"The AAMC Center for Workforce Studies administered the eighth annual survey of medical school enrollment plans to the deans of the 134 U.S. medical schools that were LCME-accredited or preliminarily accredited in early fall 2011."
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Association of American Medical Colleges
May 2012
Institute for Alternative Futures
March 2012
"IAF's approach to understanding and creating the future calls for communities and organizations to identify what they think is likely and more importantly what they prefer. This report presents a unique look at the potential for improving population health along with analysis and recommendations to help health care providers and communities work toward their preferred future."
Association of American Medical Colleges
March 2012
"Now completing its 12th year, Project Medical Education is a proven tool for educating policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public about the important role medical schools and teaching hospitals play in our nation’s health care system."
Georgia Board for Physician Workforce
February 2012
"Achieving an optimal supply, specialty mix, and distribution of physicians involves many challenges. The state has invested considerable resources to expand undergraduate medical education (medical school enrollment). However, expanding medical school enrollment alone will not meet Georgia’s need for physicians. The state must also engage in a coordinated effort to add residency training (graduate medical education or GME) positions in needed specialties."
GME Initiative
December 2011
"The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Initiative is a voluntary, collaborative “grassroots” endeavor of individuals representing health care consumers and leaders in Family Medicine Residency Training from 10 states and the District of Columbia. The GME Initiative strives to explore and advocate for reforms in the training of primary care physicians in order to meet the country’s current and anticipated health care needs."
AMA MedEd Update
December 2011
"Several states and regions are seeking creative solutions to expand GME programs to meet their growing physician workforce needs. GME leaders nationwide shared some of these innovations at the November 4 meeting of the AMA Section on Medical Schools in Denver."
The Journal of the American Medical Association (Review)
October 12, 2011
"In the second edition of his Achieving Excellence in Medical Education, author Richard Gunderman tells readers that the purpose of the new edition is to serve as the catalyst for reflection on excellence in medical education."
Tags: Medical Students
National Health Policy Forum
September 14, 2011
"As a precondition to board certification and independent practice, about 111,000 medical school graduates are currently enrolled in post-doctoral training programs requiring three or more years of additional study. Accreditation and oversight of these graduate medical education (GME) programs rest largely with professional organizations, while financial management and decision-making about program size and specialties are the responsibility of hospitals and other program sponsors."
The Commonwealth Fund
September 13, 2011
"In April 2010, the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VA) embarked on an ambitious three-year plan to build patient-centered medical homes in more than 900 primary care clinics across the nation. Its model organizes care around an interdisciplinary team of providers who work together to increase access and clinical effectiveness by identifying and removing barriers to high-quality care. To build the teams, the VA allocated more than $227 million to hire additional clinical staff and instituted a nationwide training program that is supplemented by provider participation in regional learning collaboratives."
Tags: Health Centers, Medical Home
TrippUmbach
June 2011
"In December 2010, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) retained TrippUmbach to measure the economic impact of the potential reduction in IME payments to the AAMC’s Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH) on the 43 individual states (and the District of Columbia) in which they are located, as well as the nation as a whole."
Tags: Medicare/Medicaid
Association of American Medical Colleges
June 2011
"The AAMC Center for Workforce Studies administered the seventh annual survey of medical school enrollment plans to the deans of 133 LCME-accredited or preliminarily accredited U.S. medical schools during the fall of 2010.3 An e-mail introduction to the survey was sent, followed by a link to the Web-based survey itself. Follow-up reminder e-mails were sent to deans who did not initially respond. Of the schools surveyed, 127 (95%) responded, with information provided by the dean of the medical school or their designated appointee, most often an associate dean."
Association of American Medical Colleges
May 4, 2011
Association of American Medical Colleges
May 2011
"The MR5 Committee’s 14 preliminary recommendations for the content and format of the new exam preserve what works best about the current MCAT® exam, eliminate what does not, and enrich the exam by giving attention to concepts that future physicians are likely to need—using a testing format that already has proven to be successful."
Annals of Internal Medicine
December 6, 2010
"Recent efforts to improve medical education include adopting a new framework based on 6 broad competencies defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In this article, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force II examines the advantages and challenges of a competency-based educational framework for medical residents."
The Lancet
December 4, 2010
"Redesign of professional health education is necessary and timely, in view of the opportunities for mutual learning and joint solutions offered by global interdependence due to acceleration of flows of knowledge, technologies, and financing across borders, and the migration of both professionals and patients. What is clearly needed is a thorough and authoritative re-examination of health professional education, matching the ambitious work of a century ago."
National Health Policy Forum
July 22, 2010
"Medicare's physician fee schedule distributes nearly $60 billion annually and is a critical determinant of individual physicians' incomes, beneficiaries' access to health care services, and Medicare spending, as well as the basis for physician fees used by many private payers. This issue brief reviews the data used in the fee schedule, including the new, multispecialty practice expense survey, and the role of the American Medical Association/ Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee."
Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative
July 2010
Government Accountability Office
June 2010
"Little is known about IMGs with respect to how much they borrow overall, or the outcome of their medical studies, leading some policy makers to question the federal return on investment in IMGs. Therefore, Congress mandated that GAO study the performance of IMGs educated at these schools and other aspects of a foreign medical education, including the potential effect of the new 75 percent pass rate requirement on school participation in the federal loan program."
Association of American Medical Colleges
June 2010
John Wiley & Sons
June 2010
"Commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching -- the same group that sponsored Abraham Flexner's early-20th century examination of all 155 medical schools in the United States and Canada -- the new report lays out the case for drastic recosideration of how North American medical education works. It calls for major change and innovation - 'new approaches to shaping the minds, hands and hearts of physicians."
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