Join the Holistic Student Support working group for an insightful hour-long webinar where we dive into the critical juncture of Transition to Residency, which we define as students matching to a program and begin their transition to residency. During this webinar, we will explore challenges and innovations associated with the following areas:

• Residency Program Overview
• Financial Preparation for Residency
• Wellness and Emotional Support
• Building Systems, Processes and Skills to Support Residency Application and Interview Preparation

This interactive session aims to foster collaboration between student affairs and educational affairs, inspire innovation, and strengthen the support systems for our incoming medical students. This webinar is a part of a year-long series on Holistic Student Support. To see our introductory webinar, follow this link.

In the ever-evolving landscape of medical education, our commitment to the well-being and success of our students remains paramount. As professionals dedicated to supporting our future physicians, it is essential that we understand and effectively address the critical junctures in their educational journey. From matriculation through the transition to residency, medical students face numerous shared points where they must meet a predefined performance standard to advance to the next curricular phase. A student's experience navigating these points depends as much on institutional culture, structures, and supports as on their individual preparedness and ability.

Our Holistic Student Support webinar series, initiated in November 2023 and continuing through January 2025, aims to explore these critical junctures and the framework of support surrounding them. We invite you to join us not only as participants but as active contributors to candid discussions about the utility of the framework and strategies for enriching it further. Your engagement is crucial to our collective success. Whether you're directly involved in student services, educational affairs, or simply passionate about the evolution of medical education, this webinar series is designed with you in mind. Let’s collaborate to champion a holistic approach that ensures every medical student is poised for success.

About the Holistic Student Support Working Group

The charge of the Holistic Student Support Working Group is to identify or develop tools and resources to facilitate coordination of student services and educational affairs to holistically support a diverse cohort of medical students. We encourage you to join the Holistic Student Support Virtual Community to learn more about our work and to access resources to assist you in providing holistic support to your students.

This webinar was originally presented as a session at the recent Group on Business Affairs (GBA) and Group on Institutional Planning (GIP) Joint Spring Meeting in April. Because of its popularity and timely focus, it was chosen to be put forth as part this year’s GBA/GIP Virtual Programming that the Groups co-host throughout the year.

Recognizing the need to better understand clinical effort definitions, especially as the pediatric specialty workforce has decreased, the Association of Administrators in Academic Pediatrics (AAAP) and American Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC) began a partnership to help pediatric leadership groups across the U.S. and Canada.

After initial collaborative discussions in 2019, a demonstration project was launched to gain an understanding of institutions’ general definitions as they relate to overall full-time equivalent (FTE) expectations and how institutions interpreted and reported billable clinical FTE (cFTE). This session will highlight the process, the knowledge gained, and next steps in the journey to develop more accurate clinical work benchmarks.

The AAMC is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org

Attendance at this webinar will provide 1 hour of Continuing Professional Education credits in the areas of Business Management and Organization. The program level for this meeting is basic. The delivery method is Group-Internet. No prerequisites or advance preparation is required. For more information regarding AAMC administrative policies, please contact Heather Sacks at hsacks@aamc.org.

After completing this webinar, you will be able to:

• Understand the value of why and how the AAAP and AMSPDC initiated this clinical activity demonstration project.
• Understand key insights in what to consider when exploring the topic of cFTE and determining clinical hours worked.       
• Understand the primary recommendations and framework the AAAP/AMSPDC teams have developed to create a common knowledge and language around clinical effort.

You will be issued 1 credit for every 50 minutes you spend participating in a session. Partial credits will be given after the first credit is issued.

Former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine and Chairman of the Sullivan Commission The Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, MD, will deliver the annual Herbert W. Nickens Award lecture on the importance of institutions in our society.

The Herbert W. Nickens Award was established by the AAMC in 2000 to honor the late Herbert W. Nickens, MD, MA, and his lifelong concerns about the educational, societal, and health care needs of racial and ethnic minorities. This award is given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to promoting justice in medical education and health care. Learn more about the Herbert W. Nickens Award here.

About IDEAS
The AAMC IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-racism) Learning Series provides actionable information about DEI strategies that you can put into practice to become a more effective and successful leader, educator, and member of the academic medicine community.

In this session, the skills of scholarly writing will be explored through the lens of analyzing a manuscript that was accepted for publication. The participants will examine review criteria that are used by healthcare education journals and apply them to a sample manuscript. In discussing scholarly writing the participants will make a decision about the type of feedback they would give to the authors of the sample paper. 

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the components of a scholarly publication;
2. Discuss how to frame a problem statement;
3. Identify an effective Research Question;
4. Discuss whether the Design/method is appropriate to the question;
5. Discuss whether the authors have applied the best data collection methods to the appropriate sample;
6. Understand the Results section and how to present results in a clear manner.

Recordings will be made available for viewing following the completion of each workshop. Viewing of recordings may not be substituted for participation in live workshops.

This workshop is a part of the MERC Virtual Workshop 2024 - Series 4.

This workshop helps participants prepare their data for analysis and be able to answer questions about their data that a statistician will likely ask when providing consultation. 

At the end of the workshop the participants will be able to:

1. Collect data;
2. Set up data files;
3. Enter data into data files;
4. Check and clean data prior to analysis;
5. Compare my sample to my population;
6. Address statistical issues discussed during consultation with a statistician (e.g., Type I & II errors, power, effect sizes).

Recordings will be made available for viewing following the completion of each workshop. Viewing of recordings may not be substituted for participation in live workshops.

This workshop is a part of the MERC Virtual Workshop 2024 - Series 4.

Faculty physician recruitment and retention continues to be one of the top challenges facing academic medical centers (AMCs). The AAMC has partnered once again with SullivanCotter, a nationally recognized consulting firm with deep expertise in the AMC space, to conduct a survey of AAMC-member institutions that was focused specifically on faculty physician recruitment and retention. During this webinar, SullivanCotter will present several findings from this survey, as well as provide industry perspectives and insights, and an overview of the changing workforce dynamics impacting physician recruitment, retention, and compensation strategy.

Panelists from AMCs will discuss the ways in which recruitment and retention have impacted their institutions and how they are addressing their challenges through both compensation and strategic workforce planning. We anticipate a highly engaging and robust discussion, given the overarching role that this topic has on compensation and strategy.

This webinar is hosted by the Group on Business Affairs (GBA) and the Group on Faculty Practice (GFP), and open to anyone working at an AAMC member institution.

Please use Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari on this registration site. Problems with registration? Questions about webinar registration can be directed to aamc@commpartners.com. Other questions can be directed to Shawn Rosen-Holtzman.

This workshop is intended for physicians and generalists in medical education, as well as faculty and staff involved in student affairs, who wish to develop perspectives and skills for collecting qualitative data, such as data from focus group discussions, interviews, observation field notes, and responses to open-ended questions—used in admissions processes, program development, curriculum evaluation, needs assessments, performance evaluation, and various scholarship and research applications.

After participating in this workshop, learners will be able to:

1. Demonstrate applied knowledge of the appropriate selection, use, and standards for rigor of some common methods for collection of qualitative data;
2. Generate research questions appropriate for qualitative studies and choose appropriate data collection methods;
3. Demonstrate applied knowledge of approaches to achieve rigor in the design of qualitative studies and collection of qualitative data;
4. Demonstrate essential skills required for conducting focus groups
   

Recordings will be made available for viewing following the completion of each workshop. Viewing of recordings may not be substituted for participation in live workshops.

This workshop is a part of the MERC Virtual Workshop 2024 - Series 4.

Join us as we launch the new Foundational Competencies in UME for U.S. Medical Schools! During this webinar, leaders from the three sponsoring organizations will share the new Foundational Competencies, how and why they were developed and next steps for advancing CBME in UME. Goals: To introduce the Foundational Competencies in UME for U.S. Medical Schools and to delineate future steps towards CBME in UME.

Please join the AAMC-Vizient Clinical Practice Solutions Center (CPSC) for a webinar discussing the calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, at 2:00pm (EDT). During this 60-minute webinar, AAMC and Vizient staff will present on payment provisions and other policies from the final rule. Topics include new payment rates for physician and other healthcare professionals for 2025, changes to evaluation and management services, impact analyses on payment for physician practices, changes to telehealth policies, behavioral health, and other payment policies. Participants will be able to ask questions once the presentation ends.

Phoebe Ramsey, JD
Director, Physician Payment & Quality

Phoebe Ramsey is the Director of Physician Payment & Quality Policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) focusing on issues relating to health care quality measurement, value-based care payment design, health equity, and health information technology. She also provides policy insight as a member of the AAMC Center for Health Justice’s Policy Team. Before joining the AAMC, she led the Next Generation and Pioneer ACO Model Teams at the CMS Innovation Center. Ms. Ramsey earned her law degree with honors from American University’s Washington College of Law, her bachelor’s degree with honors from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs, and is a member of the DC Bars.

Jenna Stern, JD
AVP, Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy

As AVP of Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy, Jenna Stern supports Vizient’s government relations, monitors federal regulatory and legislative developments, and helps communicate Vizient’s positions on developments that are most relevant to Vizient and its members. Jenna received her law degree with a concentration in health law from Case Western Reserve University and is a member of the Maryland and DC bars. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in health sciences from Brock University.

Ashley Fisher, MPA
Lead Analyst

Ashley supports Vizient’s Ambulatory Analytics team, specifically within the Clinical Practice Solutions Center’s (CPSC) delivery of custom productivity analyses, revenue insights, and operational services for departmental and physician group leaders of member organizations subscribed to AAMC-Vizient Inc. Clinical Practice Solutions Center (CPSC). Additionally, Ashley leads telehealth reporting and the annual APP benchmark generation. Ashley has been with Vizient for 6 years. Ashley earned a master's in public administration from Northern Illinois University and a BA in Political Science from Carroll University.

Ki Stewart, JD
Senior Analyst, Physician Payment & Quality

Ki Stewart is a Senior Policy and Regulatory Analyst specializing in physician payment and quality policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Her portfolio includes Medicare payment, telehealth, behavioral health, Veterans Affairs, and other issues. Prior to joining the AAMC, Ki worked as a federal contractor for the Department of Justice in the Civil Department, combatting Medicare fraud and abuse. She has also completed an externship with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Ki earned her JD with a concentration in Health Law from the University of Maryland Francis Carey School of Law and is a member of the D.C. and Maryland Bars. She earned her BA in Political Science from American University.