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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 to teach medical students to “feel” like physicians

Forming a professional identity is a crucial part of the medical education process, but not an easy one to define, teach or measure. Faculty from 11 med schools discussed curricula that will help students form a professional identity and “feel” like a physician.

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Emerging med ed technology offers look at the future

Representatives from innovative medical education technology companies demonstrated new tools that could change the way future physicians are taught as part of a special meeting at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Real-time tracker puts education decisions into students' hands

The Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine's REDEI system (Research and Evaluation Data for Educational Improvement) will let medical students, their coaches and school leaders immediately input and track evaluation information, displaying a snapshot of each student’s performance in real time.

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Real clinical data gives medical students new perspectives

Medical students now can use real clinical data to examine patient populations and the value of health care with new, free tools from New York University School of Medicine.

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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.

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