AAMC Report Educating Doctors to Provide High Quality Medical Care July 2004, 14 Pages Medical education in the U.S. must undergo significant change in order to better prepare physicians for the nation’s rapidly evolving health care needs, according to this report by a panel of medical school deans convened by the AAMC. This report identifies strategies for improving medical education including medical school, residency and continuing medical education and is the work of the AAMC’s Institute for the Improvement of Medical Education (IIME) that was created in 2002 to foster innovations in medical education.
AAMC Sullivan Commission Report This report focuses on strategies for increasing the diversity of the healthcare workforce with the ultimate goal of reducing health care disparities.
AAMC Sullivan Commission Report and Video and Transcript The Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce releases its report, Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions, which provides detailed recommendations on how to increase the representation of minorities in the nation’s medical, dental and nursing workforce.Â
AAMC Report on Millennium Conferences I & II This is a summary report of two successive conferences (2001 & 2002) conducted by the AAMC. Themes resulting from the conferences were centered around three major foci in medical education; those being: 1. What to teach, 2. How to teach, and 3.Who teaches. Themes discussed included: competency based curricula, performance assessment, integration of orphan topics, curricular oversight, design of clinical experiences, importance of resident teaching, and rewarding of teaching. Familiarization with the content of these two conferences is a must for the up-to-date medical educator.
