Academic Medicine Open Forum

A big thank you to the nearly 90 folks for spending time with us on the #learnservelead2025 highlights call today. We're grateful for your interest, your energy, and your ongoing commitment to learning, sharing, and strengthening our community.

A special thank-you to our Community Champions, @Nancy Hayes, our Champions Council Chair, and @Amanda Albright and @Katharine Niles, council members, whose thoughtful facilitation brought today's conversations to life. Your leadership, curiosity, and generosity in guiding these discussions make all the difference.

As promised, the Toolkit and meeting materials are now available here in the Open Forum Library. We invite you to revisit the insights, share them with your teams, and use them as a resource throughout the year. While this call barely scratched the surface of the 175 sessions of this year's conference - that's where the virtual communities come in. Please keep those themes, sessions, questions and thoughts permeate throughout the communities and discussion posts here. Have a thought? A question? Add it here! 

Keep the Conversation Going

Today's dialogue is just the beginning. We encourage you to:

• Continue the discussion in your communities. Find that accountability partner - reach out to one person and grow YOUR community and connections!
• Check back often for new opportunities to connect, reflect, and learn together.
• Have an idea for a future virtual community webinar session? Submit it-we'd love to feature your passion and expertise.
• Invite your peers into this space and help extend the reach of these conversations.
• Consider becoming a Community Champion and modeling this spirit of engagement.

Looking Toward the Season Ahead

As we approach the end of the year and the holiday season, we want to acknowledge how much you do-professionally, personally, and within your communities. Thank you for choosing to spend part of your time with us today. Your participation enriches the entire network.

And as Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy reminded us at Learn Serve Lead:
Support one another. Engage deeply with your communities. Advocate for policies and practices shaped by kindness and generosity.
There is so much we can do, together.  Also, we have added his Parting Prescription for America, which he shared on his last day in office. It is even more timely today. As someone who deeply believes in the power of community, both virtual and reality, I encourage you all to give it a read (and promise that there is no pop quiz!)

We hope to see you next year in Anaheim, presenting on one of the many topics we discussed today, perhaps? -but please don't wait until November to reconnect. We'll see you around the community well before then.

With gratitude and appreciation,

Your AAMC Virtual Communities Team

Penny and Michele

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Penny Schnarrs
(she/her)
Director of Community Relations and Strategy
Association of American Medical Colleges
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A big thank you to the nearly 90 folks for spending time with us on the #learnservelead2025 highlights call today. We're grateful for your interest, your energy, and your ongoing commitment to learning, sharing, and strengthening our community.

A special thank-you to our Community Champions, @Nancy Hayes, our Champions Council Chair, and @Amanda Albright and @Katharine Niles, council members, whose thoughtful facilitation brought today's conversations to life. Your leadership, curiosity, and generosity in guiding these discussions make all the difference.

As promised, the Toolkit and meeting materials are now available here in the Open Forum Library. We invite you to revisit the insights, share them with your teams, and use them as a resource throughout the year. While this call barely scratched the surface of the 175 sessions of this year's conference - that's where the virtual communities come in. Please keep those themes, sessions, questions and thoughts permeate throughout the communities and discussion posts here. Have a thought? A question? Add it here! 

Keep the Conversation Going

Today's dialogue is just the beginning. We encourage you to:

• Continue the discussion in your communities. Find that accountability partner - reach out to one person and grow YOUR community and connections!
• Check back often for new opportunities to connect, reflect, and learn together.
• Have an idea for a future virtual community webinar session? Submit it-we'd love to feature your passion and expertise.
• Invite your peers into this space and help extend the reach of these conversations.
• Consider becoming a Community Champion and modeling this spirit of engagement.

Looking Toward the Season Ahead

As we approach the end of the year and the holiday season, we want to acknowledge how much you do-professionally, personally, and within your communities. Thank you for choosing to spend part of your time with us today. Your participation enriches the entire network.

And as Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy reminded us at Learn Serve Lead:
Support one another. Engage deeply with your communities. Advocate for policies and practices shaped by kindness and generosity.
There is so much we can do, together.  Also, we have added his Parting Prescription for America, which he shared on his last day in office. It is even more timely today. As someone who deeply believes in the power of community, both virtual and reality, I encourage you all to give it a read (and promise that there is no pop quiz!)

We hope to see you next year in Anaheim, presenting on one of the many topics we discussed today, perhaps? -but please don't wait until November to reconnect. We'll see you around the community well before then.

With gratitude and appreciation,

Your AAMC Virtual Communities Team

Penny and Michele

Thank you @Penny Schnarrs for all the work you and Michele did to collate these resources -- and for finding Dr. Murthy's inspirational "parting Rx for America. As always, you are the catalyst for the success of the Communities.

A big thank you to the nearly 90 folks for spending time with us on the #learnservelead2025 highlights call today. We're grateful for your interest, your energy, and your ongoing commitment to learning, sharing, and strengthening our community.

A special thank-you to our Community Champions, @Nancy Hayes, our Champions Council Chair, and @Amanda Albright and @Katharine Niles, council members, whose thoughtful facilitation brought today's conversations to life. Your leadership, curiosity, and generosity in guiding these discussions make all the difference.

As promised, the Toolkit and meeting materials are now available here in the Open Forum Library. We invite you to revisit the insights, share them with your teams, and use them as a resource throughout the year. While this call barely scratched the surface of the 175 sessions of this year's conference - that's where the virtual communities come in. Please keep those themes, sessions, questions and thoughts permeate throughout the communities and discussion posts here. Have a thought? A question? Add it here! 

Keep the Conversation Going

Today's dialogue is just the beginning. We encourage you to:

• Continue the discussion in your communities. Find that accountability partner - reach out to one person and grow YOUR community and connections!
• Check back often for new opportunities to connect, reflect, and learn together.
• Have an idea for a future virtual community webinar session? Submit it-we'd love to feature your passion and expertise.
• Invite your peers into this space and help extend the reach of these conversations.
• Consider becoming a Community Champion and modeling this spirit of engagement.

Looking Toward the Season Ahead

As we approach the end of the year and the holiday season, we want to acknowledge how much you do-professionally, personally, and within your communities. Thank you for choosing to spend part of your time with us today. Your participation enriches the entire network.

And as Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy reminded us at Learn Serve Lead:
Support one another. Engage deeply with your communities. Advocate for policies and practices shaped by kindness and generosity.
There is so much we can do, together.  Also, we have added his Parting Prescription for America, which he shared on his last day in office. It is even more timely today. As someone who deeply believes in the power of community, both virtual and reality, I encourage you all to give it a read (and promise that there is no pop quiz!)

We hope to see you next year in Anaheim, presenting on one of the many topics we discussed today, perhaps? -but please don't wait until November to reconnect. We'll see you around the community well before then.

With gratitude and appreciation,

Your AAMC Virtual Communities Team

Penny and Michele