AAMC survey on faculty appointment, promotion, and tenure policies launches week of October 17
The AAMC is launching a national survey on faculty appointment, promotion, and tenure policies. For more than 20 years, the AAMC has collected data on APT policies and procedures; faculty affairs experts from medical schools around the country have used the datasets to benchmark their policies to other institutions and to learn about policies innovations in faculty work life.
The primary faculty affairs dean or official at U.S. medical schools will receive an invitation to the survey during the week of October 17 and are welcomed to share the link with others in the faculty affairs office. The survey will only take 15-20 minutes to complete. Contact William T. Mallon, Ed.D., AAMC senior director of strategy and innovation development, for more information. Thanks in advance for your participation!
Save the Date: GDI and GFA Joint Professional Development Conference
The 2023 AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) and Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA) Joint Professional Development Conference will be held June 12 - 14, 2023, at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort and Spa in Indian Wells, CA. The in-person event is an opportunity for leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion, faculty affairs, and faculty development to engage in candid and productive discussions about timely issues affecting faculty, graduate learners, administrators, and professional staff in academic medicine and science. For more information on this event and other upcoming AAMC professional development opportunities, follow @AAMCProfDev on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Request for Applications
Apply today for the Clinical Scientist Development Award (CSDA). This award supports physician scientists at the Assistant Professor rank and who are conducting clinical research, including research on any disease area, health outcomes, or health services. Approximately 16 grants of up to $495,000 each over 3 years ($150,000 direct cost and $15,000 indirect costs per year) will be awarded to early-career physician scientists (MD, MD/PhD, DO or foreign equivalent degree) to support clinical research that will enable their transition to independent research funding.
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Seeking feedback on AAMC leadership development opportunities
The AAMC is seeking participants for a one-hour focus group designed to create innovative leadership offerings for members of the academic medicine community. Individuals who do not currently hold a formal leadership position or who have limited exposure to formal leadership training are encouraged to sign up no later than Oct. 12. Feel free to share this focus group opportunity with others at your institution.
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New AAMC resource on mental behavioral health care
As outlined in Action Plan 7 of the AAMC strategic plan, the association is committed to advancing policies that enable providers to deliver high-quality behavioral health care to their patients and equip medical students, residents, and fellows with the skills to succeed in integrated and interdisciplinary care teams. The AAMC has developed a new resource to highlight recommendations to expand the behavioral health workforce, promote the integration of physical and behavioral health care, and expand access to mental health coverage and care.
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AAMC campaign will educate federal policy community about value of academic medicine
Federal policymakers and their staff could better understand the leading role academic medicine plays in the nation’s health. AAMC research shows that some policymakers and staff cannot name an academic medical center, nor can they explain what distinguishes them from non-teaching hospitals. To help demonstrate the value of academic medicine, the AAMC will launch a sustained months-long public awareness campaign this November to engage the federal policy community. This campaign will position academic medical centers as essential institutions in American health care that are driving systemic change and innovation to save lives. This month, the leadership, communications, and advocacy teams at AAMC member institutions will receive a campaign guidebook that includes effective messages that resonate with policymakers, digital and social media tools, and other resources. We encourage institutions to use these tools to communicate with their own federal, state, and local policymakers and within their own communities. For this campaign to be effective, we need every member institution to help raise our collective voices to position academic medical centers as essential institutions to America’s health.
Joint statement on violence against health care workers
AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and National Academy of Medicine President Victor J. Dzau, MD, issued a joint statement on violence against health care workers. “Violence against health care workers is surging and inflammatory rhetoric has become commonplace and intense. Such words and actions are irresponsible and dangerous and compromise the ability of health professionals to provide much-needed care to patients and communities. We cannot continue to tolerate misleading and incendiary commentary that poses the risk of turning places of healing into sites of violence. Our organizations call on leaders to safeguard health professionals and others in health care settings from such risks.”
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AAMC CDC joint letter calls on physicians to help mitigate spread of Ebola
With the Ebola outbreak declared on Sept. 20 in Uganda, AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have sent a letter calling for physicians to collect extensive, detailed travel histories of all patients whose symptoms and travel may raise suspicion of Ebola virus disease. While the outbreak has not spread outside of Uganda and does not represent any immediate cause for concern in the U.S, the complexity of international travel means that physicians must be urgently alerted to the potential future spread of the virus.
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Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP, named AAMC chief public policy officer
The AAMC has announced Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP, as its new chief public policy officer. She brings more than 20 years of health care policy experience and joins the AAMC from the American Medical Association’s Division of Federal Affairs, where she advocated for critical issues impacting physicians and the nation’s health care system with key government agencies. She will join the AAMC on Nov. 1. “Danielle has an exceptional background in health care policy and advocacy, and her outstanding qualifications made her a standout among a robust and diverse slate of candidates,” said AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD.
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AAMCNews: Does racial resentment hurt White people, too? One doctor says yes
In touring America’s heartland, Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD, found that racial anxieties caused people to make decisions about their health that actually harmed them.
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New study examines mistreatment of physicians with disabilities
A new study published in Health Affairs, Patient and Co-worker Mistreatment of Physicians with Disabilities, co-authored by the AAMC, shows 64% of physicians with disabilities experienced some form of mistreatment, putting them at higher risk of mistreatment than the general physician population. The study analyzes AAMC survey data collected from a nationally representative sample of practicing physicians. Findings from the study suggest the need for immediate systems-level interventions, such as training that underscores the value of physicians with disabilities and clear anti-harassment policies for staff, patients, and visitors to protect physicians with disabilities.
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National Academy of Medicine releases national plan on health workforce well-being
The capacity and well-being of the U.S. health workforce has been under threat for years by an epidemic of burnout, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this systems-wide issue. Now more nurses, physicians, and state and local public health department employees than ever are considering leaving their professions. Recognizing that the function of the U.S. health system is at stake, the National Academy of Medicine has released the National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being to drive collective action to strengthen health workforce well-being and restore the health of the nation.
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Call for submissions for IPEC virtual post fair
The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), of which the AAMC is a member, is hosting a free virtual event poster fair on Nov. 29. IPEC welcomes posters sharing interprofessional projects and practices across all disciplines and at various stages of development and implementation. The deadline for abstract submissions is Oct. 19.
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