AAMC CFAS
Introducing the
Association of American Medical Colleges
Council of Faculty and Academic Societies
UTMB, May 2015
AAMC
AAMC History and Composition
AAMC Faculty Resources
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Founded 1876
•Policy and Advocacy
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Not-for-profit association
•Learning and Leadership
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All 141 accredited U.S. and 17
accredited Canadian medical schools
•Capacity-Building Programs
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400 major teaching hospitals and health
systems
•Leading-Edge Data, Analytics and
Research
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51 Department of Veterans Affairs
medical centers
•Timely, Critical, and Focused
Communications and Publications
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90 academic and scientific societies.
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128,000 faculty members
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110,000 resident physicians
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75,000 medical students
AAMC Faculty Representation
Council of Academic Societies
Council of Faculty and Academic Societies
Formed 1966
Formed 2013
Purpose:
Purpose:
“This council should provide for all
participation of faculty representatives,
selected for their broad interest in education
for health and medical sciences. It should be
concerned primarily with matters of
curriculum, education content, and
educational methods.”
“To ensure the full range of faculty voices is
more clearly heard within the AAMC”
•Identify critical issues facing faculty of
medical schools
•Provide a voice for those faculty
•Serve as a communications conduit
Planning for Medical Progress Through Education
CFAS Home
1965 report to the AAMC
https://www.aamc.org/members/cfas/
UTMB CFAS Representatives
Barbara L. Thompson, MD
Professor and Chair
Sealy Hutchings and Lucille Wright Hutchings Chair
Department of Family Medicine
bathomps@utmb.edu
Susan D. McCammon, MD
Associate Professor
Jehu Matthew Robison Distinguished Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
sdmccamm@utmb.edu
CFAS Meetings and Charge
AAMC Annual Meeting
CFAS CHARGE
November 6-10, 2015, Baltimore, MD
REPRESENTATION
2016 CFAS Spring Meeting
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Actively solicit and represent concerns of faculty
from medical school to CFAS
March 3-5, 2016, Salt Lake City, Utah
COMMUNICATION
UTMB Pre-meeting activities
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•Introduce faculty to CFAS
•faculty senate, chairs, individual department meetings
•Web-based survey of all faculty to identify concerns
•Faculty focus groups for further discussion
UTMB Post-meeting activities
Bi-directional
Provide regular reports of CFAS activities,
especially after formal CFAS meetings to
governance of sponsoring medical school
ADVOCACY
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Actively communicate vital AAMC and CFAS
policy statements and initiatives to academic,
community, and legislative leadership
bathomps@utmb.edu
•Web-based update on council discussion and actions
•Faculty Senate
sdmccamm@utmb.edu