AAMC

We are excited to celebrate Academic Medicine Week June 8-12 to recognize the unparalleled contributions of academic medicine to improving the health of patients and communities across the country. As the AAMC celebrates its 150th anniversary, this year’s observance offers a special opportunity to highlight the people, institutions, and innovations that continue to advance patient care, train future physicians, conduct groundbreaking research, and strengthen communities nationwide. Thank you Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) for introducing a resolution in the House of Representatives recognizing the observance.

Learn more: https://www.aamc.org/news/press-releases/aamc-celebrates-academic-medicine-week-june-8-12

AAMC Celebrates Academic Medicine Week June 8-12 The AAMC and its medical schools, academic health systems, and teaching hospitals will celebrate Academic Medicine Week June 8-12.

What does it mean to go through medical school with someone who truly understands the experience? Six sets of twins reflect on learning, growing, and supporting each other and what it’s like to take the next step into residency.

Multiples in medical school Six sets of twins graduating in 2026 share their experiences going through medical school together.

We’re proud to spotlight the contributions of our chief scientific officer, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, to a National Academy of Medicine workshop, “Sustaining the Biomedical Workforce: Innovative Pathways for Retaining and Supporting Physician-Scientists.”

She grounded the conversation in data: while 90% of medical students participate in faculty-mentored research, just 3% plan to focus their careers on research exclusively. That gap demonstrates the barriers physician-scientists face – but there are solutions: stable funding and training, broader definitions like “research-engaged physicians,” and robust institutional supports like mentorship, networks, and team-science structures.

Thank you to Fuentes-Afflick for her forward-thinking leadership on future of the biomedical workforce. Read the full proceedings here.

Sustaining the Biomedical Workforce: Innovative Pathways for Retaining and Supporting Physician-Scientists - NAM Physician-scientists are unique within the biomedical workforce as a bridge between research and patient care.

Today, the AAMC-led Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition hosted a Congressional briefing highlighting the importance of the Health Resources and Services Administration Title VII health professions and Title VIII nursing workforce development programs in improving patients’ access to care.

Speakers shared how these programs help train, recruit, and retain health providers, especially in rural and medically underserved communities. Thank you to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK) and all of our expert panelists for emphasizing the need for Congress to continue investing in these programs to help ensure our health workforce is equipped to serve the nation's ever-growing needs.

June 8-12th is Academic Medicine Week! We want to hear from you. Share how your institution is advancing patient care, training future physicians, conducting groundbreaking research or strengthening communities using .

“150 years have brought us further than we imagined. They’ve also shown us how far we still need to go.”

Today, as we celebrate our 150th anniversary, AAMC president David J. Skorton, MD, reflects on the remarkable progress academic medicine has made — and shares an honest reckoning with the gaps that remain, from rural health care access to maternal mortality disparities. An insightful read for anyone committed to the future of medicine.

The AAMC at 150: How Far We've Come, and the Road Ahead I recently had the joy of celebrating commencement at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences. I was reminded that life offers us periodic “way stations” like commencements at which to pause and consider our goals, aspirations, setbacks, and progress.

Congress made history when it passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA, 2021) and increased Medicare support for graduate medical education (GME) for the first time in nearly 25 years. How did AAMC-member teaching health systems and hospitals capitalize on the new Medicare-supported GME residency positions to improve access to care?

In July 2023, UCHealth opened a brand new 40-bed inpatient facility, which included a much-needed behavioral health unit that provided services that were not being provided by other Colorado medical institutions.

Health care leaders at ChristianaCare developed a psychiatry program, decreasing the wait time to see a psychiatrist from 3 months to 1 week.

Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester is expanding its Surgery Residency program, allowing residents to spend more time during their training program in rotations at its rural hospitals.

Read more stories from AAMC member institutions:

How expanding graduate medical education impacts patients and communities

What if a simple blood test could detect pancreatic cancer before you ever had a symptom?

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) may be closer than you think. Their liquid biopsy correctly identified 73% of pancreatic cancer patients — a disease that kills more than it should, largely because it’s often caught too late.

Liquid biopsies are one of the most exciting frontiers in cancer detection, but they come with real questions about accuracy, follow-up care, cost, and what a positive result actually means for patients.

This is how academic medicine , pushing the science forward while asking the hard questions.

Liquid biopsies spark hope for early cancer detection More screenings are being developed and used to detect evidence of disease in bodily fluids. But questions remain about reliability and implications for care.