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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At Loyola, virtual training boosts BP-measurement skills

The COVID-19 pandemic made virtual learning a fixture of medical education. An online training module from the AMA can help ensure it’s effective.

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What new AAMC competency requirements mean for medical students

Medical students are expected to demonstrate skills related to diversity, equity and inclusion before entering residency. Here’s how they can do it.

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High court shouldn’t impede efforts to diversify medical schools

The AMA, AAMC and many other organizations urge the Supreme Court to keep allowing consideration of race, ethnicity in medical school admissions.

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Competency-based innovations at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Learn how the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine is evolving competency-based tools across the medical education continuum.

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Academic coaches in medical school can spur competency-based med ed

Coaches aren’t mentors. They also aren’t advisers or counselors. Their contributions are lifelong and focused on building competencies.

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Enhancing the medical education continuum at the University of North Carolina

Explore innovations at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine to enhance and optimize the continuum from medical school to residency.

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How to help medical educators further stretched by COVID-19

The pandemic has demonstrated how fragile the U.S. medical education system is. Learn with the AMA how to support those who keep it running.

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Making technology work for learning

See how the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium schools adapt technology in new ways to solve key problems and advance physician training.

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Gay, lesbian and bi medical students report worse emotional climate

Gay, lesbian and bisexual medical students report less favorable perceptions of their learning environments, with a link to more burnout. Learn more.

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