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Celebrating the 2025 AAMC Award Winners

Throughout their careers, these academic medicine faculty have had an outsize impact on medical education, the biomedical sciences, and patient care.

  • Oct. 23, 2025
Faisal Al-Juburi
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As immigration enforcement increases, so do health risks to detainees, advocate says

Faisal Al-Juburi, of legal aid nonprofit RAICES, sounds the alarm about the inhumane treatment of detained immigrants.

  • Oct. 21, 2025
Doctors looking at medical results on a laptop in a meeting at the hospital
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Medical schools train faculty on AI best practices

Faculty are training one another to understand artificial intelligence and use it to build curricula, develop quizzes, create presentations, and more.

  • Oct. 16, 2025
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Hospital food gets a healthy makeover

From hiring Michelin-star chefs to sourcing produce from local farmers, academic health systems are transforming their culinary services to help patients heal.

  • Oct. 14, 2025

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A pulmonologist lost his home in the LA wildfires. Then he opened a clinic for his neighbors

A pulmonologist reflects on how living through a disaster and treating its victims has shaped his practice.

  • July 23, 2025
Ashraf Elsayegh’s home that was destroyed during the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 2025.
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Medical schools should help students exercise free speech while upholding professional standards

Schools need policies and teachings to help students make themselves heard on education and social issues. It’s not easy.

  • Nov. 9, 2024
Lisa Worley, BS, far right, shares what she tells medical students about how to speak out effectively and responsibility. Listening are (from far left) Lauren Cobbs, MD; James Woodruff, MD; Loretta Jackson-Williams, MD, PhD; Setu Mehta; and Katherine Chretien, MD.
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Medical schools work to end student mistreatment

From public humiliation to sexist remarks, medical trainees often experience faculty mistreatment. Here’s how institutions are working to stop bad behaviors.

  • June 4, 2024
woman with scrubs sitting on the floor
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Thousands of medical residents are unionizing. Here’s what that means for doctors, hospitals, and the patients they serve

Medical residents often bemoan long hours and relatively low wages. Now, a growing number are unionizing, which observers say brings benefits — and drawbacks.

  • June 7, 2022
The Resident and Fellow Physician Union-Northwest stages a 15-minute walkout at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center in February during contract negotiations.
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10 great summer reads for doctors — or anyone interested in medicine

From the immune system’s intricacies to cadavers as crash test dummies, these books cover the humorous, strange, and meaningful aspects of medicine.

  • July 6, 2021
Young girl reading e-book in a hammock
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Words of wisdom for new residents

An astronaut, a medical school president, an Emmy winner, and other successful doctors share practical tips and meaningful insights for incoming interns.

  • June 22, 2021
Team of scientists working in a lab during the pandemic - Caucasian senior male, Caucasian young woman and a Mixed race woman.
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What every doctor needs to know about telemedicine

Telemedicine soared during the pandemic, and experts say it’s here to stay. How can providers and future physicians prepare to provide quality care from afar?

  • March 24, 2021
Kimberly Noel, MD, MPH, talks to a patient through a computer in her office
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Is it ever okay to jump to the front of the vaccine line? An ethics expert weighs in

Renowned bioethicist Arthur Caplan, PhD, offers advice on how to make the COVID-19 vaccine rollout more equitable, ethical, and trustworthy.

  • March 23, 2021
A group of people standing in a socially distant line leading to a COVID-19 vaccine bottle
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Finding my community on #GayMedTwitter

A physician-in-training argues that social media can help marginalized groups in medicine find needed support and validation.

  • March 16, 2021
A doctor in scrubs leans against a wall and looks at his phone
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Ann Curry: Empathy can save lives

Veteran reporter Ann Curry urged attendees at the AAMC annual meeting to consider how deep listening and meaningful connection serve patients — and physicians.

  • Nov. 17, 2020
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