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Snow can't stop them: Medical students head to the Hill

For the second Medical Student Advocacy Day in a row, a snow storm that shut down Washington, D.C. didn’t deter more than 150 medical students from descending on Capitol Hill to ask Congress for new and innovative ways to fund graduate medical education.

GME Funding
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New road map calls for a better, stronger GME system

Citing the need for a comprehensive and sustained effort to strengthen graduate medical education (GME), the Association of American Medical Colleges released its five-year road map to optimize GME.

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AMA applauds Congress for efforts to modernize graduate med education

The AMA continues to urge support for increasing the number of medical residency slots and health care access to underserved areas.

Press Releases
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Duty-hour limits have no effect on patient outcomes: New studies

The 2011 limits placed on resident duty hours appear to have had no effect on patient deaths, patient outcomes or residents' examination performance, according to two studies published this month in JAMA.

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2014's top moments in medical education

The past year was jam-packed with major events in medical education. Take a look back at six news-making medical education topics.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Med ed gets evaluated in special JAMA issue

A special theme issue of JAMA focuses on important topics in the continuum of medical education, including health care spending, resident duty hours and maintenance of certification (MOC).

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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The history of residency—and what lies ahead

Residency was not the only option for all medical school graduates, Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD, an internist, medical educator and historian of medicine, said during a recent presentation at the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Medical school graduates could take different pathways to become physicians, including apprenticeships or studying outside of the country.

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Residents: How would you transform GME?

Now that the consortium of schools in the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are making transformative improvements to undergraduate medical education (UME), it’s time to move onto graduate medical education (GME)—and input from residents is crucial to the process.

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Hot topics that could affect how residents practice medicine

More than 500 physicians, residents and medical students will meet this week in Dallas to weigh new AMA policy that will affect both the medical profession and the patients they serve.

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