AMA’s ChangeMedEd Conference Seeks to Accelerate Change in Medical Education
On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the American Medical Association (AMA) will convene more than 500 innovators and experts in Chicago for the ChangeMedEd 2019 conference to continue the work under way to transform the way future physicians are trained.
The goal of the four-day conference is to continue cultivating a community of innovation that will further accelerate change in medical education—by spreading innovations and emerging concepts from leading medical schools, residency programs, and health systems working together to both create the medical schools of the future and improve residency training.
In one workshop, leaders from University of Chicago Medicine will offer attendees hands-on practice using example mobile health apps and microblogging to solve common clinical case challenges. In another, educators from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine will offer attendees tools to help trainees integrate structural analysis into the differential diagnosis as part of a patient’s history and physical or progress note. Leaders from OSF Healthcare in Peoria and University of Illinois will provide best practices and guidelines for medical educators in using augmented reality applications in medical education.
During the conference, the AMA will announce the award recipients of the second annual Accelerating Change in Medical Education Innovation grant program.
Nearly $400,000 will be awarded to medical schools from across the country for their projects aimed at stimulating research, new innovations or dissemination of existing innovations in medical education to train future physicians to succeed in the rapidly evolving healthcare system. At the event, the AMA will also unveil a new innovation developed by one of the recipients of the inaugural grant program—this innovation will be disseminated through the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium and will be available to all medical schools.
The conference will also feature nearly 100 interactive presentations from across the continuum of medical education, health professions education, health systems and learning technology. Topics will include training medical students and residents on delivering high-value cost-conscious care, using augmented intelligence and virtual reality in medical education, reducing implicit bias in medical education and training, ensuring medical students and residents are trained in Health Systems Science, and training future physicians to counsel patients on tobacco cessation.
