Committee on Medical Education

• About the Committee
• Issues and Resources
• Get Involved

About the Committee

The MSS Committee on Medical Education (CME) functions as think-tank for the AMA-MSS on issues relating to medical education. We remain informed on the latest trends emerging in the field of medical education, and relay those issues to the Governing Council and the MSS Assembly. In addition to developing reports and resolutions on important medical education issues, our committee works closely with the AMA medical student representatives to various committees such as the LCME, NBME, and CME, as well as the MSS Assembly.

Meet your 2007-2008 Committee on Medical Education

Contact your Committee on Medical Education

• Committee Chair - Heidi Hullinger
• Committee Vice Chair - Jaime Kearns

Vision
The AMA-MSS Committee on Medical Education strives to refine the current medical education system to promote superior quality healthcare practices, patient-oriented healthcare, and lifelong physician professional medical development.

2007- 2008 MSS Committee on Medical Education goals
To better serve the AMA-MSS, our committee has set the following goals for the upcoming year:

• Work closely with the student ITME representative and the MSS General Assembly to ensure that the student perspective on medical education is adequately addressed in the initiative.  Deliver a report to the ITME leaders expressing the student voice and opinion about the ITME issues from students across the MSS.
• Continue to monitor the Clinical Skills Assessment Exam (CSAE) and encourage members to complete the CSAE survey.  Take action on the recent findings of the assessment that is conducted in late summer, early fall 2007.
• Work closely with the NBME student representative and the MSS General Assembly to develop criteria for the implementation of new USMLE exams and the meaning of current exams.
  • Work with the Government Relations Advocacy Fellow (GRAF) to ensure implementation of AMA student dept policy.
• Complete Reports of interest to MSS Governing Council and MSS General Assembly:
  • Enhancing Interprofessional Clinical Training
  • Develop a Standardized Medical Liability Coverage Requirement
  • Student Voice on ITME Issues
• Develop interactive programming at the Interim and Annual Meetings to provide members with updates of current medical education issues. Address student-derived issues acquired From A-07/I-07 Med Ed Survey and ongoing inputs.
• Stimulate chapters to develop medical education resolutions at the AMA-MSS Interim and Annual Meetings.

Current Committee Activities
We hope that you are as excited as we are about the upcoming year. It has been an extremely active time for the AMA-MSS and the Committee on Medical Education. Our major focus has been on key issues including the Initiative to Transform Medical Education (ITME), clinical skills assessment exam (CSAE), and other medical licensing exams, and medical student debt. As medical students at perhaps the most important phase of our medical training, it is important that we become proactive about shaping the direction of medical education.

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Issues and Resources

Medical Education Issue Briefs
The Committee on Medical Education has prepared a number of issue briefs to provide medical students with information about the most important issues pertaining to medical education.  Please contact us with any suggestions for future issue brief topics. 

• Initiative to Transform Medical Education (PDF, 45KB)
• Clinical Skills Assessment Exam (PDF, 38KB)
• National Board of Medical Examiners (PDF, 36KB)

Medical Education Reports
At the request of the MSS Governing Council, the Committee on Medical Education has written a number of reports on various issues pertaining to medical education.  The following reports were approved by the MSS Assembly at the 2007 MSS Annual Meeting.  Reports can be found in the 2007 MSS Annual Meeting handbook (PDF, 1035KB) at the pages annotated below.

• Changing the Culture of Health Care Delivery: Encouragement of Teamwork Among Health Care Professional Students (GC Report A, page 82)
• Solutions to Tackling the Increasing Cost of Medical Education (GC Report G, page 130)
• Communication and Clinical Teaching Curricula (GC Report B, page 93)
• Patient Safety Curriculum (GC Report C, page 99)

Medical Education Links
The Committee has compiled a list of Web sites to serve as an informational resource on medical education issues.

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Get Involved

We encourage you to get involved with our committee. If you have concerns about the future of medical education, ideas for programming, need more information about a specific issue, have any questions regarding medical education issues or programming, please contact us. We look forward to providing you with the information you need about key medical education issues and hearing what you have to say those issues.

Medical Education Surveys
You can make a difference in medical education right now!  There are several surveys that we are conducting to solicit the voice of the MSS.  These surveys will be posted soon.

• Clinical Skills Assessment Exam Survey
• Initiative to Transform Medical Education Survey
• Interprofessional Education Survey
• Cost of Medical Education Survey

Chapter Activities
There are many things you can do to get your chapter involved in medical education issues:

• Educate your chapter on the Initiative to Transform Medical Education (ITME)
  • ITME update (Word, 60KB) presented at the 2006 MSS Interim Meeting
  • Informational background article published in the New England Journal of Medicine
• Ask your chapter membership complete the medical eduation surveys outlined above.

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Meet CME

Medical Education Links of Interest