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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
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