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February 22, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) last week announced forthcoming changes to the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). Mindful of the changing skillset that practitioners need to meet the demands of the job, the AAMC said that, be ...
October 2, 2008 | Commentary/Story
Harold Amos alumni have fulfilled the program's original vision, says the RWJF president and CEO: the idea that role models are essential to serve as beacons of possibility.
June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors performed a literature review to identify and evaluate successful strategies to form partnerships between public schools and universities in order to increase minority representation in health fields. They identified key differences in " ...
August 19, 2011 | Program Result
The Summer Medical and Dental Education Program helps undergraduates from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds compete for medical and dental school admission. This is a look at the program and its results as it passes the 20-year mark.
August 2, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The University of Kansas last month opened a new medical school campus in the rural town of Salina, to teach students the complexities of rural health care and, university leaders hope, to encourage physicians to practice in small, underserved commu ...
July 13, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
One of the great challenges of implementing health reform is training a health care workforce that is well-prepared to meet the needs of the estimated 30 million Americans who will soon be added to the rolls of the insured. To help with that, Medica ...
January 14, 2009 | Program Result
The Association of American Medical Colleges assembled a group of health care faculty to design a curriculum on interdisciplinary teamwork, so that faculty could effect curriculum changes across professional schools.
February 10, 2011 | Story
Executive director reports on new academic and research activities at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College—the first institute of its kind to be established at a historically black medical school.
July 1, 2006 | Program Result
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., Boston, organized a two-day National Consensus Conference on Medical Education for Care Near the End of Life in 1997 and subsequent dissemination efforts.
March 1, 2004 | Program Result
In 2002 and 2003, project staff at the American Osteopathic Association, Chicago, conducted two workshops to train faculty of osteopathic medical schools in high quality end-of-life care.