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3 ways technology is changing medical education

As part of the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative, a number of medical schools have developed leading-edge technologies that could be implemented on a wider scale and begin to transform medical education.

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The medical school of the future: A year of groundbreaking work

The path to preparing the ideal future physician is becoming clearer after a year of developing and implementing innovative ideas for training medical students. Take a look back at how the AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative made strides toward creating the medical school of the future.

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Real-time tracker puts education decisions into students' hands

The Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine's REDEI system (Research and Evaluation Data for Educational Improvement) will let medical students, their coaches and school leaders immediately input and track evaluation information, displaying a snapshot of each student’s performance in real time.

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What medical schools can expect in the future

A special consortium of medical schools has spent the last year developing and implementing innovative ideas to transform the way future physicians are trained, and soon the medical education environment will experience the benefits of their efforts. In January 2013, the AMA announced its intent to fund five to 10 medical schools to implement bold innovations in medical education.

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Why physicians should admit what they don't know: TEDMED 2014

On the first day of TEDMED, the annual health and medicine edition of TED, transformative thinkers encouraged listeners to question current knowledge. Instead of putting imagination on trial, Jay Walker, curator and chairman of TEDMED, urged listeners to embrace new ideas.

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Harvard symposium explores how to take med ed into the future

About 200 academic physicians discussed the role of technology in medical education during the Harvard Macy Institute (HMI) 20th Anniversary Symposium last week in Boston, sharing ideas for transformational learning in the face of a changing health care system.

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Where med schools are headed: 12 months of innovations

In the year since the AMA announced the participants in its unprecedented initiative to transform medical education and create new ways to train future physicians, there has been tremendous progress and consensus on new ideas.

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Why training adaptive learners will be essential to med ed

Preparing future physicians for careers in the constantly changing health care system requires more than clinical skills—faculty must help medical students develop skills in adaptive learning, too. Medical schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are devising ways to incorporate lifelong learning into undergraduate medical education curriculum.

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