Grants Database

This award supports the development of a task force to explore the implications of the shift from solo practitioner, self-employed, and fee-for-service physicians to group practitioners and salaried physicians and how these changes affect medical professionalism. The task force will make actionable policy recommendations that promote standards of professionalism in the emerging physician practice models.

This award supports the Gold Humanism Honor Society biennial conference, “Advancing Humanism in the Age of Technology.” The conference brings together members from 110 schools of medicine and 10 residency programs that have demonstrated the values of humanistic patient care. Throughout the conference, attendees will have opportunities to network with other members and medicine’s leading thinkers, academics, and practitioners; participate in professional and humanistic development programming; and assess each individual’s ability to promote culture change towards humanism within an institution.

This award supports the AMA fall 2014 convening, “Accelerating Change in Medical Education: Adaptive Learning Models for Competency-based and Clinical Education Redesign.” The convening brings together 11 schools, which were awarded grants from the AMA for innovative changes in medical education. The focus of the meeting will be on Vanderbilt University’s work, as an AMA grantee, on adaptive learning focusing on clinical skills and the clinical environment.

This award supports Grand Rounds trainings at up to 15 health care institutions on LGBT health issues. The trainings will focus on the importance of removing barriers to accessing affirmative and quality care for people in the LGBT community and the need for all primary care providers to take a history of sexual health—an area much neglected in medical education but critical to understanding a broad range of issues including the sexual orientation and gender identity of people seen in a health care provider’s office.

This award supports the 2014 Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit and three regional trainings for health professions students. The Summit will convene a team of coaches, change-management experts, and practicing primary care clinicians to provide health professional trainees (medicine, nursing, physician assistant, and others) with leadership and advocacy skills to develop a new generation of primary care leaders.

This award supports the All Together Better Health VII conference that is being hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. The goal of the conference, which draws a large international audience, is to advance interprofessional education and collaborative practice toward the goals of improved patient care experience (including health outcomes and patient satisfaction); improved health of populations and health equity; and added value in healthcare delivery and education (through improved quality and reduced costs).