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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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Med schools preparing students for rapid changes

How can medical schools train today’s students to be prepared? Physician educators tackled this question during a special consortium meeting at Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville, where the 11 medical school recipients of AMA grants discussed how the changes they’re making are preparing tomorrow’s physicians for the rapid changes to come.

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Physicians share insights into how med schools are changing

Take a closer look at unique programs medical schools across the country are testing with first-person perspectives from academic physicians on cutting-edge programs at their schools. Faculty at the 11 schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are sharing their thoughts on the changes their schools are making, the challenges they’re overcoming and the results they hope to achieve.

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Medical educators examine century-old problem at Harvard event

Today’s medical students—and tomorrow’s physicians—have a vast amount of information available to them, and teaching them to sort through the good information and use it appropriately is a challenge medical educators are working to solve.

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Project gets underway to ensure sustainable med school innovations

By applying principles of business organizational change to medical schools, faculty at some of the schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Education consortium are seeking to measure schools’ readiness for change and ways to ensure changes can be maintained over time.

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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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Virtual patients, online games and real-time EHRs: The new med ed

As health care moves into the era of the supercomputer and electronic health records medical education is incorporating health information technology, virtual patients and more innovative learning methods into their curricula. Some of these ideas were shared at a consortium meeting for schools that received grants through the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative.

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Ushering in a new approach to medical education

When I look back, I marvel at how poorly my educational experiences of 30 years ago would have prepared me for the actualities of medical practice today.

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"We think this is the tipping point"—A year of accelerating change in medical education

A year after its launch, the AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative has exceeded expectations in leading partnerships to transform medical education.

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