AMA awards medical schools grant to change education: 5 takeaways

The American Medical Association is giving 20 new medical schools a grant of $75,000 each over a three year period to redesign medical education, according to premed life.

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Here are five takeaways:

1. The AMA selected the 20 schools from 170 medical schools through a competitive grant process.

2. The AMA launched the Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative in 2013 to address the gaps in how medical school students are trained.

3. The initiative also seeks to address the gaps in how providers deliver healthcare.

4. Currently, 31 medical schools are participating in the initiative.

5. Harvard Medical school launched a project, Pathways Curriculum, which created “master adaptive learners,” who work to embrace uncertainty.

“Together, the 31 schools will collectively work to quickly identify and widely share the best models for educational change to ensure future physicians are prepared for a lifetime of learning, to lead a team of professionals in delivering care and to explore innovative ways to care for patients, populations and communities in the evolving health care system,” said Susan E. Skochelak, MD, MPH, AMA group vice president for medical education.

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