AMA adopts policies to advance its strategic efforts

The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted new policies today to further its strategic efforts to close the gaps that exist between how medical students are trained to deliver high-quality care and improve outcomes in the changing health care environment.

Building on the AMA’s innovative Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative to create the medical school of the future, the new policy calls for the creation of leadership programs and new curricula that emphasize experiential and active learning models that include knowledge, skills and management techniques integral to leading interprofessional team care. The policy also calls for all medical students to receive this leadership training early in their medical education.