About the Council on Medical Education
The Council on Medical Education (CME) formulates policy on medical education by recommending educational policies to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates, through the AMA Board of Trustees. The Council is also responsible for recommending the appointments of representatives to accrediting bodies and to other national organizations.
The AMA's Initiative to Transform Medical Education (ITME) is designed for major stakeholders interested in promoting excellence in patient care by reforming the current medical education and training system.
Results and recommendations of the Initiative to Transform Medical Education are contained in the following summary (PDF, 311KB).
The CME responsibilities include the following:
- The study and evaluation of all aspects of medical education, including ensuring that there is an adequate continuing supply of well-qualified physicians to meet the medical needs of the public;
- The review and recommendation of policies for medical education;
- The consideration and recommendation of the means and methods whereby physicians may be assisted in maintaining their professional competence and the development of means and criteria for recognition of such achievement; and
- The responsibility that the AMA remains an accredited sponsor of continuing medical education.
To contact the Council on Medical Education please e-mail: daniel.winship@ama-assn.org
Council on Medical Education accepting nominations
The AMA Council on Medical Education is accepting nominations for positions on Residency Review Committees and American medical specialty boards.
Guide to Good Medical Practice - USA
Council members
Information about the members of the Council on Medical Education.
Provide feedback on the maintenance of licensure process of the Federation of State Medical Boards
Industry support of professional education in medicine
Initiative to Transform Medical Education
Bylaws
Council on Medical Education Bylaws.
Dates in the history of the AMA Council on Medical Education
View the history of Medical Education and the AMA Council on Medical Education
Rules and regulations
Offers information on the Council's Rules and Regulations
BOT liaisons
Information on the AMA Board of Trustee member of the Council on Medical Education.
AMA Council on Medical Education subcommittees and task forces
Subcommittees and task forces established for the Council on Medical Education
Liaison Committee for Specialty Boards
Essentials for approval of new specialties and information about the LCSB.
The Fifth Pathway Program
An avenue to licensure in the U.S. available to students who complete four years of study at an international medical school that requires an additional year of supervised clinical work at one of two U.S. medical schools.
Board of Trustee report considered at the 2008 annual meeting of the House of Delegates
Implications of the Medical Home - Model for Medical Education
Resolutions considered by Reference Committee C at the 2008 annual meeting of the House of Delegates
