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What medical schools can expect in the future

A special consortium of medical schools has spent the last year developing and implementing innovative ideas to transform the way future physicians are trained, and soon the medical education environment will experience the benefits of their efforts. In January 2013, the AMA announced its intent to fund five to 10 medical schools to implement bold innovations in medical education.

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Real clinical data gives medical students new perspectives

Medical students now can use real clinical data to examine patient populations and the value of health care with new, free tools from New York University School of Medicine.

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How playing games can change medicine's future

In the health care system of tomorrow, physicians and patients will be playing many more games, according to some speakers with innovative ideas at TEDMED 2014, which took place last month in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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How one medical school created a “student GPS”

At Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, a new program is tracking where and how students learn, gathering data on a variety of metrics to provide students with a real-time snapshot of their progress through medical school.

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Physicians share insights into how med schools are changing

Take a closer look at unique programs medical schools across the country are testing with first-person perspectives from academic physicians on cutting-edge programs at their schools. Faculty at the 11 schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are sharing their thoughts on the changes their schools are making, the challenges they’re overcoming and the results they hope to achieve.

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Why physicians should admit what they don't know: TEDMED 2014

On the first day of TEDMED, the annual health and medicine edition of TED, transformative thinkers encouraged listeners to question current knowledge. Instead of putting imagination on trial, Jay Walker, curator and chairman of TEDMED, urged listeners to embrace new ideas.

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How two schools are embracing a new science in medical education

Most of the 11 schools that received grants in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are investigating how to teach systems-based practice, a blanket term that can cover systems of care, quality improvement, population health and other competencies that would fall under the science of health care delivery.

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Why faculty development is crucial to med ed innovation

Academic physicians and faculty across the country are innovating new ways to teach the physicians of tomorrow, but first, the trainers must become the trainees.

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What physicians need to make better use of technology

How can tomorrow’s physicians integrate technology into their practice beyond simply using electronic health records (EHR)? One medical school outlined exactly how physicians of the future can be adept at making technology work for them.

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