The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is a not-for-profit association representing all 141 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and 90 academic and scientific societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC represents 148,000 faculty members, 83,000 medical students, and 115,000 resident physicians.

Through its many programs and services, the AAMC strengthens the world’s most advanced medical care by supporting the entire spectrum of education, research, and patient care activities conducted by our member institutions. The AAMC and our members are dedicated to the communities we serve and steadfast in our desire to earn and keep the public’s trust for the role we play in improving the nation’s health.

The AAMC serves and leads the academic medicine community to improve the health of all.

Inside the AAMC

• NEW: DEADLINE EXTENDED Call for Submissions – 2015 AAMC Admissions and Student Diversity Affairs PDC. June 18-21, 2015 – InterContinental Miami – Miami, FL. You will need to create a username and password (separate from your AAMC login). Follow the instructions provided – Proposal Deadline Extended: Monday, December 29, 2014
• Call for Abstracts Now Open: 11th Annual AAMC Health Research Conference
• AAMC Report – The State of Women in Academic Medicine: the Pipeline and Pathways to Leadership 2013-2014
• AAMC-CDC Public Health Policy Fellowship
• AAMC Hosts Middle and High School Students for Mentoring in Medicine Event
• Finalists Announced for ProjectMED Competition to Increase Diversity Among Future Physicians
• AAMC Releases Medical Education Guidelines to Improve Health Care for People Who Are LGBT, Gender Nonconforming, or Born with Differences of Sex Development To view a video highlighting ongoing work to ensure medical providers have the knowledge and skills required to deliver high-quality care to people who are LGBT, gender nonconforming, or born with DSD: https://vimeo.com/111221510
• Meet the Women Physicians Behind Disney’s We Are Doc McStuffins Campaign Webinar Recording
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) 101 Webinar Recording Available Now.
• Online Resource Supports Medical School Admissions Officers:As part of its commitment to identifying and fostering a capable, diverse, and compassionate future physician workforce, the AAMC has developed an online information hub (www.aamc.org/admissions) to help support our nations’ medical school admissions officers
• SAVE THE DATE: 2015 Admissions and Student Diversity Affairs Professional Development Conference June 18-21, 2015 – InterContinental Miami – Miami, FL
• Academic Medicine Ambiguity Tolerance of Students Matriculating to U.S. Medical Schools
• Academic Medicine: Distress Among Matriculating Medical Students Relative to the General Population; Educational and Individual Factors Associated With Positive Change in and Reaffirmation of Medical Students’ Intention to Practice in Underserved Areas; Effects of Hospital Accreditation on Medical Students: A National Qualitative Study in Taiwan.
• First Sample Test Available for the New MCAT Exam.
• Study Finds Majority of Health Professions Schools Use Holistic Review.
• Roadmap to Diversity and Educational Excellence: Key Legal and Educational Policy Foundations for Medical Schools.
• AAMC Participates in National Conference for Pre-Medical and Pre-Health Professions.
• Research Shows How Geographic Origin of Medical School Applicants Could Impact Physician Workforce.
• Analysis in Brief: Analyzing Physician Workforce Racial and Ethnic Composition Associations: A Two-part Series.
• AAMC Healthcare Executive Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program – Now Accepting Applications.
• C-SPAN’s Washington Journal featured AAMC Chief Public Policy Officer Atul Grover, M.D., Ph.D., discussing the physician shortage and how it is affecting health care across the nation.
• Webinar Recording Medical Student Wellness:  Addressing the Issue for Our Trainees and the Patients They Serve Available Now.
• Analysis in Brief: The AAMC Fee Assistance Program and Access to U.S. Medical School.
• Pivio System Helps Pre-Meds, Medical Students, and Physicians Manage Career Portfolio.
• New Guidelines to Prepare Medical Students for Residency Training and Improve Patient Safety.
• New Aspiring Docs Resource: The Premed Club.
• Competency-Based Medical Education: A Primer for the Medical Education Community.
• New AAMC Guidelines Released to Prepare Medical Students for Residency Training and Improve Patient Safety.
• Joint report from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) Examines Availability of Clerkship, Clinical Training Sites for Students in Health Professions.
• AAMC Video Challenge Encourages Academic Medicine Community to
  Increase Diversity.
• Discover How AAMC’s Medical Minority Applicant Registry (MedMAR) Enhances Admission Opportunities for Groups Historically Underrepresented in Medicine.
• AAMC Announces New MCAT2015 Resources and Score Scale.
• Resources for Pre-Med Students (pdf).
• Analysis In Brief: Certain Groups of Medical Students Disproportionately Affected by Stress.
• AAMC Analysis In Brief: Personal Well-Being Among Medical Students: Findings from an AAMC Pilot Survey.
• 2014 Update of AAMC Medical School Admissions Requirements
• AAMC and Cook Ross to Hold Unconscious Bias Learning Labs for the Healthcare Professions in 2014.
• Connect with Student Diversity Affairs Officers through AAMC’s Directory of Diversity Affairs Officers.
• Aspiring Docs Diaries Seeks Students with Inspiring Stories

Opportunities for Professionals

• HSHPS Professional Development Workshop: Data Systems June 28-30, 2015 at the HHS/National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. The workshop aims to help prepare scholars interested in Hispanic health research strengthen their skills and knowledge to perform analytical studies of national health datasets to better contribute to Hispanic health care research and provision of adequate health care to Hispanics and other underserved populations.
• National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education Releases its first “Standards of Professional Practice for Chief Diversity Officers.”
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Education Discussion Forum – This forum will provide the NSF Division of Graduate Education (DGE) a direct connection with graduate students, faculty, university administrators, employers, and others who want to contribute to the national dialogue. To get stakeholder input, the DGE will host moderated conversations on this forum.
• National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Leadership Fellowship ProgramApplication Deadline: January 31, 2015.
• National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Call for Physician Mentors in the following metropolitan areas: New York City, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, San Antonio, and Los Angeles.
• “Underrepresented Minority High School and College Students Report STEM-Pipeline Sustaining Gains After Participating in the Loma Linda University Summer Health Disparities Research Program” Salto LM, Riggs ML, Delgado De Leon D, Casiano CA, De Leon M (2014) . PLoS ONE 9(9): e108497. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108497.
• Save the Date: The Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board’s (AAIHB) Twelfth Circle of Harmony HIV/AIDS Wellness Conference, “Honoring Community Engagement through Awareness, Prevention, & Care” will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico – April 20nd – 22rd, 2015. Early registration and a Talking Circle will be the evening of April 20, 2015 and ends at 5pm on April 22, 2015.

Opportunities for Professionals and Students

• 2015 LGBT Health Workforce Conference Building a Caring Community in the Electronic Age May 1-3, 2015 New York City, NY Abstract Submission Deadline:  January 15, 2015
• HSHPS Professional Development Workshop: Data Systems June 28-30, 2015 at the HHS/National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. The workshop aims to help prepare scholars interested in Hispanic health research strengthen their skills and knowledge to perform analytical studies of national health datasets to better contribute to Hispanic health care research and provision of adequate health care to Hispanics and other underserved populations.
•  HSHPS Student Mentorship Program for Hispanic Health Research NEED RESEARCHERS! National structured mentorship program targeting third and fourth year undergraduates and first year graduate level students. This program is web and team based focusing on Hispanic health research for six (6) months (February through August). To be a mentor, e-mail: [email protected].
• Publication  Implementing Curricular and Institutional Climate Changes to Improve Health Care for Individuals Who Are LGBT, Gender Nonconforming, or Born with DSD: A Resource for Medical Educators
• National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Opportunities to present at NHMA’s 19^th Annual Conference: March 27 – 29, 2015. For more information, contact John Aguilar at (202) 628-5895 ext. 130 or by email at [email protected].
• Equity of Care Videos Highlight Importance of Eliminating Health Care Disparities.
• The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funding announcements including Addressing Disparities – Fall 2014 Cycle
• Baylor College of Medicine Announces 12th Annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Awards – December 31, 2014.
• The American Board of Medical Specialties is accepting applications for junior faculty, residents and fellows, medical students, public health students, and graduate students in health services research and other relevant disciplines to participate in its Visiting Scholars Program.
• Join the NIH for the “Transforming Diversity in Research Training” Interactive Discussion Forum!
• NIH to Fund Research Workforce Diversity Program.

Opportunities for Students

• NEW: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Experience In Research application is now live! Application Deadline: Friday, January 30, 2015
• NEW: AGA Research Foundation announces AGA Investing in the Future Student Research Fellowship Application Deadline: February 6, 2015
• Jose “Pepe” Morales, Jr. Mentorship Program for Undergraduate or Graduate Students; Interest in a career in health care management. Application Deadline: December 31, 2014
• HIV Vaccine Research Grants for Medical Students Seeking African American/Black and Latino/a medical students interested in HIV vaccine research DEADLINE: January 28, 2015
• HSHPS Professional Development Workshop: Data Systems June 28-30, 2015 at the HHS/National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. The workshop aims to help prepare scholars interested in Hispanic health research strengthen their skills and knowledge to perform analytical studies of national health datasets to better contribute to Hispanic health care research and provision of adequate health care to Hispanics and other underserved populations.
•  HSHPS Graduate Fellowship Training Program paid and unpaid training opportunities for graduate and doctoral students and recent graduates interested in working on Hispanic health research in a government agency or academic institution. Deadline for spring 2015: Dec. 10, 2014. Deadline for summer 2015: Feb. 1, 2015.
• University of Chicago Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics and Surgery host Visiting Clerkship Diversity Program (VCDP)
• The Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center Program* for Faculty Development and Diversity in the Office for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School is pleased to offer two great research programs this coming summer: Visiting Research Internship Program (VRIP), for first and second year medical students AND The Summer Clinical and Translational Research Program (SCTRP) (Attachments)
• Summer Public Health Scholars Program (SPHSP) Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons College of Dental Medicine, School of Nursing, and the Mailman School of Public Health
• University Hospital Medical Center Introduces David Satcher, MD Clerkship for Rising 4^th Year Underrepresented (URM) Medical Students – Deadline: May 15, 2015 (Attachment)
• American Pediatric Society/Society for Pediatric Research Student Research Opportunity – Deadline: January 23, 2015
• Video: Pathways to Medicine Program by Morehouse President Valerie Montgomery Rice
• HHMI Research Opportunities for Medical Students at U.S. Schools – For 2nd and 3rd Year Students: 1) HHMI Medical Research Fellows Program, 2) The Medical Research Fellows Program at Janelia, 3) The Medical Research Fellows Program at K-RITH; For 1st Year Students: HHMI Summer Medical Fellows Program
• Michigan State University Extension: So you’re thinking about medical school?
• Connect with the National Minority Association of Pre-Medical/Health Students (SNMA-MAPS) on facebook
• Duke University School of Medicine (DUSOM) Seeks 4^th Year Medical Students for Visiting Student Scholarship sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (Attachment)
• Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) Seeks 4^th Year Medical Students for The Office of Diversity Programs (ODP) Visiting Elective Program. (Attachment)