October 12, 2006
UW welcomes AAMC annual meeting
Tina Mankowski
News & Community Relations
What do 3,300 people interested in academic medicine have in common? The 117th Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting.
Seattle is the site of this year’s AAMC meeting, and for six days — Oct.27 to Nov. 1 — individuals involved in academic medicine from around the country will meet to share ideas on the latest trends in medical student education, student recruitment, residency training and other issues related to medical education.
The keynote speaker, author and management educator Jim Collins, will kick off the meeting. Collins is the author of the best-sellers Good to Great and Built to Last. Nearly 400 meetings and sessions are planned with numerous UW faculty participating, including Paul Ramsey, dean of the School of Medicine.
Associate Vice President for UW Medicine Development Lynn Hogan is immediate past chair of the AAMC Group on Institutional Advancement. “This is a great opportunity for us to showcase the innovative programs of the school of medicine,” said Hogan. Meetings for those in institutional advancement, marketing, public affairs, government relations and planning are run concurrently with the AAMC meetings.
Conference activities will be held in the Washington State Convention and Trade Center and the Sheraton, Grand Hyatt and Westin hotels.
AAMC is the premiere medical education organization in the world. The group represents all 142 accredited medical schools in the U.S. and Canada as well as nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems. The organization has been instrumental in planning and promoting innovations and change in medical education, both for medical students and residents, as well as working closely with Congress and state leaders to foster better national health policies and health care budgets.
“This is the first time that the AAMC has held its annual meeting in Seattle,” said Kat Turner, vice president for membership and constituent services for AAMC. “We have about 150 displays in the Convention and Trade Center that allow schools and teaching hospitals to share their work as it relates to medical education.”
Other highlights include the Robert G. Petersdorf Lecture given by Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, speaking on Frontiers in Personalized Medicine; and a tour of UW Medicine’s Institute for Surgical and Interventional Simulation.
The UW School of Medicine will have eight exhibits at the convention center.
“One of our conference traditions is our Music in Medicine session that showcases the connection between the art of music and the art of medicine,” said Turner. “This year we will premiere a new musical work called Medical Records From a Physician’s Career.” A clarinet, piano and violin trio will perform three movements: “Fanfare for Education,” “Meditation on Patient Care” and “Pursuit of Research.”
Faculty and staff are invited to attend a UW School of Medicine reception held at the Sheraton from 6 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 29. Please RSVP by Oct. 16 to deanw@u.washington.edu. There is still time to register for the entire six-day program; single day registrations are also available. Go to www.aamc.org for registration information.
Academic Medicine features UW faculty
The October Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, devotes its entire issue to the UW School of Medicine. The journal features articles by faculty addressing challenges facing academic health centers.
Topics cover the UW’s innovative programs dealing with physician workforce shortages, meeting the needs of regional minority groups, professionalism in medical education, research programs for medical students, biomedical research, the public hospital mission at Harborview Medical Center, working across boundaries of health disciplines in education, research and service, and global health.
Dr. Erika Goldstein, UW associate professor of medicine, is one of the guest editors of the issue. This issue is published in conjunction with the 117th Association of American Medical Colleges annual meeting, to be held in Seattle Oct. 27 to Nov. 1.
The contents of the journal can be viewed online by subscribers http://www.academicmedicine.org. UW faculty staff, and students can access the journal articles through the UW Libraries system, available at http://www.lib.washington.edu/.
