AAMC President Calls on Academic Medicine To Accept "The Innovation Imperative" [Top of Page]

AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., urged leaders of the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals to be "the standard bearers" for innovation in health care delivery. He also stated that “in medical education, we have left a time in which each faculty member owned his or her own lecture—all too often using outdated 35 mm slides—and now operate in a Web-based, interactive world. Today, much of the disruptive innovation in medical education takes the form of cutting-edge technology to teach and assess our learners. We use tools ranging from our own AAMC MedEdPORTAL®; to high-tech simulators right outside the operating room; to creating lifelong, Web-based e-Portfolios to assess competence.” (Nov. 8, 2009) More>>

2009 MedEdPORTAL Outstanding Reviewer Awards [Top of Page]

During the 2009 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting the MedEdPORTAL team announced the recipients of the annual Outstanding Reviewer Award. MedEdPORTAL reviewers and the peer review process serve as important quality gatekeepers for MedEdPORTAL publications. While often unrecognized, the critical appraisal of submissions by reviewers is vital to the success of peer-reviewed publications such as MedEdPORTAL.

The Association of American Medical Colleges and MedEdPORTAL recognize the following ten outstanding peer reviewers for their commitment to the MedEdPORTAL peer review process and their exemplary efforts as MedEdPORTAL reviewers.

To view a listing of all MedEdPORTAL peer reviewers, please click here: Peer Reviewers

MedBiquitous Annual Conference and 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients [Top of Page]

The Scientific Committee for the MedBiquitous Annual Conference and 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients is seeking high-quality abstracts for panel presentations and technology demonstrations related to virtual patients, e-learning resources, and social networking and their use for health education. The conference will take place April 26-28, 2010 in London.

Abstracts are due November 14, 2009 and may be submitted online at www.medbiq.org/icvp.