Medical Education
Resources for Medical Educators
Scholarship | Teaching | Meetings
Scholarship
- AACH: American Academy on Communication in Healthcare
- AAMC: American Academy of Medical Colleges
- AAIM: Alliance for Academy Internal Medicine
- ACGME: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
- AERA: American Educational Research Association
- AMA: American Medical Association
- AMIA: American Medical Informatics Association
- AMME: Association for Medical Education in Europe
- ASME: Association for Study of Medical Education
- ASPE: Association of Standardized Patient Educators
- BEME: Best Evidence Medical Education Collaboration
- EACH: European Association for Communication in Health Care
- GAME: Global Alliance for Medical Education
- Generalists in Medical Education
- IAMSE: International Association of Medical Science Educatiors
- MEIG: Medical Education Interest Group at Emory University
- NCME: National Council on Measurement in Education
- Ottowa Conferences: Ottawa Conferences on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions
- SGIM: Society of General Internal Medicine
- SHM: Society of Hospital Medicine
- BEME: Best Evidence Medical Education
- Carnie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Emory's Center for Interactive Technology (ECIT)
- Emory University Center for Faculty Development and Excellence
- BMJ Education Series
- JAMAevidence
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching
Resources for Learners
- AMEE's Essential Skills in Medical Education: Sponsored by The Association for Medical Education in Europe, this course addresses the basic skills and competencies of medical educators to make them effective instructors.
- Careers in Medicine for Advisors: AAMC's site is specifically for the medical school faculty, staff member, or specially trained 3rd and 4th year medical student peer advisors whose role is to advise medical students as they choose their career paths. The site offers a variety of toolkits and other resources to help the advisor.
- Educause: "Nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology."
- Harvard Macy Institute: With a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Havard Macy Institute was beguin in 1994 as a joint collaboration among the Schools of Medicine, Graduate School of Education, and Business School at Harvard University. The Institute's mission is to "develop the strategies and skills required to lead organizational change and drive innovation" in health care education.
- IDEA Center Notes on Learning: "Nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve colleges and universities committed to improving learning, teaching, and leadership performance."
- Med2014 blog: EBM Resources for the SOM Class of 2014.
- MERC: "The Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program is intended to provide the knowledge necessary to understand the purposes and processes of medical education research, to become informed consumers of the medical education research literature, and to be effective collaborators in medical education research. Alone, MERC is not intended to produce independent medical education researchers."
Research in Medical Education
Author Support | Med Ed Journals| Databases
- EndNote: Bibliographic software that helps you get your bibliography in order for publication.
- QUOSA: Information Manager that allows you to search, organize, share, and analyze pdfs and other data formats.
- Instruction to Authors in Health Sciences: University of Toledo's Mulford Health Science Library's page that links to 6,000 journals' instructions to authors.
- Decide where to submit: Use Web of Science's Journal Citation Reports to determine high impact factor journals.
- NIH Publication Guidelines: Guidelines for grant funded publications
- Find collaborators in your field: Use Web of Science and Community of Science to find discover others with similar interests



