General medical education: Council on Medical Education reports & issue briefs

The Council on Medical Education reviews and recommends policies to the AMA House of Delegates for medical and allied health education.

Council on Medical Education reports may not be reproduced without express written permission.

2023

• Ensuring Equity in Interview Processes for Entry to Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education (PDF) CME Report 3-I-23
• Leave Policies for Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, and Physicians (PDF) CME Report 1-I-23
• Management and Leadership Training in Medical Education (PDF) CME Report 7-A-23
• Financing Medical Education (PDF) CME Report 2-A-23 (Resolution 306-A-22) 

• Investigation of Existing Barriers for Osteopathic Medical Students Applying for Away Rotations (PDF) CME Report 5-N-21
• Rural Health Physician Workforce Disparities (PDF) CME Report 3-N-21
• A Study to Evaluate Barriers to Medical Education for Trainees with Disabilities (PDF) CME Report 2-N-21
• Guiding Principles and Appropriate Criteria for Assessing the Competency of Physicians Across the Professional Continuum (PDF) CME Report 01-N-21
• Promising Practices Among Pathway Programs to Increase Diversity in Medicine (PDF) CME Report 5-JUN-21
• Optimizing Match Outcomes (PDF) CME Report 3-JUN-21

• Preparedness for Pandemics Across the Medical Education Continuum (PDF) CME report 4-NOV-20

• The Transition from Undergraduate Medical Education to Graduate Medical Education (PDF) CME Report 5-I-19
• For-Profit Medical Schools or Colleges (PDF) CME report 1-I-19
• For-Profit Medical Schools or Colleges (PDF) CME Report 7-A-19
• Study of Medical Student, Resident, and Physician Suicide (PDF) CME Report 6-A-19 (Resolution 959-I-18)
• Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium Outcomes (PDF) CME Report 5-A-19
• Standardizing the Residency Match System and Timeline (CME Report 6-A-17) (PDF) CME Report 3-A-19
• Protecting Medical Trainees from Hazardous Exposure (PDF) CME/CSAPH Joint Report 1-A-19 (Resolution 301-A-18)

• Study of Medical Student, Resident and Physician Suicide (PDF) CME Report 8-I-18
• Developing Physician-Led Public Health/Population Health Capacity in Rural Communities (PDF) CME Report 3-I-18
• Review of AMA Educational Offerings (PDF) CME Report 2-I-18

• Expansion of Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PDF) CME Report 7-A-17
• Standardizing the Allopathic Residency Match System and Timeline (PDF) CME Report 6-A-17 (Resolution 310-A-16)
• Options for Unmatched Medical Students (PDF) CME Report 5-A-17
• Sex and Gender Based Medicine in Clinical Education: An Annotated Bibliography (PDF) (Resolution 958-I17)

• Telemedicine in Medical Education (PDF) CME Report 6-A-16 (Resolution 330-A-15)
• Addressing the Increasing Number of Unmatched Medical Students (PDF) CME Report 3-A-16
• Access to Confidential Health Services for Medical Students and Physicians (PDF) CME Report 1-I-16 (Resolutions 901-I-15, 913-I-15, and 304-A-16)

• Enhancing the AMA’s Role in Premedical Education (PDF) CME Report 7-A-15
• Guidelines for Students Shadowing Physicians (PDF) CME Report 4-A-15 (Resolutions 310-A-13 and 913-I-13)

• Competency-based Medical Education Across the Continuum of Education and Practice (PDF) CME Report 3-A-14
• Annual Report of AMA Medical Education Activities (PDF) CME Report 1-A-14

• Curricula for Pain Education (PDF) CME Report 6-A-13 (Resolution 325-A-12)
• Annual Report of AMA Medical Education Activities: 2012 (PDF) CME Report 1-A-13

• Transparency in the National Resident Matching Program Match Agreement (PDF) CME Report 12-A-12 (Resolution 918-I-11, Resolve 2)
• Annual Report on AMA Medical Education Activities: 2011 (PDF) CME Report 1-A-12

• Medical Education issue brief: Alleviating the impact of political debates on medical education (PDF)
• Medical Education issue brief: Defining "rural" for the physician workforce (PDF)
• Medical Education issue brief: The role of supervision and in assessment of physician competency (PDF)
• Medical Education issue brief: Precision education (PDF)
• Medical Education issue brief: Sex and gender in medical education (PDF)

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