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How schools, students are transforming med ed—and now you can too

If you could launch your dream project to better prepare medical students for practice, what would it be? From overhauling curriculums to launching new training projects, these the founding members of the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, are completely transforming the way future physicians are trained—and now they’re ready to expand.

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University tackles team-based care across health care schools

When real-life patients present, their ailments often require treatment from a team of experts beyond physicians. Medical schools are building new programs to teach students the skills of collaboration and team care that lead to improved patient care outcomes.

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How students are affecting med ed transformation

Medical educators have recognized the need to transform medical education, and many schools are working on innovative ideas for medical student training. Student input helped the University of Michigan medical school understand what changes are realistic.

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How med schools are going beyond clinical training

Faculty at the 11 schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative shared their thoughts on the changes their schools are making to go beyond clinical training and the results they hope to achieve.

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How these med students transformed their summer

Medical students at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences spent their summer vacation in a unique situation: delivering care to more than 600 patients in León, Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in Latin America.

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Making the case for interprofessional education

Addressing the AMA Section on Medical Schools during the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting, Lesley Bainbridge, PhD, director of interprofessional education (IPE) for the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia, made the case for team-based care.

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How med schools are preparing students for team-based care

Medical residents today must demonstrate that they can successfully participate as contributing members of interprofessional teams, so medical schools are working through barriers to incorporate interprofessional education (IPE) into their curricula to give students a firm grounding when they begin providing care.

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