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AMA convenes consortium to advance medical education
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The AMA is currently meeting with is Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium "to further the innovative efforts underway to reshape medical education across the country," the organization announced in a press release.
The AMA launched the initiative in 2013 and has awarded $12.5 million to the 32 medical schools in the consortium for the development of medical school curricula that can be used in schools across the country.
"The AMA has been working with some of the nation’s leading innovators in medical education over the past several years to create the medical school of the future — incorporating the newest technologies, health care reforms and scientific discoveries that continue to alter what physicians need to know to practice in the modern health care system,” Steven J. Stack, MD, AMA President, said in the release. “As we now continue this work with nearly triple the number of medical schools, we will be able to more quickly bring about the type of significant change that our medical education system needs so that our future physicians can better care for their patients.”
The AMA convened the meeting in conjunction with Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Using a $1 million grant from the AMA, Penn State launched its Systems Navigation Curriculum in August 2014, and several schools in the consortium are now planning to implement similar programs.
Penn State’s new curriculum ensures that students receive education on health systems science by having first-year medical students work as patient navigators at clinical sites.
“The work we’re doing together with these 32 medical schools will directly impact the way that health care will soon be delivered to patients nationwide,” Susan E. Skochelak, MD, MPH, AMA Group Vice President for Medical Education, said in the release. “We will continue to collaborate with even more medical schools, medical education innovators and students to ensure we are taking the right steps to prepare tomorrow’s physicians to be equipped to quickly adapt to the changing health care landscape and make a significant impact on the way health care is delivered in this country.”