Past Conference Database
Below are links to information on past Macy Foundation conferences, includes recommendations reports, commissioned papers, conference monographs, and other related materials, including audio resources (where available), from 2007 to present day.
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2024
2024 Conference: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Education
Experts from multiple professions came together to examine the opportunities and challenges of integrating artificial intelligence into health professions education, resulting in consensus recommendations published in Academic Medicine, a webinar series with the AAMC, and a grants program to guide health professionals, educators, and institutions to use AI ethically.
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2022
2022 Conference: Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment
This convening developed a shared vision for an optimal learner assessment system that supports diversity, equity, and belonging in medical education. Their recommendations, published in Academic Medicine, expand on related recommendations from the 2020 conference on eliminating harmful bias and discrimination in health professions learning environments (see below).
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2021
2021 Conference: COVID-19 and the Impact on Medical and Nursing Education
Faculty, learners, and health professions education leaders gathered to examine lessons learned during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resulting recommendations called for advancing competency-based and interprofessional education, adopting more holistic admissions practices, and strengthening preparedness for future crises that may disrupt health professions training.
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2020
2020 Conference: Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments
Recommendations were developed to address harmful bias and eliminate discrimination in the nation’s health professions schools. Among the recommendations—developed by a group of more than 40 HPE leaders, faculty, and students—is the need for formal health disparities curricula and anti-racism training programs for faculty and learners.
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2018
2018 Conference: Improving Environments for Learning in the Health Professions
The Macy Foundation hosted a conference to identify the elements of optimal health professions learning environments and recommend actions needed to better align them with patient needs and societal goals for better health. The comprehensive recommendations are addressed to governance board members, executive leaders, faculty members, policymakers, accreditation organization leaders, and educational researchers; all are called to support and sustain exemplary learning environments.
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2017
2017 Conference: Achieving Competency-Based, Time-Variable Health Professions Education
The Macy Foundation conference explored the potential and examined the current state of competency-based, time-variable HPE. During the conference, health professions educators in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, as well as experts in educational theory and reform, medical residents, and education and residency program accreditors, developed recommendations to accelerate the implementation of competency-based, time-variable HPE.
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2016
2016 Conference: Registered Nurses: Partners in Transforming Primary Care
The 2016 conference explored opportunities to increase the nation’s primary care capacity by expanding the role of registered nurses (RNs). Conferees generated actionable recommendations around the potential for RNs to help meet the needs of primary care.
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2015
2015 Conference: Enhancing Health Professions Education through Technology
During this conference, participants developed recommendations for health professions schools and health care organizations around use of existing and emerging technologies that can enhance health professions education and help build a continuously learning health system.
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2014
2014 Conference: Partnering with Patients, Families, and Communities: An Urgent Imperative for Health Care
Recommendations were developed for the urgent reform of both health professions education and health care practice in partnership with patients, families, and communities. The purpose was to help change the focus of ongoing discussions about transforming health care by placing patients and their families at the center of the conversation.
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2013
2013 Conference: Transforming Patient Care: Aligning Interprofessional Education with Clinical Practice Redesign
This conference sought to connect clinical practice reforms with changes underway in HPE, which resulted in recommendations to align interprofessional education and collaborative, team-based clinical practice as a means to improve patient care and outcomes.
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2012
2012 Conference: Interprofessional Education
The Macy Foundation convened all of its grantees involved in efforts to advance interprofessional education (IPE) for the purposes of sharing their work, including successes and challenges; identifying opportunities for collaboration; and discussing directions for future work in IPE.
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2011
2011 Conference: Ensuring an Effective Physician Workforce for the United States #2: Recommendations for Graduate Medical Education to Meet the Needs of the Public
Co-sponsored by the Macy Foundation and the Association of Academic Health Centers, the meeting resulted in a set of sweeping recommendations regarding the content and format of GME to ensure that physicians are trained more effectively and efficiently to meet public needs.
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2010
2010 Conference: Ensuring an Effective Physician Workforce for America: Recommendations for an Accountable Graduate Medical Education System
The Macy Foundation partnered with the Association of Academic Health Centers to co-sponsor the first of two conferences to develop recommendations regarding the future of graduate medical education (GME) in the United States. The goal of this first conference was to review the status of GME from a policy perspective, including the regulation, financing, and “sizing” of GME.
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2010
2010 Conference: Who Will Provide Primary Care And How Will They Be Trained?
The Macy Foundation assembled a diverse group of health professionals in 2010 to address a critical question in health care: who will provide primary care and how will they be trained? During the conversation, participants identified overarching themes that led directly to recommendations designed to improve the training of all primary care providers for the benefit of all patients.
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2009
2009 Conference: Developing a Strong Primary Care Workforce
Focusing on the nation’s health care workforce, the meeting’s participants unanimously agreed that the ideal model for primary care in the 21st century would include extensive collaboration among teams of caregivers and that changes would be needed in health professionals’ education to achieve this goal.