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October 22, 2025 Newsletter
What the AMA Says About AI in Medicine, FREE Course, What's Being Missed on Exams, Changes to ABEM Exams, ABOG Exam, CME Savings
Congress addresses the healthcare worker shortage, ABEM Qualifying Exam, decline in university tenured positions, AI forces new approaches to education
- Congress Addresses the Healthcare Workforce Shortage
- ABEM Qualifying Exam - Be Ready!
- Decline in Tenured Positions
- Evolving Capabilities in AI Require New Approaches in Education
Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act
Bearing in mind that PRS Global, whose President wrote the article, is an international nurse placement group, the focus of the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act (HWRA) is about visas. 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 - RealClearHealth.com
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Decline in Tenured Faculty at Medical SchoolsDrops from 39% in 1987 to 24% in 2021. Fulltime faculty on a non-tenure track doubled from 17% to 32%. 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 - AAMC AAMC Journal Article - Promotion and Tenure Policies and Practices at U.S. Medical Schools
Teaching and Learning, Cheating, and Assessment in the Age of AIThe 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. Teaching and Learning, Cheating, and Assessment in the Age of AI |