In this section, AAIM outlines six priority policy issues around which many organization activities focus. The six policy issues that inform the alliance's policy development, advocacy, and services and initiatives efforts are:
Education: The alliance aims to influence and improve the policies of the federal government, non-governmental regulators, and institutions as they relate to accreditation, certification, education funding, and the content of medical education.
Research: AAIM supports departments of internal medicine at US medical schools and teaching hospitals as they conduct a significant portion of the nation's biomedical and health services research. Support includes advocacy for appropriate research funding and sound regulation.
Patient Care: AAIM commits itself to enhancing the quality and accessibility of clinical care delivered by academic internists through identifying best practices and educating alliance members about advances in related fields.
Workforce: AAIM analyzes methods and develops recommendations for expanding the physician workforce, specifically those recommendations that aim to attract physicians-in-training to careers in internal medicine.
Aging: Through two major initiatives, AAIM and its member organizations pursue efforts to better prepare internists to care for the increasing number of elderly patients.
Diversity: AAIM projects and initiatives support enhancing medical school and teaching hospital department and division diversity to reflect the growing diversity of the nation's population.