Alliance News

Apr 1, 2022 | 1 min read

April 2022— Because the support of a DIO is critical to a successful education mission, the Alliance has again asked ACGME to strongly consider developing and implementing an assessment tool to objectively assess the performance of the DIO.

Nov 1, 2020 | 1 min read

November 2020—AAIM was invited to testify during the November 16 ACGME Congress on Program Support, which was convened by an ACGME Board of Directors Task Force to examine common and specialty-specific program requirements.

Oct 1, 2020 | 1 min read

October 2020— The Alliance commented October 23 on a proposed visa rule change from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security, that aims to change the process for certain nonimmigrant visa holders.

Aug 1, 2020 | 1 min read

August 2020—In the interest of identifying and developing an optimal approach to assess clinical skills for licensure, on July 10 NBME invited Alliance constituent organizations to share perspectives on the prior USMLE Step 2 CS exam.

Jun 4, 2020 | 2 min read

AAIM Supports African-American Internists, Staff, Learners, and CommunityAAIM expresses its horror and sadness in agreement with the rest of the world at the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.

Jun 1, 2020 | 1 min read

June 2020—AAIM expresses its horror and sadness in agreement with the rest of the world at the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.

Feb 10, 2020 | 1 min read

ABIM has released a letter clarifying how residents and fellows can demonstrat competence in the performance of invasive procedures.

Jan 31, 2020 | 1 min read

February 2020—USMLE announced today that score reporting for Step 1 will move from a three-digit numeric score to reporting only a pass/fail outcome.

Oct 15, 2019 | 1 min read

October 2019—The Alliance joined 305 organizations, institutions, and businesses  in signing a letter urging appropriators to work quickly to agree to provide a robust increase in funding for NIH in FY 2020.

Oct 1, 2019 | 1 min read

October 2019—At the request of the RC-IM, AAIM submitted language recommending required program administrator FTE equivalents in residency programs.

Sep 1, 2019 | 1 min read

September 2019—In June 2019, the ACGME Review Committee for Internal Medicine invited stakeholders to comment on three proposed paradigm shifts that were developed as part of the ACGME IM2035 scenario planning exercise.

Jul 15, 2019 | 1 min read

July 2019—The Alliance has submitted its unified response to the recommendations from the Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring.

Jul 1, 2019 | 1 min read

July 2019—Through the auspices of the AAMC GME Coalition, AAIM signed on to a letter urging Congress to pass either the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 or the Dream Act of 2019.

Jun 26, 2019 | 1 min read

June 2019—AAIM recently signed on to support the Opioid Workforce Act of 2019 (H.R. 3414).

Apr 16, 2019 | 1 min read

April 2019—The ABIM Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Boards proposed changes to the policies for dual certification in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine.Read the AAIM response 

Apr 1, 2019 | 1 min read

April 2019—The Alliance agrees with the ABIM Internal Medicine Board’s four recommendations that would remove the requirement for a common set of procedures to be performed by all residents for certification eligibility.Learn more

Apr 1, 2019 | 1 min read

April 2019—AAIM provided support for ACGME's proposed program requirements on administrator ratios as part of the comments on focused program requirement revisions.Learn more  

Apr 1, 2019 | 1 min read

April 2019—AAIM is part of the GME Coalition, which recently sent a letter to encourage Congressional leaders to cosponsor the “The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019” (S. 348, H.R. 1763).

Mar 1, 2019 | 1 min read

March 2019—AAIM offered recommendations to the ABIM Gastroenterology Board on approving a pilot program as an added pathway to Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology Certification.

Jan 1, 2019 | 1 min read

After several weeks of concentrated effort from multiple work groups, AAIM submitted its unified response to the recommendations from the Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring.