Organizations

	Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) This site focuses on needs of program directors, program coordinators, and housestaff. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 515 North State Street Suite 2000 Chicago, IL 60610-4322 Phone: (312) 755-5000 Fax: (312) 755-7498
	American Association of Anatomists (AAA) The AAA is the professional home for biomedical researchers and educators focusing on anatomical form and function. The resources and links section of their Web site provides links to a variety of biomedical organizations, a list of awards, commercial software and research equipment, an extensive set of education links, a list of summer and online courses, government links, image collections, journals, government links, willed body links and other information. American Association of Anatomists 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 Phone: (301) 634-7910 Fax: (301) 634-7965 E-mail: exec@anatomy.org
	American Association of Clinical Anatomists This organization encourages research and publication in the field and maintaining high standards in the teaching of anatomy. Their site provides a lot of useful information for their members. Instructions for subscribing to their listserv are provided as well as links to other relevant organizations. American Association of Clinical Anatomists Lawrence M. Ross, M.D., Ph.D., Secretary Phone: (713) 500-6153 Fax: (713) 500-0621 E-mail form
	American Medical Association (AMA) The AMA is the nation's largest physician's group and advocates on issues vital to the nation's health. Their GME E-letter is a free monthly publication features news and updates on graduate medical education. American Medical Association 515 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: (800) 621-8335
	American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) This nonprofit organization is dedicated to developing and using information technologies to improve health care. Members include physicians, nurses, computer and information scientists, biomedical engineers, medical librarians, and academic researchers and educators. They hold an annual symposium and a smaller spring meeting and publish The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Their current Working Groups focus on a variety of health care informatics areas, including such interests as family practice and primary care, nursing, clinical information systems, genomics, medical imaging, prevention and public health, consumer health, and others. American Medical Informatics Association 4915 St. Elmo Avenue, Suite 401 Bethesda, MD 20814 Phone: (301) 657-1291 Fax: (301) 657-1296 E-mail: Web page form
	Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) AMEE Office Tay Park House, 484 Perth Road Dundee DD2 1LR, Scotland, UK Phone: 44 1382 631953 Fax: 44 1382 631987 E-mail: amee@dundee.ac.uk NOTE: The journal Medical Teacher is AMEE's official journal. You can access three free recent Medical Teacher papers and join in the Discussion Forum: http://www.educationarena.com/educationarena/forum/cmte_feb04.html
	Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) This is a nonprofit organization founded in 1876 to work for reform in medical education. The AAMC comprises the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools, the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools, 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, 90 academic and professional societies representing nearly 100,000 faculty members, and the nation's medical students and residents. The administrative leadership of medical schools and teaching hospitals are all served by a variety of professional affinity/resource groups housed within the AAMC. The AAMC Archives from 1938-1966 are available through the National Library of Medicine. Association of American Medical Colleges 2450 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20037-1126 Phone: (202) 828-0400 Fax: (202) 828-1125
	AAMC's Council of Academic Societies (CAS) The Council of Academic Societies (CAS) is one of three governing councils of the Association of American Medical Colleges, along with the Council of Deans and the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems. CAS is comprised of 96 academic societies devoted to biomedical & behavioral research, medical education, and patient care. The collective membership of the CAS societies include essentially all faculty members and scientists in American medical schools engaged in life sciences research, research training, and medical education. It serves as a powerful forum for discussing and exchanging information of common interest to medical school faculty and for evaluating and recommending policy initiatives to the AAMC. Contact: Tony Mazzaschi AAMC Division of Biomedical Research Phone: (202) 828-0059 E-mail: tmazzaschi@aamc.org.
	American Educational Research Association: Education in the Professions (Division I) AERA is the most prominent international professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application. Its 20,000 members are educators; administrators; directors of research, testing or evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators; graduate students; and behavioral scientists. American Educational Research Association 1230 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 223-9485 Fax: (202) 775-1824
	Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education (ABSAME) ABSAME is an interdisciplinary professional society dedicated to strengthening behavioral science teaching in medical schools, residency programs, and in continuing medical education. Their site is designed to familiarize users with the organization, to provide updates on upcoming events, and to provide access to valuable medical education and behavioral science resources available on the Internet. ABSAME 1460 N. Center Rd Burton, MI 48509 Phone: (810) 715-4365 Fax: (810) 715-4371
	Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) This national organization is dedicated to education in the areas of women's health, obstetrics and gynecology at the medical school level. The site also offers APGO members the APGO Medical Student Educational Objectives, 8th Edition. They are focused on undergraduate medical education and works to strengthen the Ob-Gyn clerkship. Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics 2130 Priest Bridge Drive Suite #7 Crofton, MD 21114 Phone: (410) 451-9560 Fax: (410) 451-9568 E-mail: djohnson@apgo.org
	Association for Health Professional Education (ANZAME) This Australian group aims to promote, support and advance education in the health professions, to facilitate communication between educators in the health professions, and to recognize, facilitate and disseminate high quality educational research in health professions education. They publish a peer-reviewed journal, a news bulletin, and other publications and hold an annual conference.
	Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) ASHE promotes collaboration among members and others engaged in the study of higher education through research, conferences, and publications, including its journal, The Review of Higher Education. ASHE is a scholarly society with about 1,900 members dedicated to higher education as a field of study. It is committed to diversity in its programs and membership, and has enjoyed extraordinary success in involving graduate students in Association activities. ASHE 424 Erickson Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: (517) 432-8805 Fax: (517) 432-8806 E-mail: ashemsu@msu.edu
	Association for Surgical Education This organization, formed in 1980, represents over 190 medical schools and institutions throughout the United States and Canada. Its primary goal is to promote the art and science of education in surgery. They seek to develop innovative teaching aids and programs and effective educational interventions; to design effective faculty development programs for surgical educators; and to promote and support research in the surgical education field. Their Clearinghouse on Education may be of particular interest. It collects and distributes information and materials related to numerous topics in surgical education: curriculum models, teaching interventions, performance evaluation techniques and instruments, faculty development materials and instructional materials such as videotapes and resource books. Association for Surgical Education Department of Surgery SIU School of Medicine PO Box 19655 Springfield, IL 62794-9655 Phone: (217) 545-3835 E-mail: Web form
	Center For The Health Professions An outgrowth of the Pew Health Professions Commission, The Center was created by the University of California, San Francisco in 1992. Their mission is to assist health care professionals, health professions schools, care delivery organizations and public policy makers in responding to challenges of educating and managing a health care workforce capable of improving the health and well being of people and their communities. Center For The Health Professions University of California, San Francisco 1388 Sutter St., Suite 805 San Francisco, CA 94109-5453 Phone: (415): 476-8181 Fax: (415): 476-4113
	Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) The Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) fosters excellence in undergraduate medical education in pediatrics. Functioning under the auspices of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairmen (AMSPDC), COMSEP is the official organization of north American educators with administrative responsibility for undergraduate medical education in pediatrics. It promotes the development, dissemination, and evaluation of curricular materials and educational resources through inter-institutional collaboration. It advocates for research in pediatric medical education. The effectiveness of members as teachers of students and faculty, and as academic leaders, administrators and mentors is developed and enhanced through participation in COMSEP activities. Jean Bartholomew at the American Board of Pediatrics 111 Silver Cedar Court Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Phone: (919) 942-1993 Fax: (919) 929-9255 E-mail: jmb@abpeds.org
IAMSE	International Association of Basic Science Educators (IAMSE) An international forum with the mission to advance medical education through faculty development and to ensure that the teaching and learning of medicine continues to be firmly grounded in science. IAMSE 1 Crested Butte Huntington, WV 25705 Phone: (304) 733 1270 Fax: (304) 733 6203 E-mail: julie@iamse.org
	Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) Not strictly a medical education organization, this group fosters development and supports practitioners and leaders in higher education dedicated to enhancing learning and teaching through publications, conferences, consulting, and networking. The development of students is a fundamental purpose of higher education and requires for its success effective advising, teaching, leadership, and management. Central to POD's philosophy is lifelong, holistic, personal and professional learning, growth, and change for the higher education community. The POD Network P.O. Box 271370 Ft. Collins, CO 80527-1370 Phone: (970) 377-9269 Fax: (970) 377-9282 E-mail: podnetwork@podweb.org
	Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education (SDRME) The Society is an organization of directors of units in medical education whose mission it is to advance the role of research in medical education. They seek solutions to issues and problems related to the success of our various units. SDRME has grown to about 40+ members from various school of medicine throughout the U.S., Canada and abroad. The membership requirements state that the unit must be a part of an accredited U.S./Canadian medical school and must have an identifiable mission of research, along with other criteria. The site includes a national directory of offices of medical education.
	Society of Medical Decision Making The Society's mission is to improve health outcomes through the advancement of proactive systematic approaches to clinical decision making and policy formation in health care by providing a scholarly forum that connects and educates researchers, providers, policy-makers and the public Society for Medical Decision Making 1211 Locust St Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: (215) 545-7697 Fax: (215) 545-8107 E-mail: smdm-office@lists.smdm.org
	Society of Teachers of Family Medicine The Society, founded in 1967, respond to needs of family medicine educators. Their current membership includes more than 5,000 teachers of family medicine. The administrative offices are housed with the American Academy of Family Physicians in Leawood, Kansas, enhancing the close relationship between the two organizations. They offer a variety of publications to members (Family Medicine, The STFM Messenger and the Annals of Family Medicine). STFM holds an annual spring conference and well as other conferences including the Predoctoral Education Conference focusing on medical student education. Their Web site offers a variety of information of interest to family medicine educators. Society of Teachers of Family Medicine 11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway Ste 540 Leawood, KS 66211 Phone: (800) 274-2237 Fax: (913) 906-6096 E-mail: stfmoffice@stfm.org

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This page compiled by Dr. David Barnett, Office of Medical Student Programs, Rush Medical College of Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612.