ChangeMedEd®: Our next innovation phase
In support of our work to catalyze innovation in medical education, the American Medical Association’s efforts and focus have entered an important phase. We have formed groundwork teams and identified select innovation sites to tackle the AMA’s priorities in competency-based medical education, academic coaching, health systems science, precision education, transition from UME to GME, 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.
We have also awarded Innovation Grants and Bright Ideas Showcase Grants. The recipients of these will form their own one-year community of practice.
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
- Medical education and work
- 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 $30,000 one-year grant and will join a community of institutions dedicated to developing, implementing, and disseminating bold projects that drive systemic change. This year’s grant program will join a one-year community of practice that includes Bright Ideas Showcase grant recipients from the recent ChangeMedEd2025 conference.
AMA Innovation Grant Program: 2025-2026
This year’s recipients will focus on Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) and its intersections with other AMA priority areas, including:
- Artificial intelligence in developing new assessments
- Promoting educational equity through CBME
- Coaching to support competency development
- Developing master adaptive learners
- Clinical assessment of health systems science
- Sharing competency data across institutions
Grant recipients:
MedStar Health Research Institute, Inc.
Establishing Trust with Racially Minoritized Communities
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
C-Suite: Reimagining Coaching with Intelligent, Integrated Feedback Systems
Regents of the University of California (UCSF)
Improving Faculty-to-Trainee Feedback via a Generative AI Coach
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Prompt, Appraise, Proceed: Building Clinical Judgment for Artificial Intelligence
Past Innovation Grant recipients
View the full list (PDF) of 2024, 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
Bright Ideas Showcase Grant
With the ChangeMedEd® 2025 Bright Ideas Showcase, the AMA solicited cutting-edge ideas that harness the power of AI to transform medical education, including but not limited to:
- The integration of AI into curriculum design and educational research
- Using AI to enhance the process of evaluating students’ learning and performance
- Types and functionalities of AI assistants for faculty and/or learners
- Learner interaction with AI applications to health care
- Overcoming ethical challenges in AI for medical education
- Training learners to critically incorporate AI tools into care of patients
These reflected applicants’ aspirations for the future:
“Everybody finds this difficult, but with the right tool...”, “We’ve never solved this problem, but now....”, “If only this were different...”, “We keep talking about this issue; let’s do this to address it...”.
Selected ideas were presented during ChangeMedEd® 2025. Through a multi-step process, attendees selected three Bright Ideas, each of which were awarded a $20,000 grant to support further development. These grant recipients will join a one-year community of practice that includes the 2025 ChangeMedEd Innovation Grant Program recipients.
Bright Ideas Showcase recipients:
Creighton University School of Medicine-Phoenix
ALTHEA, the AI nurse that simulates pages for medical students to practice on-call communication
UNC Chapel Hill, School of Medicine
AI-Assisted Grading and Feedback for Case-Based Medical Exams
University of Michigan
Continuity reimagined: Longitudinal learning with AI-driven patients
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.
