The American Medical Association has added 21 schools this year to its Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, most recently adding the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
The aim of the consortium, which was launched in 2013 with 11 medical schools, is to reshape medical education to prepare future physicians to care for patients in a 21st century health system.
The University of Chicago launched a new curriculum called VISTA this month with the help of a $75,000 grant from the AMA. Its new curriculum aims to provide medical students with an understanding of how medical care can be improved by health systems science, and it plunges medical students into the clinical setting right away, rather than in their third or fourth years.
"Since launching this effort three years ago, the AMA has led the way in developing bold, innovative ways to improve physician training. We are confident that students will emerge from medical school empowered and better prepared to serve patients," AMA CEO James Madara, MD, said in a statement. "We are excited to continue this work with some of the nation's leading innovators in medical education to create the medical school of the future — incorporating the newest technologies, healthcare reforms and scientific discoveries that continue to alter what physicians need to know to practice in the modern healthcare system."
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