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- 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 (see
http://www.aamc.org/meded/iime/start.htm)
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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.
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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.
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Ambulatory Based Clinical Education:
Flexner Revisited by Michael Whitcomb in the February issue
of Academic Medicine
This is a 1.5 page editorial in which Dr.
Whitcomb provides clarification of the Flexner report relative
to the importance and place of ambulatory based educational
experiences. This editorial supports the FSUCOM clinical
education model.
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Functions and Structure of a Medical School
(LCME Standards, June 2008)
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