AMA, AAMC Say Reform Needed Across Continuum of US Medical Education, July 27, 2005, Voelker 294 (4): 416

JAMA -- AMA, AAMC Say Reform Needed Across Continuum of US Medical Education, July 27, 2005, Voelker 294 (4): 416: "With a few pen strokes, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) reaffirmed their close ties while signifying an urgent need for reform in US medical education.

In mid-June, as the AMA’s House of Delegates opened its 2005 Annual Meeting, the heads of both associations signed a statement of cooperation intended to improve health care by making changes throughout the educational continuum, from undergraduate medical education to continuing medical education (CME).

The one-page statement points out that the two groups are longtime partners in medical school accreditation and data collection on medical school and residency training. Now, both associations have pledged to cooperate in facilitating reforms intended to prepare physicians for the scientific, technological, and practice challenges of medicine in the 21st century."

Five futures for academic medicine: the ICRAM scenarios -- Clark and for the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine 331 (7508): 101 -- BMJ

Five futures for academic medicine: the ICRAM scenarios -- Clark and for the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine 331 (7508): 101 -- BMJ:
"Five futures for academic medicine: the ICRAM scenarios
Jocalyn Clark, associate editor1 for the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine 1 BMJ, London WC1H 9JR jclark@bmj.com
Although most people agree that academic medicine needs to reform, the nature of the changes is unclear. ICRAM hopes its five scenarios for the future will aid the debate "

Using Health Research in Policy and Practice

Using Health Research in Policy and Practice:
Ray Moynihan
"Many policymakers and clinicians take professional pleasure in grounding their decisions in the best available evidence, especially when they have confidence in that evidence and access to it when they need it. Similarly, many researchers are eager for their work to be useful, especially when they are only required to communicate it in journal articles and on a schedule that they choose.
In this report, Ray Moynihan, an experienced journalist, describes collaboration between researchers and users of their skills and findings in nine countries. Moynihan introduces the report by briefly recapitulating controversial issues in the application of knowledge derived from research to policy and practice. He concludes by describing common themes in the nine stories. "

The Future of Academic Medicine: Five Scenarios to 2025

The Future of Academic Medicine: Five Scenarios to 2025
This report is one of three similar and simultaneous publications about current challenges to and alternative futures for academic medicine. The authors, members of the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine (ICRAM), want to stimulate discussion among colleagues who work in academic medicine, as well as practitioners and students of medicine and other health professions. They also hope to reach the men and women who set priorities for academic medicine and allocate resources to and within it.

The three publications—articles in BMJ* and PLoS Medicine* and this Milbank Report—differ in the extent to which the authors compress and document their discussion of what they call current “instabilities in academic medicine.” For this report, the authors expanded their discussion and documentation of these instabilities in order to provide additional context for readers who do not spend their professional lives in academic medicine.
Jocalyn Clark jclark@bmj.com and Richard Smith richard_s_smith@uhc.com
The authors define academic medicine as the “capacity” of the health sector to “think, study, research, discover, evaluate, innovate, teach, learn, and improve.” Each country allocates responsibility for these tasks differently. In all countries, however, schools of medicine and other health professions and the hospitals, ambulatory care settings, and research units associated with them are central in carrying them out.

Five Futures for Academic Medicine

PLoS Medicine: Five Futures for Academic Medicine: "“Academic medicine” might be defined as the capacity of the health-care system to think, study, research, discover, evaluate, innovate, teach, learn, and improve. As such, little could be more important—particularly as new discoveries in science offer tremendous opportunities and emergent diseases pose huge threats. Yet something is not right with academic medicine. Worse, the diagnosis is not entirely clear, although many august bodies have reported on the issue (Table 1), and the treatment is unknown. Moreover, these previous consultations have been based in the industrialised world, particularly the United Kingdom and the United States, and few have taken a global view."