ChangeMedEd®: Groundwork teams, Innovation Grants and sites

In support of our work to catalyze innovation in medical education, the American Medical Association’s efforts and focus have entered an important new phase. We have formed groundwork teams, issued Innovation Grants and identified select innovation sites to tackle the AMA’s new priorities in competency-based medical education; the transition; precision education; and equity, diversity and belonging.

These institutions are the latest cohort of members of the ChangeMedEd® Consortium, formerly referred to as the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. The new consortium exists to develop, implement and disseminate bold, innovative projects that promote systemic change in medical education to benefit and better train future physicians to succeed in our rapidly evolving health care system.

In 2023, under the leadership of Sanjay Desai, MD, group vice president and chief academic officer, the American Medical Association placed a new level of strategic focus on four high-priority areas in medical education:

• Competency-based medical education (CBME)
• Transitions across the continuum
• Equity, diversity and belonging
• Precision education

Consistent with this new focus, the AMA selected two groundwork teams in spring 2023 to develop tools and strategies and pilot innovations at their respective sites. These new groundwork teams’ efforts will center on developing health systems science assessment in clinical environments to support the development of CBME and on coaching for competency development to support better transitions across the continuum.

Each groundwork team consists of eight U.S. medical schools along with select AMA Reimagining Residency initiative projects and subject matter experts. These partners will collectively develop innovations in their subject areas and pilot them at their local institutions over a two-year period, 2023–2025. Below are the medical schools selected to work with the new ChangeMedEd groundwork teams.

Health systems science in clinical environments groundwork team

• Carle Illinois College of Medicine 
• CUNY School of Medicine 
• Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine 
• Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California 
• Indiana University School of Medicine 
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 
• University of Utah School of Medicine 
• Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine 

Coaching for competency development groundwork team  

• Harvard Medical School 
• Morehouse School of Medicine 
• Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 
• University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine 
• University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 
• University of Michigan Medical School 
• University of Washington School of Medicine 
• Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

The AMA ChangeMedEd Innovation Grant Program supports novel experiments while building a community of practice within the AMA ChangeMedEd Consortium. Inter-institutional collaborative projects will be particularly competitive. Applications from undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education and practice settings are welcome.  

The institutions selected for this program receive a $25,000 one-year grant and join the AMA ChangeMedEd Consortium that is committed to developing, implementing and disseminating bold, innovative projects that promote systemic change to better train future physicians. 

The 2024-2025 Innovation Grant Program submission deadline has closed. Notification of the awards will be made in Fall 2024. 

This past year’s recipients focused on the application of precision education across the medical education continuum—from medical school and residency to continuing medical education.

Grant recipients: 

• California University of Science and Medicine

• Adaptive learning in medical education: An AI-powered approach to personalized performance feedback for clinical skills and EPA achievement

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania

• Intelligent tutor: A novel precision education solution to ensure optimal training and performance in radiology

• Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

• Precision well-being in medical education

• Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

• Natural language processing methods to identify key terms in history gathering and physical examination based on patients notes written by medical students

• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

• Identifying student-specific electronic health record-derived measures (STEMs): An exploration of learning analytics to foster student growth in a longitudinal outpatient primary care setting

• Oregon Health and Science University

• Development of a taxonomy for precision medical education

• The Wright Center

• The Wright Center graduate medical education safety-net consortium

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

• Transition to practice: Precision education for hospitalists

• UCI School of Medicine

• Adaptive learning in medical education: An AI-powered approach to personalized performance feedback for clinical skills and EPA achievement

• University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix

• GME programs as master adaptive learners: Using artificial intelligence enabled precision education and GME program milestones to power improvement of GME programs

• University of Colorado School of Medicine

• Identifying disparities in clinical grading to promote equity: A multi-institutional study

• University of Virginia School of Medicine

• Competency-based medical education with precision: An integrated, data-driven, learner-centered model to support student advancement

• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

• From logging to learning: A precision education learner engagement tool to enhance master adaptive learning by clerkship students

• Wayne State University School of Medicine

• Precision evaluation: A student to resident growth chart in demonstrated competencies and skills

View the full list (PDF) of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018 recipients.

The AMA is pleased to announce new AMA ChangeMedEd® innovation sites. These 10 institutions join the ChangeMedEd Consortium in recognition of their work in key AMA initiatives, such as health systems science, competency based medical education including the master adaptive learner and coaching, precision education and more. 

The sites will be working on a variety of innovations: operationalizing competency-based medical education; integrating clinical and education data; optimizing the transformative care continuum; sex and gender minority training; preparing trainees to transition to practice and more.   

We are proud to work with teams from these institutions: 

• Emory University School of Medicine 
• Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science 
• Ohio Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 
• Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 
• The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University 
• The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University 
• Pritzker School of Medicine at The University of Chicago 
• University of Nebraska College of Medicine 
• University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences 
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 

If you are interested in learning more about ChangeMedEd, please visit changemeded.org.

If you are looking for more information about the AMA’s “Reimagining Residency” initiative, please visit changeresed.org.