--- title: May 2, 2024 Customer Newsletter description: Congress addresses the healthcare worker shortage, ABEM Qualifying Exam, decline in university tenured positions, AI forces new approaches to education image: https://challengercme.com/hubfs/Newsletter%20-%20Customer%20Newsletter%20Graphics/016.jpg --- [![Med-Challenger-green-logo-1024x244](https://challengercme.com/hubfs/Med-Challenger-green-logo-1024x244.webp) ](https://challengercme.com/) - [SHOP EXAM PREP & CME ](https://challengercme.com/blog/may-02-2024-customer-newsletter#) ### [EMERGENCY MEDICINE](https://challengercme.com/emergency-medicine-exam-review-cme-course) [ABEM exam prep](https://challengercme.com/emergency-medicine-exam-review-cme-course), [MyEMCert](https://challengercme.com/emergency-medicine-myemcert-exam-review-course), etc. ### [FAMILY MEDICINE](https://challengercme.com/family-medicine-exam-review-cme-course) [ABFM exam prep](https://challengercme.com/family-medicine-exam-review-cme-course), [ABFM KSA](https://challengercme.com/family-medicine-moc-ksa-course), etc. ### [INTERNAL MEDICINE ABIM exam prep, MOC points, etc.](https://challengercme.com/internal-medicine-exam-review-cme-course) ### [OBGYN ABOG exam prep, CREOG, etc.](https://challengercme.com/obgyn-exam-review-cme-course) ### [PEDIATRICS ABP exam prep, MOCA-PEDS, etc.](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-medicine-exam-review-cme-course) ### [PEDIATRIC EM](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-emergency-medicine-3rd-edition) [ABP/ABEM exam prep Ed.3](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-emergency-medicine-3rd-edition), [Ed.2](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-emergency-medicine-pack2), etc. ### [SPECIAL PURPOSE / SPEX FSMB exam prep, etc.](https://challengercme.com/special-purpose-exam-review-spex-exam-preparation-course) ### [PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT](https://challengercme.com/physician-assistant-exam-review-cme-course) [PANCE / PANRE](https://challengercme.com/physician-assistant-exam-review-cme-course), [CAQ-EM](https://challengercme.com/pa-caq-em-review-course), etc ### [NURSE PRACTITIONER](https://challengercme.com/family-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cme-course) [FNP](https://challengercme.com/family-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cme-course), [ENP](https://challengercme.com/emergency-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cne-course), [AGNP](https://challengercme.com/adult-gerontology-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cne-course), [PNCB/CPNP](https://challengercme.com/pediatric-nurse-practitioner-exam-review-cne-course), etc. ### [NURSING / NCLEX NCLEX, CNE, etc.](https://challengercme.com/nursing-certification-nclex-exam-review-cne-courses) ### [STATE-REQUIRED CME / CE State CME requirements, etc.](https://challengercme.com/state-required-cme) ### [JOINT COMMISSION CME](https://challengercme.com/stroke-center-ce-review-course) [Stroke](https://challengercme.com/stroke-center-ce-review-course), [Cardiac](https://challengercme.com/cardiac-center-ce-review-course), [Trauma](https://challengercme.com/trauma-center-ce-review-course), [ALS](https://challengercme.com/advanced-life-support-and-resuscitation-center-ce-review-course), etc. ### [PROFESSIONALISM CME Professionalism review with CME](https://challengercme.com/professionalism-review-course) ### [DERMATOLOGY CME Dermatology review with CME](https://challengercme.com/dermatology-review-course) ### [USMLE STEP 2CK / STEP 3 USMLE exam prep, etc.](https://challengercme.com/usmle-certification-exam-review-clerkship-exams-shelf-exam-review) - [INSTITUTIONS ](https://challengercme.com/atlas-pro-inst) - [BLOG ](https://challengercme.com/blog) - [SUPPORT ](https://support.challengercme.com/knowledge) [SIGN IN ](https://fuse.challengercme.com/sign-in?redirectURL=%2Fuserdash) # May 2, 2024 Customer Newsletter Congress addresses the healthcare worker shortage, ABEM Qualifying Exam, decline in university tenured positions, AI forces new approaches to education [ Challenger Corporation ](https://challengercme.com/blog/author/challenger-corporation) May 2, 2024 ### < [All Posts](https://challengercme.com/blog) Try Med-Challenger Start a free trial today and save! 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The HWRA would activate previously authorized work visas for nurses and doctors (25k and 15k respectively), along with family members. It doesn’t change certification or licensing requirements. Seems to have bipartisan support, and will likely pass. [Congress Must Address America’s Unprecedented Healthcare Workforce Shortage](https://www.realclearhealth.com/blog/2024/04/23/congress_must_address_americas_unprecedented_healthcare_workforce_shortage_1026916.html?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8YQSFlm2f3vVhN5oM7fNa1D4BopqPhMNkqcF7zPDFvzsQ8-Y-FmTEazwTeXINTSObnNL2H) - RealClearHealth.com | ![tulip2](https://challengercme.com/hs-fs/hubfs/tulip2.jpg?width=792&height=64&name=tulip2.jpg) ## ABEM Qualifying Exam Registration for the ABEM Qualifying Exam in October & November starts next week. Get registered and start studying for as little as $35! 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They very politely put it as *“Health systems with a greater emphasis on clinical care may not see the value of investing in tenured academic appointments, and newer medical schools, especially those not associated with a university, are less likely to adopt the tenure structure of academia…”* Or in other words, lots more faculty with clinical practice responsibilities, fewer faculty with research and teaching responsibilities. [Tenure is Declining in U.S. Medical Schools](https://www.aamc.org/news/tenure-declining-us-medical-schools-could-threaten-academic-freedom?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8YQSFlm2f3vVhN5oM7fNa1D4BopqPhMNkqcF7zPDFvzsQ8-Y-FmTEazwTeXINTSObnNL2H) - AAMC [AAMC Journal Article - Promotion and Tenure Policies and Practices at U.S. Medical Schools](https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/abstract/9900/promotion_and_tenure_policies_and_practices_at.795.aspx?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8YQSFlm2f3vVhN5oM7fNa1D4BopqPhMNkqcF7zPDFvzsQ8-Y-FmTEazwTeXINTSObnNL2H) ![tulip4-1](https://challengercme.com/hs-fs/hubfs/tulip4-1.jpg?width=789&height=61&name=tulip4-1.jpg) ## Teaching and Learning, Cheating, and Assessment in the Age of AI The suggestions so far from the big associations sound like the politicians approach to most thorny medical care issues - *“it’s up to the physician, but heaven help you if we decide you got it wrong”*. 🙂 The AI tools we have now can’t motivate, can’t mentor or inspire. They are brilliant tools in professional adult education, and in the undergraduate classrooms as well, but they are not people. They can assess knowledge levels extremely well, and they can tutor in most subjects well, but they’re also prone to abuse. Most of the answers to that abuse call for more hands-on teacher involvement in student assessment - which means more labor and smaller classrooms. 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