PURPOSE The medical student performance evaluation (MSPE), a letter summarizing academic performance, is included in each medical student's residency application. The extent to which medical schools follow Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recommendations for comparative and transparent data is not known. This study's purpose was to describe the content, interpretability, and tran...

In spite of best efforts by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the American Medical Association (AMA), and other national groups, entering medical students remain a relatively homogeneous group, with many backgrounds underrepresented. Although the combined percentage of people in the US from African American, Native American, and Hispanic backgrounds is 31 percent [1], only ro...

p0180 Medical educators have a major responsibility to evaluate the clinical skills of trainees and to provide them with timely, useful feedback to ensure continued progress and correction of deficiencies. Despite tremendous advances in technology, the basic clinical skills of interviewing, physical examination, and counseling remain essential to the successful care of patients. The Association...

n engl j med 368;17 nejm.org april 25, 2013 1565 as the core of medical education.1 Admissions committees at U.S. medical schools have, for the past century, focused their attention largely on predictors of success in the foundational science curriculum, relying heavily on academic performance in the biologic and physical sciences and scores on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) in selec...

Valuing faculty as educators is essential for medical schools to fulfill their unique mission of educating physicians. The 2006 Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Educational Affairs, provided educators seeking academic promotion with a portfolio-based format for documenting activities in five domains, using...

Based on a survey of the teaching staff in 20 Vocational College of Shandong Province, the present paper described the current research situation of vocational colleges in China with detailed figures and proposed strategies to strengthen the scientific research management of vocational colleges.

Collaborative innovation takes knowledge increment as the core, and focuses on realizing the effective goal by means of “synergy” and “collaboration”. Under the idea of collaborative innovation, colleges should construct collaborative mechanism among the government, colleges and companies to promote enterprise education reform, break through the predicaments, and encourage the internalization a...

High-school seniors have a worry: Will their Facebook or MySpace pages count against them in college admissions? A new survey of 500 top colleges found that 10 percent of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social-networking sites to evaluate applicants. Of those colleges making use of the online information, 38 percent said that what they saw “negatively affected” their views of the ap...