Online education plus real-life experience

Ease the burden of integrating emerging topics and enhancing support for your medical students with the AMA UME Resource Program.

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Map image with hotspot over Chapel Hill.
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Hotspotting gives med students insight on vulnerable patients

Interprofessional student teams at the University of North Carolina are working to advocate on behalf of the sickest patients.

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Yao Liu, a third-year medical student at Brown.
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Students use design thinking to fix broken care processes

Collaboration between medical and design students helps identify system issues that can be improved.

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Luan Lawson, MD
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Students learn health system as whole, C-suite to parking lot

East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine program goes beyond classroom to create a generation of leaders in health systems science.

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Sacramento medical students leave the clinic to treat the homeless
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Sacramento medical students leave the clinic to treat the homeless

UC Davis med students are working to bridge the gap in health care to homeless individuals by bringing the clinic to them.

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Portrait of David B. Nash, MD
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Population health should be major focus in remaking med ed

Population-health expert David Nash, MD, says it is time for medical schools to help “retool the factory floor for the future.”

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Physician treats young patient in makeshift clinic.
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Going beyond clinic’s 4 walls to address health’s social roots

Addressing health’s social determinants means confronting the reality that a patient’s health is not treated exclusively within an office setting.

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Population health management makes its way to med school

A better understanding of data and the social determinants of health can help tomorrow’s physicians improve health at the community level.

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Patient safety culture should start in medical school

A new textbook helps physicians-in-training understand how systems can contribute to medical errors and how to handle such incidents and near misses.

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Virtual families offer med students new twist on case studies

Award-winning tool lets Virginia students interact with diverse patient stories to better appreciate the barriers real patients face.

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