Online education plus real-life experience

Ease the burden of integrating emerging topics and enhancing support for your medical students with the AMA UME Resource Program.

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Hitting the road for rotations? How you can thrive during aways

Away rotations are a part of some medical students’ final year. Find out whether they should be part of your path and how to make the most of them.

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Succeeding in Medical School
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What forms your identity? It’s key to coaching diverse med ed learners

Find out how to open doors as an academic coach with medical students, residents and fellows who come from all walks of life to serve patients.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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4 things new M1s should know about the 1st year of medical school

Who better to offer advice to incoming M1s than an MD-PhD student who just completed his first year? Learn more with the AMA.

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Shaping tomorrow's leaders

See how consortium schools are integrating leadership and teamwork training into curricula that will prepare today's medical students to become future leaders.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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4 things to know before you start clinical rotations

As many medical students prepare to begin clinical rotations, here is a look at some advice from those who came before them.

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Your medical school may offer coaching. Is it effective?

Ever more schools and residency programs are adopting academic coaching. New tools from the AMA help ensure that coaching is done right.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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In pandemic’s 3rd year, medical educators also feel strains

The AMA is outlining the steps needed to support overburdened faculty members and ensure that medical education rebounds from COVID-19’s disruptions.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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How diversity’s power can help overcome the physician shortage

There aren’t enough doctors to care for aging patients and not enough physicians who mirror the nation’s diversity. Learn how the two are connected.

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Preparing physician leaders at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Learn about the Primary Care–Population Medicine Program at Brown University (PC-PM), the first of its kind, and how it prepares students to be “clinicians plus."

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