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 Dear Colleague:

Fiscal Year 2024 was another amazing year for the Alliance—thanks to you, we enjoyed a membership renewal that exceeded 100% and hosted the largest-ever Academic Internal Medicine Week 2025 in Columbus!

The commitment to collaboration is the largest factor in the Alliance’s success: collaboration within the academic internal medicine community across the broad variety of institutions and programs; collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that regulations and requirements serve the needs of programs, faculty, staff, and the future physician workforce; and collaboration within the larger medicine community, including our peers in other disciplines, osteopathic medicine, and the subspecialty societies.

Please take a moment to enjoy just a few of the accomplishments in FY 2024. The Alliance leaders and staff thank you for your support of the organization and its initiatives. We are Even Better Together!

Sincerely, 

Polly E. Parsons, MD, MACP, FCCP, ATSF
President and CEO
Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine 

A Few More Numbers
 

6,059
Registrants for 57 Alliance webinars and town halls

500
Volunteers recognized during April’s National Volunteer Appreciation Month

111
Volunteers raised their hands to serve on FY 2024 Alliance and association committees

210
Alliance Ambassadors

20
Members honored in the 2024 Alliance Awards Program

Highlights from FY 2024

• Hosted the largest-ever Academic Internal Medicine Week in Columbus, OH; there were 2,975 registrants (including more than 1,000 chief residents), 640 speakers, and 21 partners for five precourses, 20 plenaries, 125 workshops, and 127 posters.
• In addition, the Alliance held successful APM Winter Meeting 2024 and 2023 APDIM Fall Meeting, bringing members together for valuable education and networking with peers.
• Increased internal medicine’s program signals to 15 and introduced tiering for the 2024-2025 residency application cycle: three gold and 12 silver.
• Released guidance recommending programs conduct all residency and fellowship interviews virtually.
• Released a template individualized learning plan (ILP) to bridge the UME to GME transition for newly matched interns.
• Launched Foundations of Academic Internal Medicine for Department and Division Administrators course, adding to AAIM’s suite of online learning options.
• Encouraged all internal medicine residency programs and internal medicine subspecialty fellowship programs to accept Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examinations (COMLEX-USA) results as equivalent to USMLE scores.
• Introduced the Learning Library, providing subscribers 12 months of unlimited access to the best educational content the Alliance offers through its in-person conferences, webinars, and other career development opportunities.
• Announced the launch of the AAIM Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct, fostering integrity, excellence and a safe and inclusive environment for all members, guests, registrants, and partners who participate in AAIM events and initiatives.
• Joined the NAM Change Maker Campaign to support health workforce well being.
• Joined more than 20 organizations to support a roadmap developed by the Action to Build Clinical Confidence and Culture Coalition to improve the health care of 14 million Americans who have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
• Recommended ACGME to change the title from “program coordinator” to “program administrator” in the Common Program Requirements.