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Plan, do, study, act: For these M3s, it means helping patients

A plan-do-study-act cycle can help uncover opportunities for care improvement and Vanderbilt M3s are helping to run them. Learn more with the AMA.

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These medical students are not waiting to make their impact felt

Reaching those without homes and those awash in misinformation, medical students around the country were honored for innovative projects.

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Transforming transition to residency at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Learn about the NYU Transition to Residency Advantage program, which aims to improve the transition from medical school to postgraduate medical education.

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M1s help spot emergency patients who can benefit from naloxone

Learn how first-year medical students can add value and learn about addiction medicine by screening patients to ID those at risk of an opioid-related overdose.

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How medical students spearheaded an entrepreneurship curriculum

Students at a New Jersey medical school wanted to learn about innovation in medicine so they introduce their own curriculum on the topic.

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Sanjay Desai, MD, discusses medical education innovation and more

In this special edition of Voices from the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, the AMA speaks with Sanjay Desai, MD, AMA chief academic officer.

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How virtual OSCE smoothed residency transition after COVID-19

Learn how five medical schools came together to adapt an in-person objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) to a purely virtual format.

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At NYU, coaching helps medical students’ move to residency

Learn with the AMA how pairing graduating students with coaches from residency faculty can smooth the transition and produce better, happier doctors.

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Medical schools ponder move to shorter pre-clerkship curriculum

More medical schools are shortening their pre-clerkship learning time. Educators examined the pros and cons of that sort of curriculum overhaul.

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