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Medical students: How to keep learning as COVID-19 volunteers

AMA webinar provides real-world examples of ways medical students can help patients while continuing to build competencies during the outbreak, sometimes for credit.

Medical Student Health
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COVID-19: States call on early medical school grads to bolster workforce

With overloaded health systems and overworked physicians, some states are graduating medical students early to help fight COVID-19.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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AMA announces next phase of national effort to reimagine med education

AMA announces next phase of Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium as part of ongoing effort aimed at transforming medical education nationwide.

Press Releases
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Free medical school tuition at NYU marks bold step

The future of American health care depends greatly on attracting the best and the brightest minds to medicine.

Preparing for Medical School
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Why medical schools are building 3-year programs

Physician shortages and mounting student-loan debt are encouraging the growth of three-year medical school programs.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Taking the time element out of the move from UME to GME

A nascent program aims to allow med students to matriculate to residency when they demonstrate expertise not when the calendar deems them graduates.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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9 challenges medical educators want to solve right now

Faculty and students from more than 110 medical institutions discussed the future of physician education last week at the AMA’s CHANGEMEDED conference. Check out the topics that ranked on this med ed agenda to determine whether any align with special initiatives at your school.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Creating the impossible: Key innovations, solutions in med ed

AMA’s CHANGEMEDED conference covered new ideas, technologies and breakthrough innovations poised to transform future physician training. Here’s a roundup of the best highlights and themes from the conference.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Here's how students in a combined BA-MD program really perform

Do students in accelerated BA-MD programs perform any better or worse than their peers in traditional med ed programs? A new study of 2,583 students in Academic Medicine provides an answer and helps illuminate an important innovation in medical education.

Preparing for Medical School