AMA advances initiative to create medical school of future

As part of its ongoing effort to develop bold, innovative ways to improve physician training that can be implemented in other medical schools, the American Medical Association (AMA) is expanding upon its work to ensure future physicians are prepared to care for patients in the rapidly changing health care landscape. The AMA, along with Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, convened its 32 school Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium in Scottsdale, Ariz. this week to further the innovative efforts underway to reshape medical education across the country.

The inaugural class of medical students at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine’s new Scottsdale campus will soon enter a new era of medical school thanks in part to the innovative curriculum models being developed by the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. As part of the grant it received in 2013 to work with the Consortium, Mayo created a new four-year longitudinal course with health system leaders to prepare students to practice within and lead patient-centered, community-oriented collaborative care teams to deliver high-value care. Medical students at its Rochester, Minn. campus are currently among the first in the nation to be studying high-value care—and students at its Scottsdale campus will soon begin classes—including the new Science of Health Care Delivery curriculum.