AAMC CFASIntroducing the

Association of American Medical Colleges

Council of Faculty and Academic SocietiesUTMB, May 2015

AAMC

AAMC Faculty Resources

•Policy and Advocacy

•Learning and Leadership

•Capacity-Building Programs

•Leading-Edge Data, Analytics and Research

•Timely, Critical, and Focused Communications and Publications

AAMC History and Composition

•Founded 1876

•Not-for-profit association

•All 141 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools

•400 major teaching hospitals and health systems

•51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers

•90 academic and scientific societies.

•128,000 faculty members

•110,000 resident physicians

•75,000 medical students

AAMC Faculty Representation

Council of Academic Societies

Formed 1966

Purpose:

“This council should provide for all participation of faculty representatives, selected for their broad interest in education for health and medical sciences. It should be concerned primarily with matters of curriculum, education content, and educational methods.”

Planning for Medical Progress Through Education

1965 report to the AAMC

Council of Faculty and Academic Societies

Formed 2013

Purpose:

“To ensure the full range of faculty voices is more clearly heard within the AAMC”

•Identify critical issues facing faculty of medical schools

•Provide a voice for those faculty

•Serve as a communications conduit

CFAS Home

https://www.aamc.org/members/cfas/

UTMB CFAS Representatives

Barbara L. Thompson, MDProfessor and Chair

Sealy Hutchings and Lucille Wright Hutchings Chair Department of Family Medicinebathomps@utmb.edu

Susan D. McCammon, MDAssociate Professor

Jehu Matthew Robison Distinguished ProfessorDepartment of Otolaryngologysdmccamm@utmb.edu

CFAS Meetings and Charge

AAMC Annual Meeting

November 6-10, 2015, Baltimore, MD

2016 CFAS Spring Meeting

March 3-5, 2016, Salt Lake City, Utah

UTMB Pre-meeting activities

•Introduce faculty to CFAS

•faculty senate, chairs, individual department meetings

•Web-based survey of all faculty to identify concerns

•Faculty focus groups for further discussion

UTMB Post-meeting activities

•Web-based update on council discussion and actions

•Faculty Senate

CFAS CHARGE

REPRESENTATION

• Actively solicit and represent concerns of faculty from medical school to CFAS

COMMUNICATION

• Bi-directional• Provide regular reports of CFAS activities,

especially after formal CFAS meetings to governance of sponsoring medical school

ADVOCACY

• Actively communicate vital AAMC and CFAS policy statements and initiatives to academic, community, and legislative leadership

bathomps@utmb.edu

sdmccamm@utmb.edu