840 results match your criteria: "Association of American Medical Colleges.[Affiliation]"
JAMA Cardiol
August 2020
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.
The novel coronavirus pandemic has set in high relief the entrenched health, social, racial, political, and economic inequities within American society as the incidence of severe morbidity and mortality from the disease caused by the virus appears to be much greater in black and other racial/ethnic minority populations, within homeless and incarcerated populations, and in lower-income communities in general. The reality is that the United States is ill equipped to realize health equity in prevention and control efforts for any type of health outcome, including an infectious disease pandemic. In this article, the authors address an important question: When new waves of the current pandemic emerge, or another novel pandemic emerges, how can the United States be better prepared and also ensure a rapid response that reduces rather than exacerbates social and health inequities? The authors argue for a health equity framework to pandemic preparedness that is grounded in meaningful community engagement and that, while recognizing the fundamental causes of social and health inequity, has a clear focus on upstream and midstream preparedness and downstream rapid response efforts that put social and health equity at the forefront.
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June 2020
Senior director, Strategy and Innovation Development, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0100-5893.
Acad Med
December 2020
J.K. Carney is professor of medicine and associate dean for public health and health policy, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
The COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented challenge for this generation of physicians and for the health care system, has reawakened calls to strengthen the United States' public health systems. This global event is also a "learnable moment" for medical education-an opportunity to decisively incorporate public health, including public health systems, through the continuum of medical education. Although medical educators have made progress in integrating public health content into medical curricula, "public health" is not a phrase that is consistently used in curricular standards, and public health colleagues are not identified as unique and critical partners to improve and protect health.
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August 2020
Section on Medical Neuroendocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Cardiac paraganglioma (PGL) is a rare neuroendocrine tumour causing significant morbidity primarily due to norepinephrine secretion potentially causing severe hypertension, palpitations, lethal tachyarrhythmias, stroke and syncope. Cardiologists are faced with two clinical scenarios. The first is the elevated norepinephrine, whose actions must be properly counteracted by adrenoceptor blockade to avoid catastrophic consequences.
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April 2021
R. McKinney is chief scientific officer, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1918-954X .
Purpose: To determine if specialty, among other professional development and demographic variables, predicted MD-PhD program graduates' research engagement.
Method: The authors merged the 2015 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) National MD-PhD Program Outcomes Survey database with selected data from the AAMC Student Records System, Graduation Questionnaire, and Graduate Medical Education (GME) Track Resident Survey. At the person level, they tested variables of interest for independent associations with MD-PhD graduates' research engagement using chi-square, Pearson correlations, and analysis of variance tests and logistic and linear regressions.
N Engl J Med
August 2020
From the National Academy of Medicine (V.J.D.), the NAM Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience (V.J.D., D.K., T.N.), and the Association of American Medical Colleges (D.K.) - all in Washington, DC; and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago (T.N.).
Acad Med
September 2020
A.J. Whelan is chief medical education officer, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC.
In this Invited Commentary, the author considers the February 2020 announcement that scoring on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 will change to pass/fail no sooner than January 2022 and its effects on the transition to residency process in the context of both the recommendations of the Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring (InCUS) held in March 2019 and the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. The author suggests that the medical education community must embrace any positive changes that come about as a result of the pandemic while continuing to systematically review the strengths and areas for improvement in the current transition to residency process.In its recommendations, InCUS provided a thoughtful set of action priorities and an effective process to work together, which can inform and guide the work ahead.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Gastrointest Surg
June 2020
Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, 600 Moye Boulevard, Greenville, NC, 27834, USA.
EClinicalMedicine
March 2020
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA 02114 (181 Newton Street, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: Sexual harassment of women in academic medicine may impede advancement and productivity. This study analyzes the longitudinal effects of sexual harassment on academic advancement and productivity among women.
Methods: We undertook a longitudinal analysis to predict effects of sexual harassment reported in 1995 on career outcomes measured in 2012-13, among a sample of women in academic medicine ( = 1273) recruited from 24 U.
Am J Pharm Educ
January 2020
University of North Carolina, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
To identify key themes of interprofessional models of care that offer experiential education opportunities for pharmacy learners. Six pharmacists from four Area Health Education Centers in North Carolina participated in individual, 60-minute interviews. Using two pre-established frameworks, the data were analyzed qualitatively by two members of the research team to identify the characteristics of interdisciplinary care teams.
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December 2020
P.F. Buckley is interim senior vice president, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health Sciences, interim chief executive officer, VCU Health System, and dean, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia.
Purpose: To determine the outcomes of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Council of Deans (COD) Fellowship Program with respect to participants' achieving the goals of becoming a medical school dean and developing leadership skills, and to ascertain fellows' views about the program's value, beneficial aspects, and areas for improvement.
Method: The 37 COD fellows from 2002 to 2016 were invited to participate in a 2017 survey addressing demographics, training, current leadership position, and value of the program. The survey also included 3 open-ended questions.
Acad Med
April 2020
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean, Weill Cornell Medicine, and provost for medical affairs, Cornell University, New York, New York; Senior director, Academic Affairs Programs and Engagement, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC. Chief academic officer, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC.
J Gen Intern Med
April 2020
Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, USA.
Background: There have been no large-scale studies to date of patients' experiences with electronic consultation (eConsult) between primary and specialty care.
Objective: Compare experiences with eConsult and referral for in-person specialist consultation.
Design: Online survey 2-6 weeks following eConsult or referral at 9 US academic medical centers.
J Healthc Leadersh
January 2020
University of Utah School of Medicine, Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Purpose: This study seeks to identify the characteristics and attitudes of faculty in US medical colleges who are at risk of leaving their institution.
Methods: This research leverages data from the AAMC StandPoint Faculty Engagement Survey administered to 37,779 faculty representing 36 institutions participating during 2013-2016. Univariate and multivariable robust logistic regression models were used to assess predictors of the intent to leave based on the question: "Do you plan to leave this medical school in the next 1-2 years?".
Acad Med
April 2020
J.M. Orlowski is chief health care officer, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC. T. Thompson is senior specialist, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC.
Despite the number of hospital closures over the past decade, the June 2019 announcement of the closing of Hahnemann University Hospital (HUH) in downtown Philadelphia has greatly impacted the academic medicine community. Several factors contributed to the collapse of the hospital; however, the operational approach throughout the period leading up to and during the hospital's closing left faculty, students, and especially residents with many questions as they scrambled to determine how to continue their careers. This Invited Commentary examines factors that contributed to the crisis following the hospital's closure, such as the influence of HUH's ownership history and the complicated landscape of graduate medical education, and discusses the lessons that can be learned from this cataclysmic event.
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January 2020
Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC
Health Aff (Millwood)
December 2019
Julie Phillips is assistant dean for student career and professional development in the Office of Student Affairs and Services, Michigan State University; and an associate professor at the Sparrow-Michigan State University Family Medicine Residency Program, in Lansing.
Growing up in a rural setting is a strong predictor of future rural practice for physicians. This study reports on the fifteen-year decline in the number of rural medical students, culminating in rural students' representing less than 5 percent of all incoming medical students in 2017. Furthermore, students from underrepresented racial/ethnic minority groups in medicine (URM) with rural backgrounds made up less than 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Teach
March 2020
Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Innovations in education are essential for solving problems and introducing new ways of thinking. However, implementation of these innovations must take several factors into consideration, including the context, the environment, the stakeholders, the technology needed, the cost, the pace of implementation, appropriateness, and available resources. When these factors are not balanced and considered, tensions arise.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth Equity
November 2019
Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, District of Columbia.
Language concordance between patients and physicians is an important factor in providing safe and effective health care, with Spanish as the predominant and fastest growing non-English language in the United Sates. However, despite increasing demand for medical Spanish education, valid concerns about inadvertently increasing provider use of limited Spanish with patients, lack of knowledge of best practice in education and assessment, and lack of institutional support still present barriers to medical Spanish education in medical schools. The authors conducted a narrative review of existing literature that evaluates the link between medical Spanish education of physicians and language concordance.
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March 2020
M.E. Whitcomb is former senior vice president of medical education, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC.
No new MD-granting medical schools were established during the 1980s and 1990s due to concerns that existed within the academic and policymaking communities that the United States was going to experience a major oversupply of physicians in the coming decades due to the increase that had occurred in medical school enrollment in the 1960s and 1970s. However, the results of studies conducted in the 1990s suggested that the country was actually going to experience a major shortage of physicians in the coming decades. As a result, new medical schools began to be established in the country after the turn of the 21st century.
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