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AAMC Applauds Congress for Extending Medicaid Moratorium
Congress has passed legislation to prohibit any regulatory action on Medicaid funding for graduate medical education until April 1, 2009. (June 27, 2008)

AAMC Thanks Senate Committee for NIH Funding Increase
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a $1.025 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (June 27, 2008)

AAMC Names New Chief Academic Officer
Dr. John E. Prescott, former dean of the West Virginia University School of Medicine, will lead the AAMC's efforts to improve the education and training of new physicians. (June 27, 2008)

AAMC Calls for Strict Limits on Industry Support of Medical Education
The Executive Council has approved a new AAMC report that will help guide medical schools in adopting policies to limit industry influence on medical education. (June 19, 2008)

AAMC President Says Many Factors To Be Considered in Assessing Physician Workforce
In a new commentary in JAMA, AAMC President and CEO Darrell Kirch, M.D., says addressing physician workforce supply is a complex issue. (June 10, 2008)

AAMC Applauds Bill to Disclose Industry Payments to Doctors
The AAMC has endorsed the Senate-proposed, amended version of the "Physician Payments Sunshine Act." (May 20, 2008)

Medical School Enrollment Projected to Rise
An annual survey on medical school expansion indicates that first-year enrollment in U.S. medical schools is estimated to grow 21 percent (3,400 students per year) by 2012. (May 1, 2008)

AAMC Adopts Position on "Medical Home" System of Care
The AAMC has adopted a formal position on the "medical home" model of health care delivery, which provides patients with a coordinated, comprehensive approach to primary care. (March 25, 2008)

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Frequently Requested Resources

2008 Match
More than 15,000 U.S. medical school seniors applied for residency positions through the NRMP this year, and 94 percent of them matched to a program of their choice—the most successful Match in 30 years.

Analysis in Brief: Challenges and Strategies of Medical School Expansion (PDF, 2 pages)
Medical school administrators face many obstacles throughout their expansion efforts—including a lack of faculty resources, financial resources, and classroom and training space—but careful planning can help overcome these challenges. (Feb. 2008)

Culture and the Courage to Change
In his President's Address at the association's 2007 annual meeting, Dr. Darrell G. Kirch urged medical school and teaching hospital leadership to change the culture of academic medicine by emphasizing "collaboration, shared accountability, and team performance." (Nov. 4, 2007)

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

 

Data Resources

FACTS
Tables of comprehensive, objective data on medical school applicants, matriculants, enrollment, and graduates

Number of U.S. Medical Schools Teaching Selected Topics, 2004-2005

AAMC-Member Medical Schools Listing

AAMC-Member Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems Listing

Diversity in the Physician Workforce: Facts and Figures 2006

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Publications and Reports

Medical School Expansion: Challenges and Strategies
Describes challenges that medical schools face as they expand medical student class size and the strategies they employ to overcome those challenges. (Jan. 2008)

2007 State Physician Workforce Data Book
This report examines the active physician supply in each state, medical school enrollment, and physicians in graduate medical education programs. Includes tables. (PDF, 39 pages - Nov. 2007)

Medical School Tuition and Young Physician Indebtedness (An Update to the 2004 Report) (Oct. 2007)

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AAMC Reporter

Academic Medicine

Analysis in Brief

AAMC STAT—Short, Topical and Timely

Washington Highlights

Top Issues

Diversity in Medicine

Financial Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research (press kit)

Geriatrics in Medical Education (press kit)

Health Care Quality

Medical Student Debt

NIH Funding (press kit)

Physician Workforce (press kit)

Protecting America's Uninsured

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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