AMA News Release (10/13/22) Murphy, Brendan

A recent American Medical Association Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium conference highlighted the importance of inter-institutional collaboration in transforming medical education. Attendees detailed programs that share the goal of preparing physicians to work in rural and underserved areas. The University of North Carolina School of Medicine's Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training and the Oregon Health & Science University and University of California, Davis School of Medicine's California Oregon Medical Partnership to Address Disparities in Rural Education programs promote mentorship. Both programs have partnered on research to identify success factors and challenges for trainees and faculty. Meanwhile, Indiana University School of Medicine's Regenstrief Institute collaborated with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine on the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Clinical Learning Platform. The partnership sought to create clinical content based on actual patient data that is better aligned with the needs of UConn's patient community. Students' difficulty in absorbing fragmented and sometimes clashing EHR information signaled the need for shared understanding between the schools. "We figured out ways to work with one another to problem-solve, and come forward with solutions and products that are still valuable and serve some important goals that we'd initially intended, but not all of them," said Bradley Allen, MD, PhD, IU's senior associate dean for medical student education.

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