UConn School of Medicine is among 20 U.S. medical schools recently chosen to receive $75,000 each from the nation’s top healthcare lobby to elevate and innovate education and training for the next generation of health practitioners.
The American Medical Association in Chicago announced that, with the addition of the 20, there are now 31 medical schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium.
Those 31 schools will support training for an estimated 18,000 medical students who will one day care for 31 million patients annually, AMA CEO James L. Madara M.D. said.
Eleven schools originally were consigned to the consortium when it launched in 2013. The newest additions were chosen via a competitive-grant process from among 170 eligible U.S. medical schools, Madara said. Boston’s Harvard Medical School was the only other New England institution among the 20.
“By tripling the number of schools participating in this effort,” Madara said in a statement, “we know that we will be able to more quickly disseminate the consortium schools’ innovative curriculum models to even more schools — leading to the type of seismic shift that the medical education system needs so that future physicians can better care for their patients.”
