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AAMC Reporter: November 2009

In the News

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick

Innovation, Reform are Annual Meeting Imperatives
As the House voted to approve health care reform legislation, leaders of the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals discussed academic medicine's place in a post-reform landscape during the AAMC's 2009 Annual Meeting in Boston, Nov. 6-11.


Medical School Enrollment Increases To Meet Growing Physician Demand
U.S. medical schools continued to expand enrollment this year to meet the increasing demand for more doctors, according to new AAMC data.


Overview: The LCME: How a Medical School Is Born
A look at the process that U.S. medical schools go through before they can educate physicians


Economy Takes Toll on Charity Care

Economy Takes Toll on Charity Care
In the midst of a debilitating recession, teaching hospitals are under more pressure than ever to balance the needs of their uninsured patients against increasingly thin operating margins.



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AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D.

A Word from the President
'First, Do No Harm' - The Journey to Patient Safety


Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.

Viewpoint
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Its Promise, Its Future
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

 


Physician's Band Shares Hope Through Music

The Back Page
Physician's Band Shares Hope Through Music



The Print Issue

  • Training to Meet the Unique Challenges of Rural Medicine
  • Academic Medical Centers: An Endangered Species?
  • Do-It-Yourself Technology Stretches to Personal Health Management
  • Academic Medicine Urges Sustained Momentum in NIH Funding

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The AAMC Reporter (ISSN 1544-0540), the association's flagship news publication, covers major programs and initiatives at the AAMC and member institutions, as well as the broader issues that affect the academic medical community. Each month, the AAMC Reporter informs the academic medicine community with articles on conferences and meetings addressing critical issues; enlightens with timely features on topics as diverse as medical student community service, women's health education, and affirmative action; notifies constituents of upcoming AAMC events; and alerts readers to future shifts in the ever-changing medical education and health care environments through analytical articles written by experts in the field. Subscribe now.

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