The AAMC has named the winners of its Health Professions Education Curricular Innovations Grant Program: Kickstarting Strategies for Addressing Health Misinformation. These institutions were awarded grants to support the initial development of competency-based, interprofessional strategies for preparing learners to address health misinformation and the integration of these strategies into new or existing curricula.
Supported through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the AAMC is working to increase confidence in COVID-19 vaccines and address medical misinformation and mistrust through health professions education.
Congratulations to the project leaders at the following institutions:
- @Samara Ginzburg, MD at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
- Rebecca Toonkel, MD at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
- Alison Vargovich, MD at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
- Jennifer Hayman, MD at Maine Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine-Maine Track
- Vineet Arora, MD at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
More information on the grantees' proposals and the grant program can be found here.
A special shout out to @Samara Ginzburg, who is a member of the virtual communities and who we hope will share more about the project with us here as it moves along.
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Penny Schnarrs
Virtual Communities Program Manager
Association of American Medical Colleges
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