Medical Education

Our education imparts the knowledge, attitudes, and skills which we will use as physicians, and determines the extent to which we will be able to meet the needs of our patients and the healthcare system at large. Join us in transforming the medical profession from the inside!

		Building leadership in academic medicine				Empowering students with expanded knowledge and skills
		Advocating for curricular reform in medical education				Rewarding achievement in medical education

AMSA POLICIES ON MEDICAL EDUCATION

• Curriculum Design & Content
• Medical School Mission Statements
• Graduate Medical Education & Specialty Distribution
• Financing of Medical Education

MEDICAL EDUCATION PROJECTS AT THE LOCAL CHAPTER

• For ideas on medical education projects that you can do at your school, click here.
• To apply for funding for a local project, click here.
• When you complete the project, be sure to post it here.

These are projects-in-a-box on medical education and curricular reform. They are fully developed "just add water" resources for events you can hold at your AMSA chapter.

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  
  
• Physician Supply and Distribution
  
  
• Elementary School Nutrition Education: A Teaching Curriculum (PDF 191KB)
  From the AMSA chapter at the University of Pennsylvania. Provides detailed plans for 13 lessons medical students can present in their communities' elementary schools. Suggests props. 1996
  
  
• Promoting Healthy Behaviors: Linking Student Health to Prevention
  PowerPoint Presentation (315 KB)
  
  
• Primary Care Educational Modules (1999)
  The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Educational Program for Clinical and Comunity Issues in Primary Care. Developed by AMSA for the NHSC. Under contract. no.s 103HR940859P000-000, 240-91-0022, 240-94-0040

RELEVANT AMSA WEBPAGES

• Achieving Diversity in Dentistry and Medicine (ADDM)
  Addresses issues in medical and dental education, the health workforce, and leadership in medicine and dentistry.
  
  
• PDAs in Medical Education
  
  
• Career Development Program
  Residency reviews, medical school assessments and more.
  
  
• Open Access to the Scientific Literature

ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS ON MEDICAL EDUCATION

• The New Physician Magazine Article Archives
  Medical Education
  
  
• Academic Medicine
  
  
• The New England Journal of Medicine
  
  
• National Institute of Health National Library of Medicine
  
  
• National Institute of Health
  
  
• JAMA