase by four to 130, while five other schools that have plans to enroll students in the next two years have submitted accreditation applications
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement today on the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s new report, “Revisiting the Medical School Mission at a Time of Expansion”: “Representatives of the AAMC were pleased to be a part of the important dialogue that resulted in this new report on medical schools in the 21st century
Request for Nominations The deadline for receipt of nominations is May 1, 2009. These awards consist of five scholarships given to outstanding students entering their third year of medical school who have shown leadership in efforts to eliminate inequities in medical education and health care and demonstrated leadership efforts in addressing educational, societal, and health care needs of minorities in the United States
2009 Award for Distinguished Research Request for Nominations The Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences honors outstanding biomedical research related to health and disease. The research recognized should have contributed to the substance of medicine. The AAMC has awarded a prize in this arena, in partnership with various sponsors, since 1947.
Request for Nominations The Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education is granted annually to an individual for extraordinary contributions to the medical education community. The award was first presented by the Association in 1958 and is the AAMC’s most prestigious honor
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