Organizations and Associations
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and feedback.Please send us information about other organizations that will be of interest to educators in the health professions.
The information provided here is supplied by others.CIS does not sponsor or endorse any of the listed organizations and cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information provided.
AACP (American Association of
Colleges of Pharmacy)
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) (Home Page)
AAMC - Council of Academic Societies
(Information of Service to Faculty)
AAMC Curriculum Database for U.S. and Canadian
Medical Schools (Request for info)
AAMC - Medical Education
Page
AAMC - Member
Academic Societies (Listed by discipline)
AERA (American Education
Research Association)
AMEE (Association for Medical
Education in Europe)
AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association)
ANZAME - Australasian
and New Zealand Association for Medical Education
APDIM (Association
of Program Directors in Internal Medicine)
APGO (The Association of Professors
of Gynecology and Obstetrics)
ASE (Association for Surgical Education)
ASHE The Association for the Study of
Higher Education
BSEF The Basic Science Education Forum
Center For The Health Professions, The
CGEA The Central Group on Educational Affairs (of the AAMC)
COMSEP (Council on Medical Student
Education in Pediatrics)
NAWHME
(National Academy on Women's Health Medical Education)
NAPCRG (North
American Primary Care Research Group)
Network of Community-Oriented Educational Institutions
for Health Sciences
National Board of Medical Examiners
POD (Professional and Organizational
Development Network in Higher Education)
SDRME (The Society of Directors of Research
in Medical Education)
SEA (Society
for Education in Anesthesia)
SGIM (Society for General Internal
Medicine) 
Society of Medical Decision Making
Sports Therapy Section (American Physical
Therapy Association)
STFM (Society of Teachers of Family
Medicine)
WONCA
(The World Organization of Family Doctors)
The AAMC's Council of Academic Societies (CAS) has launched a new Web service to better meet the information needs of faculty. The new Web site contains regularly updated news items, services, and other information of interest to faculty. Through its 86 member professional organizations, the CAS represents the clinical and basic sciences faculty leadership of U.S. and Canadian medical schools.
In addition to material directly related to CAS, the site contains useful government affairs material, links to various AAMC database products, information on faculty affairs topics, and reports and services on the teaching, research, and clinical service missions of medical schools.
The site will expand in coming months, and suggestions from faculty are welcome.
Please submit submit suggestions via Email.
For further information, contact: Tony Mazzaschi, AAMC Division of Biomedical Research, 202.828.0059.
The AAMC National Curriculum Database
The AAMC National Curriculum Database is being designed for U.S. and Canadian
medical schools to collect and track curriculum information. The program
will require that all schools enter the basic information they currently
provide for the AAMC Curriculum Directory (which will be used in place of
the paper survey beginning in 1997), and will further allow them to enter
more detailed information such as course directors, course topics, teaching
methods and materials, teaching sites, and assessment techniques. The database
is structured so that each school can determine the level of detail they
wish to track.
When fully operational, the database will support medical school curriculum
managers in administering their programs, will allow for detailed comparisons
of curricula between schools, and, over time, can be used to analyze trends
in medical education in the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, it will support
the efficient use of successful reform strategies by documenting and making
available detailed information about ongoing curriculum reform and innovation.
The program is based on a model developed by William D. Mattern, M.D. and
colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of
Medicine. A prototype of the database program was tested at several volunteer
medical schools. Careful effort was made to include schools with varied
curricular structures. Each pilot school entered its curriculum into the
program, and then returned an electronic copy to the AAMC along with comments
on difficulties encountered and recommendations for improvements.
We are currently evaluating the comments and recommendations, and adjusting
the database accordingly. We expect to distribute a runtime version of the
database later this year to all U.S. and Canadian medical schools.
We hope to make it able to import from and export to existing curriculum
databases.
We are therefore asking each medical school that currently uses a
database to manage and track the curriculum to provide us a copy of the
data directory or file layouts, along with comments on each of the following:
Please send this information at your earliest convenience to the following address:
Albert A. Salas, Staff Associate
Division of Medical Education
AAMC
2450 N St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
Questions?: E-mail aasalas@aamc.org; voice: 202-828-0518; fax 202-828-1123
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AMEE (Association for Medical Education
in Europe)
e-mail: l.a.cumming@dundee.ac.uk
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AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association)
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The Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO)
This is a national organization dedicated to education in the areas of women's health, obstetrics and gynecology at the medical school level.
For further infromation, contact:
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ASHE The Association for the Study of Higher Education
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Association for Surgical Education
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BSEF The Basic Science Education Forum.
An international forum for sharing current and innovative techniques for teaching and learning the fundamental sciences of medicine.
The Third Biennial International Conference of the BASIC SCIENCE EDUCATION FORUM, Strategies for Teaching Medical Sciences in the 21st Century, will be held June 21-24, 1997, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.
For conference, membership and other information, please visit the BSEF web site, or contact:
- Roger W. Koment, Ph.D
- Executive Director
- Basic Science Education Forum
- Department of Microbiology
- University of South Dakota
- School of Medicine
- Vermillion, SD 57069-2390 U.S.A.
- Voice: (+)1-605-677-5174
- Fax: (+)1-605-677-6299
E-mail: rkoment@sunbird.usd.edu
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The Center For The Health Professions
Created by the University of California, San Francisco in 1992, the Center is an outgrowth of the Pew Health Professions Commission. The mission of the Center is to assist health care professionals, health professions schools, care delivery organizations and public policy makers respond to the challenges of educating and managing a health care workforce capable of improving the health and well being of people and their communities.
The Center is funded by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Trusts support the work of nonprofit organizations in the six following areas: culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Through their grant making. the Trusts seek to encourage individual development and personal achievement, cross-disciplinary problem-solving, and innovative, practical approaches to meeting the changing needs of a global community.
- THE CENTER FOR THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS
- University of California, San Francisco
- 1388 Sutter St., Suite 805
- San Francisco, CA 94109-5453
- Phone: 415 476-8181
- Fax: 415 476 4113
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COMSEP (Council on Medical Student Education
in Pediatrics)
Mission Statement
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Network of Community-Oriented Educational
Institutions for Health Sciences
Pauline Vluggen
POB 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel: 31-43-3881522/1524
Fax: 31-43-3670708
Email: secretariat@network.rulimburg.nl
Visit the Network's
Web Site
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POD (Professional and Organizational
Development Network in Higher Education)
MISSION STATEMENT
Dr. David Graf
15B Exhibit Hall South
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
(515)294-3808
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SDRME (The Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education)
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Society of Medical Decision Making
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Sports Physical Therapy Section, a
component of the American Physical Therapy Association. At present we have
approximately 6,000 members throughout the United States.
For Additional Information contact:
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