Health and well-being are key concepts throughout medical school. Those concepts take on a new level of import, however, at the outset of residency. Once resident physicians begin their graduate medical education, longer hours and increased responsibility can lead to burnout.
Number of years in the consortium: 8 years
Of note, all 4 items below apply to our work in the ACE consortium since 2013. In addition to our original proposal (which transformed our whole medical education program), our renewal was focused on going deeper in three elements: (1) competency-based medical education, (2) health systems science, and (3) advising/coaching across the undergraduate to graduate medical education continuum. In addition, we have worked separately on a grant provided by the AMA on “Case Studies in Medical Education Transformation,” which addresses change management. As such, the University of Michigan’s strategy areas of focus include all 4 elements below (relevant areas added and/or highlighted):
JAMA Health Forum article examining the impact of efforts at a New York medical school.
Health equity initiatives in the U.S.
See how organizations across the country are working to center health equity and name racism as a barrier to equity in their COVID-19 responses.
The article, Debt-Free Medical Education A Tool for Health Care Workforce Diversity, looks at Weill Cornell Medicine s commitment to making medical education debt-free, which started in 2019, and the early results that it has produced.
To understand the impact of this program on the incoming Class 2024, Weill Cornell compared medical student applicants and matriculants in 2020 with those from the 4 previous years (2016-2019). In 2020 the first full admissions cycle in which the program was in place Weill Cornell Medical College s applications rose 11%. Among matriculating students we observed statistically significant increases in the percentage of students from groups underrepresented in medicine (from 20% to