Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA) Colleagues, please read these important announcements, learning opportunities, and resources. Share with your colleagues and networks. Thank you.
AAMC and National Medical Association Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine
Join the AAMC and National Medical Association Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine for any of the upcoming virtual forums to delve into the findings from the in-person Strategy Summit. During these virtual forums, you will learn about the proposed systems-based strategies and interventions developed in the Summit, discuss and share your prospective on proposed systems-based solutions, and assess how you and or your organization can contribute to systems change. These forums will inform the development of the Action Collaborative’s national agenda.
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AAMC leaders join University of Miami Miller School of Medicine podcast for conversation on reducing health inequities
In the second episode of a two-part series, AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and Chief Academic Officer Alison J. Whelan, MD, joined University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Dean and Chief Academic Officer Henri Ford, MD, MHA, on the “Inside U Miami Medicine” podcast to examine academic medicine’s role in reducing health disparities in marginalized communities. They discuss the importance of diversity in medical schools and how it can lead to improved health outcomes. Whelan and Skorton also share their insight into current Supreme Court cases that are examining whether race-conscious admissions is lawful, raising concerns about the future of holistic admissions in higher education, and what will happen if affirmative action is overturned.
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ABIM Foundation, IHI launching Health Care Trustworthiness Prototyping Network
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is seeking collaboration with U.S.-based hospitals, health systems, and multi-specialty practices that offer primary care on how to build trust between a health care organization, its clinicians, and the community it serves. The prototyping learning network launches in March 2023 and will take place over 10 months, during which participants will partner with experts to test change ideas and methods to improving trust in health care.
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AAMCNews: Recent breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s research provide hope for patients
While there is no cure, researchers say a newly approved drug, advanced testing, and increasing knowledge about the disease may improve patients’ lives.
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AAMCNews: It’s tempting to say gun violence is about mental illness. The truth is much more complex.
Focusing on mental illness as the cause of mass shootings diverts attention from the larger problem of gun violence in the U.S., two experts argue.
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VaccineVoices: Why pediatric vaccines are so important
If you’re a pediatrician, chances are you have patients whose parents haven’t given much thought to their kids getting measles. But an outbreak has been underway in central Ohio since October 2022.
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