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Texas schools qualify for AMA grants to revamp medical education
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine were among 31 medical schools and collaborative groups chosen by the American Medi- cal Association to qualify for grants to develop new designs for undergraduate medical education. As part of the “Accelerating Change in
Medical Education” initiative, AMA will provide $10 million over the next five years to fund 8 to 10 projects that:
• Develop new methods for teaching and/or assessing key competencies for medical students, and foster ways
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with 400 more seniors matching to pri- mary care specialties, specifically family and internal medicine and pediatrics. More than 95 percent of family medicine positions were filled. Other specialties that saw increases
include dermatology, neurology, surgery, and radiation oncology. Other notable statistics:
• 1,000 more seniors from allopathic schools participated in the 2013 match.
• 2,677 students were graduates of os- teopathic schools, 317 more than in 2012.
• Participation among U.S. citizen and noncitizen graduates of international medical schools increased over 2012.
• Emergency medicine and anesthesiol- ogy programs offered more positions this year.
State-specific numbers were not yet calculated at press time. More informa- tion about Texas match statistics will be in future issues of Texas Medicine.
to create more flexible, individualized learning plans;
• Promote exemplary methods to achieve patient safety, performance improvement and patient-centered team-based care, and improve un- derstanding of the health care system and health care financing in medical training; and
• Enhance development of profession- alism throughout the medical educa- tion learning environment.
“Rapid changes in health care require
a transformation in the way we train future physicians,” said outgoing AMA President Jeremy A. Lazarus, MD. “The AMA is deeply committed to redesigning undergraduate medical education to pre- pare the medical students of today for the health care of tomorrow.” Out of 141 eligible medical schools,
119 submitted letters of intent outlining their ideas. Baylor, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and the other finalists had until May 15 to put the finishing touches on their more detailed proposals, and AMA plans to announce the awards at its an- nual policymaking meeting this month in Chicago. AMA says a critical component of its
initiative will be to establish a learning consortium with the selected schools to rapidly disseminate best practices to other medical and health profession schools. n
Amy Lynn Sorrel is an associate editor of Texas Medicine. You can reach her by telephone at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1392, or (512) 370-1392; by fax at (512) 370-1629; or by email at
amy.sorrel@
texmed.org.
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