2024 Alliance Awards The call for nominations for the 2024 Alliance Awards program closed on June 9. The Alliance Awards honor faculty and staff in academic internal medicine for their exceptional achievements. Award recipients will be notified in August 2023. For more information, please...
AAIM Member Spotlight Shirley Wu, MD Shirley Wu, MD Associate Program Director Department of Medicine Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center How long have you been a member of AAIM? I’ve been a member for a year and a half since I became associate program director of the...
AAIM Member Spotlight April Barbour, MD Division Chief Department of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine Program Director, Primary Care Program George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences How long have you been a member of AAIM? I joined...
AAIM Member Spotlight David C. Thomas, MD, MHPE Vice Chair for Education Professor of Medicine Medical Education and Rehabilitation Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai How long have you been a member of AAIM? I’ve been a member for just over 5 years. I wasn’t...
High Value Care High value care is the best care for the patient, with the optimal result for the circumstances, delivered at the right price. (IOM: Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. ) AAIM is committed to enhancing "the education of...
AAIM Member Spotlight The Alliance turns the spotlight on members to highlight how they are making a difference and how they have benefited from AAIM membership. Share your story! To be highlighted on the AAIM website and in AAIM Connection, submit your (or a colleague's) story online or...
Milestones, EPAs, and NAS Tools & Resources Under the ACGME Next Accreditation System , program directors are seeking tools, templates, and information to operationalize the internal medicine milestones for the assessment of resident competence using entrustable professional activities (EPAs)....
Fellowship Training and Orientation Activity: No Earlier than July 1 AAIM believes that requiring residents to report for fellowship prior to the completion of residency training is disruptive to medical education, creates unnecessary stress on the residents, and risks violating federal labor...
Fellowship Letter of Recommendation (LOR) Guidelines The AAIM Guidelines for Fellowship Applicant Letters of Recommendation have improved the educational handover from residency to fellowship. When compared to letters that did not adhere to these guidelines, fellowship program directors found...
Aging As the first wave of baby-boomers turns 65, there is a shortage of geriatricians trained to care for them. Because of the shortage, an elderly patient will go to his or her specialists for most of their medical needs. Unfortunately, most specialists are not trained to care for the...