Please see Memorandum #13-07 (also shown below) from Dr. Darrell Kirch, AAMC President and CEO encouraging AAMC member institutions to support ACA related outreach efforts. This memo contains important information regarding medical schools, teaching hospitals, the Affordable Care Act, and open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Please see Memorandum #13-07 (also shown below) from Dr. Darrell Kirch, AAMC President and CEO encouraging AAMC member institutions to support ACA related outreach efforts. This memo contains important information regarding medical schools, teaching hospitals, the Affordable Care Act, and open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace. From Ally Anderson, AAMC-OSR Student & Community Service Program Director:
To assist students with travel costs for the Clinical Skills Exam, the AAMC has negotiated a special rate for examinees at hotels within close proximity of each of the exam sites. Please note that some of the hotels have listed blackout dates during which the negotiated rates are not applicable. Most of the hotels provide transportation for examinees to and from the airports/hotels (transportation reservations may be required in advance). Please visit the web site for more information: https://www.aamc.org/meetings/153904/clinicalskills_mtgs_homepage_teaser.html The rates are applicable through December 31, 2013. These rates are for all medical students. Thank you, Ally Ally Anderson, M.A. OSR Director, Student & Community Service Programs Association of American Medical Colleges 2450 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Another video series from the AAMC's YouTube channel, this series of four videos addresses multiple topics including:
An article was recently published in American Medical News discussing the concerning decrease in African-American men both applying and matriculating to medical school. This runs contrary to the significant double digit percentage gains for most other groups. Interestingly, African-Americans have the largest gender gap in medicine.
"Twice as many African-American women as men applied to medical school, and black women accounted for nearly two-thirds of black students who were accepted and eventually matriculated. That disparity translates into graduation rates, with 63% of new black MDs in 2011 being women" (O'Reilly). Source: http://www.amednews.com/article/20130225/profession/130229975/2/ Below is the 2012 edition of the Physicians Education Debt and the Cost to Attend Medical School document published by the AAMC. This document builds upon the original 2007 publication with the most recently available 2012 data, as well as fresh interpretations of these data. Included within are breakdowns between public v. private schools, discussion of the average rate of tuition increases with respect to economic inflation, and also mentions of indebtedness with respect to gender, race/ethnicity, scholarship recipients, and family income. Arguably the most interesting item addressed in this document is the expansive discussion of the role of debt in specialty choice (p.17). As table 9 demonstrates, the data shows little correlation between student indebtedness and specialty selection by earning potential.
Hit the jump for the full document! Below is an memorandum excerpt from Dr. Darrell Kirch, the President-CEO of the AAMC. Stay tuned for a direct link to the "Physicians Education Debt and the Cost to Attend Medical School 2012 Update," arriving in a later post. Memorandum #13-02 Wondering what the AAMC has been up to over the past year? Struggling to keep up with the dozens of activities constantly simmering within this broad organization? Well here is your answer! The 2012 AAMC Annual Report is a compilation of all the AAMC's policy updates, public initiatives, meetings, advocacy efforts, and more. To name just a few of the updates contained within this document:
Dr. Darrell Kirch, President of the AAMC, has just released his most recent update regarding "The Sequester," and what it means for AAMC members and affiliates. He details how under the current plan, as of March 1st, 2013, there will be cuts totaling 5.1% to the NIH, and 2% to GME. Below I have included excerpts from this letter as well as letters referenced by Dr. Kirch within his memo.
Navigating the complex system of Medicare is confusing enough; but simultaneously learning to comprehend Medicare and renal physiology? Forget about it! Newly updated for the 2013 year, and packed with relevant ACA-tidbits, this publication by the AAMC is an exceptionally important and valuable resource that every medical student should know about. It's only 11 pages long, and formatted in a helpful bullet-pointed Q&A format. Below I've included both a link to the AAMC website as well as a direct PDF download from this page. Check it out because it's ̶g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶d̶a̶y̶ affecting you right now. Sample questions include: 3. Why is it important for a medical student to understand how Medicare pays hospitals for DGME? 7. How does a hospital count residents to receive money from Medicare? 9. Can you give an example of what these rules mean in determining how much DGME funding the hospital will receive? 12. I completed a year of clinical training after medical school, and now I am fulfilling a military commitment. How does the IRP limit affect me? From Ally Anderson of the AAMC: The AAMC just published an updated version of its guide entitled Medicare Payments for Graduate Medical Education: What Every Medical Student, Resident and Advisor Needs to Know. (This updates the version last published in 2006.) The brochure briefly describes how Medicare pays teaching hospitals for graduate medical education and discusses the impact that the payment system may have on an individual resident.
To: AAMC Group Program Leaders
Subject: Urge Group Members to Tell Congress that Sequestration Cuts Will Harm the Nation’s Health Colleagues, I hope you will join us in asking your members to use the AAMC’s fully-automated, “single-click” on-line advocacy tool to send emails to their Members of Congress expressing serious concerns about the impact of pending sequestration (across-the-board cuts in federal spending) mandated by the Budget Control Act (BCA) and effective January 1, 2013. As you may know, these cuts would reduce federal support for Medicare GME, NIH research grants, primary care and diversity development programs, and other programs that are important to academic medicine. At http://www.capwiz.com/aamc/, constituents will find three letters they can quickly sign and send to Congress simply by entering their name and home address. They should use personal emails and computers (i eNOT work emails and institutional computers) to send these messages. The letters address: looming cuts to Medicare payments and GME support; NIH research funding; and primary care and diversity workforce development programs. All the letters urge Congress to work on a solution that avoids sequestration and the devastating impact across-the-board cuts will have on programs that benefit all Americans. |