AMA convenes medical education innovators for national conference

 Fresh off the heels of announcing a major expansion to its Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative aimed at transforming medical education, the American Medical Association (AMA) today kicked off ChangeMedEd 2015—bringing together hundreds of the world’s most notable leaders and innovators in medical education to further generate new ideas to reimagine the medical school of the future.

“We’ve made notable progress over the past two years to reshape medical education so that the way physicians are trained meets the needs of patients in the 21st century and the advancements in medical science and in the delivery of care,” said AMA President Steven J. Stack. “By growing the community of innovation that we’ve cultivated among some of the nation’s leading medical schools, we’re one step closer to closing the gaps that currently exist between the way physicians are educated and how health care will be delivered in our rapidly changing health care environment.”