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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

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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

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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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AAMC Releases New Report Detailing Impact of Federal Actions on Academic Medicine

A new AAMC report sounds the alarm about the impact of federal actions on academic medicine and the U.S. health care system.

June 11, 2025

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U.S. House Members Introduce Resolution Designating Sept. 16-20 as Medical Research Week

The House declares Sept. 16-20 as Medical Research Week.

Sept. 18, 2024

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We need more Black women in the biomedical sciences

Black women represent less than 7% of doctoral candidates in science and engineering, and less than 9% of the STEM workforce. We can do better.

July 23, 2024

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Meet the AAMC’s new Chief Scientific Officer

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, joins the AAMC from the UCSF School of Medicine. She shares her thoughts on the challenges facing scientists today.

July 16, 2024

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Celebrating a distinguished career in scientific research and medicine

The AAMC’s chief scientific officer, Ross McKinney Jr., MD, reflects on four decades in academic medicine and the challenges ahead.

Oct. 31, 2023

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New AAMC think tank to pursue workable solutions to long-standing health care problems

The pandemic has revealed the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. health care system. The AAMC Research and Action Institute will seek solutions.

April 29, 2021

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Research recovery: Medicine’s newest scientists restart careers stalled by COVID-19

Postdocs have returned to their labs, but experiments are moving slowly. Schools and some federal agencies are seeking ways to help them make up for lost time.