Advancing the Medical Education Mission

Advancing the mission.

Introduction I have been honored to serve as president over the past year and as a member of the Council since 2012. The opportunity to work with my fellow Council members, distinguished colleagues across the country, and superb administrative team constitutes one of the great privileges of my professional life. I would happily conclude my tenure by enjoying our annual meeting’s scientific sess...

Advancing social media in medical education.

Hospice Home Immersion Project: Advancing Medical Education

The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM) Hospice Immersion project was piloted in 2014 in southern Maine. It was designed and implemented as an experiential medical education learning model whereby medical students were “admitted” into the local Hospice Home to live there for 48 hours. Until this project, palliative and end of life care education at US Medical Scho...

The social mission of medical education: ranking the schools.

BACKGROUND The basic purpose of medical schools is to educate physicians to care for the national population. Fulfilling this goal requires an adequate number of primary care physicians, adequate distribution of physicians to underserved areas, and a sufficient number of minority physicians in the workforce. OBJECTIVE To develop a metric called the social mission score to evaluate medical sch...

Advancing faculty development in medical education: a systematic review.

PURPOSE To (1) provide a detailed account of the nature and scope of faculty development (FD) programs in medical education, (2) assess the quality of FD studies, and (3) identify in what areas and through what means future research can purposefully build on existing knowledge. METHOD The authors searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, and ERIC for articles reporting evaluations of FD initiatives published...