The Alliance collaborates with other major medical societies and organizations to advance organizational priorities and advocate for issues important to members. Keep updated on the latest AAIM successes and take action on key policy issues affecting academic internal medicine.
Keep updated on the latest AAIM successes and take action on key policy issues affecting academic internal medicine.
Research Funding
On the issue of research funding, AAIM collaborates with the following partners: AAMC, ACP, FASEB, Research!America, and SGIM. Select advocacy policies, tools, and resources can be found below.
Coalitions
The Alliance participates in select AAMC Coalitions on behalf of its members.
Toolkits & Resources
AAIM curates a number of additional advocacy toolkits and resources relevant to the internal medicine community.
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GME Advocacy Coalition Letter to the Senate Finance Committee Working Group on GME
Jun 1, 2024 | 1 min read
June 2024 - The 50 members of the Graduate Medical Education Advocacy Coalition (GMEAC) responded to the Bipartisan Medicare Graduate Medical Education (GME) Working Group’s Draft Proposal Outline and Questions for Consideration.
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AAIM Joins the Friends of HRSA Coalition in Supporting the Inclusion of at Least $10.5B for HRSA Programs from FY 2025 Discretionary Funds
Apr 1, 2024 | 1 min read
April 2024 - AAIM joins more than 80 organizations as the Friends of HRSA coalition in urging discretionary funds for Heath Resources and Services Administration programs in FY 2025, matching the coalition's amount from FY 2024.
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AAIM Supports Acceptance of the COMLEX-USA as Equivalent to the USMLE
Feb 29, 2024 | 1 min read
March 2024 - The AAIM encourages all Internal Medicine residency programs and Internal Medicine subspecialty fellowship programs, in their holistic review of applicants, to accept that the COMLEX-USA results are equivalent to the USMLE
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The Alliance Signs On to Reject Cuts to Non-Defense Discretionary Funding in FY 2024 Deal
Dec 31, 2023 | 1 min read
January 2024 - AAIM joined 1,098 local, state, and national organizations in a letter calling on Congress to reject a full year CR that would result in cuts to non-defense discretionary programs and adopt the bipartisan Senate funding framework.
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The Alliance Joins NAM Change Maker Campaign for Health Workforce Well-Being
Oct 1, 2023 | 1 min read
October 2023 - In October 2022, The National Academy of Medicine released the National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being to drive collective action to strengthen health workforce well-being.
Stakeholders
AAIM maintains many partnerships geared toward advancing all facets of academic internal medicine.
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
- American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
- American College of Physicians (ACP)
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
- Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
- Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)
- Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM)