Committee on Medical Education

• About the Committee
• Issues and Resources
• Get Involved

About the Committee

The MSS Committee on Medical Education (CME) functions as think-tank for the AMA-MSS on issues relating to medical education. We remain informed on the latest trends emerging in the field of medical education, and relay those issues to the Governing Council and the MSS Assembly. In addition to developing reports and resolutions on important medical education issues, our committee works closely with the AMA medical student representatives to various committees such as the LCME, NBME, and CME, as well as the MSS Assembly.

Meet your 2008-2009 Committee on Medical Education

Contact your Committee on Medical Education

• Committee Chair - Jaime Kearns
• Committee Vice Chair - Srividya Bhadriraju 
• Committee Vice Chair - Justin Rasner 

Vision
The AMA-MSS Committee on Medical Education strives to refine the current medical education system to promote superior quality healthcare practices, patient-oriented healthcare, and lifelong physician professional medical development.

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Issues and Resources

Medical Education Issue Briefs
The Committee on Medical Education has prepared a number of issue briefs to provide medical students with information about the most important issues pertaining to medical education.  Please contact us with any suggestions for future issue brief topics. 

• Initiative to Transform Medical Education (PDF, 45KB)
• Clinical Skills Assessment Exam (PDF, 38KB)
• National Board of Medical Examiners (PDF, 36KB)

Medical Education Reports
At the request of the MSS Governing Council, the Committee on Medical Education has written a number of reports on various issues pertaining to medical education.  The following reports were approved by the MSS Assembly at the 2007 MSS Annual Meeting.  Reports can be found in the 2007 MSS Annual Meeting handbook (PDF, 1035KB) at the pages annotated below.

• Changing the Culture of Health Care Delivery: Encouragement of Teamwork Among Health Care Professional Students (GC Report A, page 82)
• Solutions to Tackling the Increasing Cost of Medical Education (GC Report G, page 130)
• Communication and Clinical Teaching Curricula (GC Report B, page 93)
• Patient Safety Curriculum (GC Report C, page 99)

Medical Education Links
The Committee has compiled a list of Web sites to serve as an informational resource on medical education issues.

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Get Involved

We encourage you to get involved with our committee. If you have concerns about the future of medical education, ideas for programming, need more information about a specific issue, have any questions regarding medical education issues or programming, please contact us. We look forward to providing you with the information you need about key medical education issues and hearing what you have to say those issues.

• Clinical Skills Assessment Exam Survey
• Initiative to Transform Medical Education Survey
• Interprofessional Education Survey
• Cost of Medical Education Survey

Chapter Activities
There are many things you can do to get your chapter involved in medical education issues:

• Educate your chapter on the Initiative to Transform Medical Education (ITME)
  • ITME update (Word, 60KB) presented at the 2006 MSS Interim Meeting
  • Informational background article published in the New England Journal of Medicine
• Ask your chapter membership complete the medical eduation surveys outlined above.

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