ChangeMedEd®: The next innovation phase has begun
In support of our work to catalyze innovation in medical education, the American Medical Association’s efforts and focus have entered an important new phase. We have formed groundwork teams, issued Innovation Grants and identified select innovation sites to tackle the AMA’s new priorities in competency-based medical education; the transition; precision education; competency-based medical education; the transition; precision education; and workforce development.
These institutions are the latest cohort of members of the ChangeMedEd® Consortium, formerly referred to as the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. The new consortium exists to develop, implement and disseminate bold, innovative projects that promote systemic change in medical education to benefit and better train future physicians to succeed in our rapidly evolving health care system.
ChangeMedEd Groundwork teams
In 2023, under the leadership of Sanjay Desai, MD, MACP, group vice president and chief academic officer, the American Medical Association placed a new level of strategic focus on four high-priority areas in medical education:
- Competency-based medical education (CBME)
- Transitions across the continuum
- Equity, diversity and belonging
- Precision education
Consistent with this new focus, the AMA selected two groundwork teams in spring 2023 to develop tools and strategies and pilot innovations at their respective sites. These new groundwork teams’ efforts will center on developing health systems science assessment in clinical environments to support the development of CBME and on coaching for competency development to support better transitions across the continuum.
Each groundwork team consists of eight U.S. medical schools along with select AMA Reimagining Residency initiative projects and subject matter experts. These partners will collectively develop innovations in their subject areas and pilot them at their local institutions over a two-year period, 2023–2025. Below are the medical schools selected to work with the new ChangeMedEd groundwork teams.
Health systems science in clinical environments groundwork team
- Carle Illinois College of Medicine
- CUNY School of Medicine
- Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
- Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
- Indiana University School of Medicine
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- University of Utah School of Medicine
- Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Coaching for competency development groundwork team
- Harvard Medical School
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- University of Michigan Medical School
- University of Washington School of Medicine
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
AMA ChangeMedEd Innovation Grant Program
The AMA ChangeMedEd Innovation Grant Program supports novel experiments while building a community of practice within the AMA ChangeMedEd Consortium. Inter-institutional collaborative projects will be particularly competitive. Applications from undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education and practice settings are welcome.
The institutions selected for this program receive a $25,000 one-year grant and join the AMA ChangeMedEd Consortium that is committed to developing, implementing and disseminating bold, innovative projects that promote systemic change to better train future physicians.
The 2025-2026 Innovation Grant Program submission deadline has closed. Notification of the awards will be made in fall 2025.
AMA Innovation Grant Program: 2024-2025
This past year’s recipients focused on coaching in medical education across the medical education continuum—from medical school and residency to continuing medical education.
Grant recipients:
American Academy of Family Physicians
AAFP Residency Program Solutions Coaching Initiative
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Scalable Artificial Intelligence Solutions to Support Clinical Coaching: The Reflective Clinician Mobile Application
Hackensack University Medical Center
Thriving Together: Enhancing Professional Development and Wellness in Ob/Gyn Residency Through Longitudinal Group Coaching
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
A Coaching-centered Observed Structured Teaching Exercise (C-OSTE) to Optimize Coaches’ Competency in Undergraduate Medical Education
Stanford University School of Medicine
Impact of Longitudinal Residency Coaching on Physicians' Professional Identity as Master Adaptive Learners: A Multi-Specialty Study
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
AI Coaching Conversations in Medical Education: Utilizing Fuzzy Metrics to Evaluate the Competency Development of an AI-powered Agent
University of Florida COM Jacksonville
Coach(Me)d an interactive coaching app to promote adaptive expertise for UME, GME, and CME
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Evaluation of an Indigenous Approach to Professional Identity Formation through Coaching
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Technology-Enhanced Longitudinal Adaptive Screening and Virtual Coaching to Navigate Mental Health and Wellbeing for Medical Students
University of Miami
Exploring the Role of an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Coach in Supporting the Goal Attainment, Academic Achievement, and Well-Being of Medical Students
University of Minnesota
An Evaluation of an Individualized Coaching Program on Trainee Performance, Well-Being, and Professional Identity Formation
University of Vermont Medical Center
Incorporating Coaching in the Moment and Coaching Overtime to support EPA-based assessment in Pathology Residency Training.
University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health
Supporting Trainees and Adapting to Residency (STAR) Coaching Program
Past Innovation Grant recipients
View the full list (PDF) of 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018 recipients.
Innovation sites: 2024-2027
The AMA is pleased to announce new AMA ChangeMedEd® innovation sites. These 10 institutions join the ChangeMedEd Consortium in recognition of their work in key AMA initiatives, such as health systems science, competency based medical education including the master adaptive learner and coaching, precision education and more.
The sites will be working on a variety of innovations: operationalizing competency-based medical education; integrating clinical and education data; optimizing the transformative care continuum; sex and gender minority training; preparing trainees to transition to practice and more.
We are proud to work with teams from these institutions:
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science
- Ohio Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
- The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
- The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
- Pritzker School of Medicine at The University of Chicago
- University of Nebraska College of Medicine
- University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Learn more
If you are interested in learning more about ChangeMedEd, please visit changemeded.org.
If you are looking for more information about the AMA’s “Reimagining Residency” initiative, please visit changeresed.org.
