Office of Medical Education

Curriculum Changes

Integrating education and patient care.  2003.  GME Task Force, aamc.org

Benbassat. A proposal for teaching basic clinical sckills for mastery: the case against vertical integration.  Acad Med 82:83, 2007

Dannefer.  The portfolio approach to competency based assessment at the Cleveland Clinic lerner college of medicine.  Acad Med 82:493, 2007

Greenhalgh.  Computer assisted learning inundergraduate medical education.  BJM.com 2/27/06

Lechner.  Evaluation of teaching and learning strategies. Med Ed online 6:4, 2001

Litzelman et al. The new formal competency-based curriculum and informal curriculum at the Indiana university som: overview and five-year analysis.  Acad Med 82:410, 2007

Ogur.  The Harvard medical school-cambridge integrated clerkship: an innovative model of clinical education.  Acad Med 82:397, 2007

Sakowski.  Dimensions of clinical medicine: an interdisciplinary program.  Teaching and Learning in Med 17:370,2005

Shanley.  Leaving the “empty glass” of PBL behind: new assumptions about a revised model for case study in preclinical medical education.  Acad Med.  82:479, 2007

Smith.  Assessing students’ performances in a competency based curriculum.  Acad Med 78:97, 2003

Wass.  Assessment of clinical competence.  Lancet 357:945, 2001

Whitcomb.  Ambulatory-based clinical education: Flexner revisited.  Acad Med 81:105, 2006

Effective use of educational technology in medical education.  AAMC Institute for Improving Medical Education.  Aamc.org 3/07

Wilkes.  Doctoring: UCLA.  Acad Med 73:32, 1998

School expansion:

Medical school expansion plans: Results of the 2006 AAMC survey, 2/07:  aamc.org

A growth spurt for Medica Schools.  http://chronicle.com  section money and management, vol 53, issue 19, page A27

Salsberg.  Physician Workforce shortages: implications and issues for academic heatlh centers and policymakers.  Acad Med 81:782, 2006

AAMC statement on the physician workforce.  June 2006.  aamc.org

US needs more physicians soon, but how many more is debatable.  Annal Intern Med 143:472, 2005

Future medical school applicants, overall trends.  Aamc.org 5/07

Position papers on education:

Functions and structure of a medical school.  LCME standards.  LCME.org

Educating doctors to provide high quality medical care.  IIME Dean’s Committee.  July 2004.  aamc.org

Initiative to transform medical education.  Phase 1—problem identification working conference summary.  Dec 2005.  ama.org

Implementing the vision.  GEA responds to the IIME Dean’s Committee Report. September 2006. aamc.org. 

Bland.  Curriclular change in medical schools: how to succeed.  Acad Med 75:575, 2000

Whitcomb.  Medical Education reform: is it time for a modern Flexner report?  Acad Med 82:1, 2007