The Future of Medical Education

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Morgan Passiment  
Director of Information Resources Outreach,
Association of American Medical Colleges [AAMC]
Washington, DC
 

Morgan Passiment serves as the Director of Information Resources Outreach at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The AAMC represents medical schools, teaching hospitals, academic and professional societies, faculty, residents, and students in the United States and Canada. In her role at the AAMC she develops resources and cultivates opportunities for information leaders to improve and enhance the academic healthcare environment through strategic use of information tools. Her primary emphasis has been on the management of information, strategic planning, health policy and organizational effectiveness. Ms. Passiment has directed a wide variety of successful leadership programs and work groups that provide academic health centers with resources to meet the challenges of a diverse healthcare environment and sometimes conflicting needs of medical education, research, patient care and administration.

References for session:

A Vision of Students Today (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Virtual Medical Center (blog)
http://scienceroll.com/2007/04/24/virtual-medical-center-the-future-of-m
edical-education/

The Future of Medical Education (article)
http://www.military-medical-technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=1060

The AAMC and the medical schools, teaching hospitals, academic and professional societies, faculty, residents, and students we represent are committed to improving the nation's health through medical education, research, and high-quality patient care. We are dedicated to the communities we serve, committed to advancing the public good, and steadfast in our desire to earn and keep the public's trust for the role we are privileged to play in our society.

http://www.aamc.org