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New and Developing
Medical Schools: Motivating Factors, Major Challenges, Planning
Strategies new!
(October 2009)
This new report written by Michael E. Whitcomb, M.D.,
addresses the challenges that exist for institutions planning to
establish a new medical school. During the report he explores
how these institutions responded to the situations. Whitcomb
uses the Florida State University's College of Medicine as a
case study. Published by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
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AAMC-HHMI Committee Report: Scientific Foundations for Future
Physicians
(June 2009)
A new report, issued by an expert committee convened by the AAMC
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), for the first
time defines scientific competencies for future medical school
graduates and for undergraduate students who want to pursue a
career in medicine. (You can view the full report
here.)
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Revisiting the Medical School Educational Mission at a Time of
Expansion
(October 2008)
Published by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, this conference
summary focuses on the goals and expectations of Medical School
expansion, including discussions of confronting the challenge of
modernizing medical education and educating physicians in the 21st
century. This report also targets problems of medical student
debt and the lack of diversity in school admissions.
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Functions and Structure of a Medical School
(June 2008)
This report focuses on the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Standards
for a Medical School.
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Advancing Educators and Education: Defining the Components and
Evidence of Educational Scholarship
new!
(2007)
This report addresses important information and issues related
to the legitimization of the scholarship of teaching. The
information is a summary report from AAMC Group on Educational
Affairs Consensus Conference on the topic of Educational
Scholarship.
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Ambulatory Based Clinical Education:
Flexner Revisited
(Feburary 2006)
Written by Michael Whitcomb
This is an editorial in which Dr.
Whitcomb provides clarification of the Flexner report relative
to the importance and place of ambulatory based educational
experiences. This editorial supports the FSUCOM clinical
education model.
Featured in Academic Medicine, Issue: Volume 81(2), pp
105-106.
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AAMC Sullivan Commission Report
(September 2004)
This report focuses on strategies for increasing the diversity
of the healthcare workforce with the ultimate goal of reducing
health care disparities.
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AAMC
Report Educating Doctors to Provide High Quality Medical Care
(July 2004)
Medical education in the U.S. must undergo significant change in
order to better prepare physicians for the nation's rapidly
evolving health care needs, according to this report by a panel
of medical school deans convened by the AAMC. This report
identifies strategies for improving medical education including
medical school, residency, and continuing medical education and
is the work of the AAMC's Institute for the Improvement of
Medical Education (IIME) that was created in 2002 to foster
innovations in medical education.
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AAMC Report on Millennium Conferences I & II
(2001-2002)
This is a summary report of two successive conferences (2001 &
2002) conducted by the AAMC. Themes resulting from the
conferences were centered around three major foci in medical
education; those being: 1. What to teach, 2. How to teach, and
3.Who teaches. Themes discussed included: competency based
curricula, performance assessment, integration of orphan topics,
curricular oversight, design of clinical experiences, importance
of resident teaching, and rewarding of teaching.
Familiarization with the content of these two conferences is a
must for the up-to-date medical educator.
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