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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.

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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.

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New care curriculum paves way for advanced student learning

The 2015 class of students at the University of Michigan Medical School will experience learning in a completely different way from their predecessors. Here’s the latest on the new curriculum and how the school plans to immerse students in health care systems, illuminating the patient experience starting in the students’ first semester.

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How new med students are diving into health care delivery science

Experiential learning has advanced to new heights with a unique intensive program that allows up to 10 medical students from each class to dive into the principles of patient safety, quality improvement, population health and team-based care.

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What's at stake in nutrition education during med school

While physicians encourage patients to make healthy food choices, only 27 percent of med schools offer the recommended 25 hours of nutritional education. Improving health outcomes may require physicians in training to move from the classroom to the kitchen.

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New “third science” a bedrock for transforming med ed

Medicine historically has prioritized basic and clinical sciences as the core for medical school curriculum, but an emerging “third science”, health care delivery science, can transform the future of medical education. Health policy, economics, the use of evidence-based medicine and team work are really important new areas of study.

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What students wish they were learning in med school

At a recent meeting of the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative, a panel of medical students discussed what they hoped to learn to prepare them for their future careers. ...

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New “core science” could prep med students for health care changes

For medical students of the future, one day there could be a new science on their Step 1 exams. The work AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative has helped push the need for health care delivery science.

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What future doctors need to know about health determinants

Tomorrow’s doctors are learning more about socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation and other social determinants of health. Physicians nationwide support integrating more training on the social determinants of health into undergraduate medical education—they voted to make it AMA policy at the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting.

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