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Student interest in informatics outpaces opportunities: Study

A study looked at interest in training for clinical informatics—the study of health information and data to improve patient care. It found that medical students’ interest in learning more about health care data outpaces the number of opportunities to do so.

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How students are affecting med ed transformation

Medical educators have recognized the need to transform medical education, and many schools are working on innovative ideas for medical student training. Student input helped the University of Michigan medical school understand what changes are realistic.

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How med schools are going beyond clinical training

Faculty at the 11 schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative shared their thoughts on the changes their schools are making to go beyond clinical training and the results they hope to achieve.

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The medical school of the future: A year of groundbreaking work

The path to preparing the ideal future physician is becoming clearer after a year of developing and implementing innovative ideas for training medical students. Take a look back at how the AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative made strides toward creating the medical school of the future.

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Teaching future physicians how to best use technology

I spent a few days last week at the University of Texas at Austin, where in 2016 a brand new medical school will open. As an educator, I’m excited by this opportunity. As a proponent of effective health IT, I see this as a promising view of the future of health care.

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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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How medical schools are redefining the basic sciences

Physicians must have strong foundations in both basic sciences—including cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacology and physiology—and clinical sciences, which means mastering a large body of knowledge. What do tomorrow’s physicians need to know to treat patients in the future?

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Real-time tracker puts education decisions into students' hands

The Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine's REDEI system (Research and Evaluation Data for Educational Improvement) will let medical students, their coaches and school leaders immediately input and track evaluation information, displaying a snapshot of each student’s performance in real time.

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How health IT is giving med students real-world experience

A new “teaching electronic health record” (tEHR) from Indiana University School of Medicine will give medical students a chance to learn clinical decision-making and system-based care using real data.

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