Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) news and information

As the U.S. faces a shortage of physicians—potentially more than 90,000 by 2020—medical schools are seeking to counteract the deficiency with higher enrollments.
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A medical school partnership between Ochsner Health System and an Australian university has graduated its first nine students.
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Primary care was a winner in this year's National Resident Matching Program match day, with the number of students choosing primary-care specialties rising by nearly 400 to 7,328, according to the NRMP, which brings together specialty programs with applicants using a computer program based on the...
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Federal authorities and healthcare providers continue to wrestle with conflicts that might taint decisions about which drugs reach patients. Concerns persist even as new federal rules that seek to improve transparency among providers and drug and device manufacturers go into effect.
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Family medicine and other primary-care specialties topped the list of specialties chosen by this year's crop of graduating osteopathic medical students, according to the American Osteopathic Association's 2013 “match day” results.
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Dr. A. Lorris Betz, University of Utah senior vice president emeritus of health sciences, has been named chairman-elect of the 17-member Association of American Medical Colleges board of directors.
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Amid fears of a looming physician shortage, the number of medical school applications and enrolled students showed encouraging growth during the past year, according to newly released figures from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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No one seems satisfied that proposed healthcare reform-driven regulations have much improved the thorny issue of how to ensure that not-for-profit hospitals properly handle the financial side of treating the uninsured.
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If hospitals' bills to federal healthcare programs are increasing through the use of electronic health records, it may be because of improvements in documentation and a lack of national standards for gauging the intensity of some treatments, industry groups asserted in response to a critical letter...
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The advocacy group for the nation's medical schools came out this week in support of new legislation to fund 15,000 more residency slots.
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