[Recommendations of the Association of American Medical Colleges on industry support of medical education].

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The effect of industry support on participants' perceptions of bias in continuing medical education.

PURPOSE To obtain prospective evidence of whether industry support of continuing medical education (CME) affects perceptions of commercial bias in CME activities. METHOD The authors analyzed information from the CME activity database (346 CME activities of numerous types; 95,429 participants in 2007) of a large, multispecialty academic medical center to determine whether a relationship existe...

Preparing for the changing role of instructional technologies in medical education.

As part of an international faculty development conference in February 2010, a working group of medical educators and physicians discussed the changing role of instructional technologies and made recommendations for supporting faculty in using these technologies in medical education. The resulting discussion highlighted ways technology is transforming the entire process of medical education and...

Is the Physician Shortage Real? Implications for the Recommendations of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education.

In July 2014, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education released its report calling for a major overhaul of the financing of graduate medical education (GME). Several national organizations with an interest in GME faulted the report on the basis that the IOM Committee recommendations would worsen physician shortages. However, this co...

Queer Frontiers in Medicine: A Structural Competency Approach.

In 2014, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) published a report proposing qualifiers of competence to guide medical educators towards training physicians to appropriately care for individuals who are or may be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT); gender nonconforming (GNC); and/or born with differences in sex development (DSD). These qualifiers provide content and context...

Practical recommendations for supporting medical students and faculty in learning about family violence.

Family violence as a discipline of medical study and practice is now an integral component of medical education. Education about family violence should be spread among many courses and delivered by a variety of faculty throughout the four years of medical school. Medical faculty are just beginning to appreciate the complexities of teaching about family violence, in particular the issues involve...