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Healthy population equals healthy economy

I attended the H20, an international health summit hosted by the World Medical Association. Without a healthy, productive citizenship, a country can’t be economically stable. Addressing the social determinants of health is crucial to building a strong economic foundation, and eliminating health disparities is something we physicians should continue to work toward.

Public Health Advocacy
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What the newest medical class looks like

More students are going to medical school than ever before. The number of students who enrolled in U.S. allopathic medical schools for the first time in 2014 reached a new high of 20,343, and the total number of medical school applicants also rose to a record 49,480.

Medical School Diversity
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What future doctors need to know about health determinants

Tomorrow’s doctors are learning more about socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation and other social determinants of health. Physicians nationwide support integrating more training on the social determinants of health into undergraduate medical education—they voted to make it AMA policy at the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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How med schools are tackling challenges in health disparities

A Google Hangout featuring academic physicians and students Monday took a close look at how medical schools are taking on two huge challenges: addressing health disparities and focusing on diversity in how they train physicians.

Medical School Diversity
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Culturally competent physicians can reduce disparities

I wrote about what physicians are doing to tackle health care disparities. One of the ways we can reduce health care disparities is to ensure we’re promoting diversity in the health care workforce. Diversity and cultural competency are aspects of physician training that some of the schools awarded grants from the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are working on.

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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.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Learn what med schools are doing to increase diversity

What are the most important factors in attracting a medical student body that reflects a diverse patient population? Join the online Google Hangout to listen, watch and share ideas.

Medical School Diversity
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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
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Diverse physician voices can improve nation's health

One of my recent stops in my busy traveling schedule as AMA president was Charlotte, North Carolina, where I had been invited to participate in the 12th annual Diversity Symposium hosted by Carolinas HealthCare System.

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