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.

Learn More
Person studying in front of a laptop
Clear Search
·
3 Min Read

How playing games can change medicine's future

In the health care system of tomorrow, physicians and patients will be playing many more games, according to some speakers with innovative ideas at TEDMED 2014, which took place last month in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
·
3 Min Read

How one medical school created a “student GPS”

At Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, a new program is tracking where and how students learn, gathering data on a variety of metrics to provide students with a real-time snapshot of their progress through medical school.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
·
3 Min Read

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.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
·
2 Min Read

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.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
·
2 Min Read

Tomorrow’s doctors should question the status quo: TEDMED 2014

If physicians are going to lead health care changes, they’ll need to take unconventional approaches, ask a lot of questions and support innovation, speakers emphasized at TEDMED 2014.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
·
3 Min Read

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.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
·
2 Min Read

Video: How to manage and embrace the future of medicine

From his unique position to learn about groundbreaking research, Dr. Bauchner walks physicians through what’s to come in the future—and how to manage changes in preparing for that care in an AMA “Innovations in Medicine” talk.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
·
4 Min Read

How two schools are embracing a new science in medical education

Most of the 11 schools that received grants in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are investigating how to teach systems-based practice, a blanket term that can cover systems of care, quality improvement, population health and other competencies that would fall under the science of health care delivery.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
·
2 Min Read

Gender, grading systems shape medical students' views

The AMA-sponsored Learning Environment Study, which collected data and insights on the medical student experience throughout the four years of medical school, found that both men and women showed an overall decline in attitudes toward empathy from their first to second year of school.

Medical School Diversity