Alliance News

Mar 15, 2023 | 1 min read

March 2023— The Alliance, as one of almost 400 members of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, signed onto the final Ad Hoc Group Recommendations letter sent to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders in March 2023.

Jan 31, 2023 | 1 min read

February 2023 — The Alliance provided feedback to ACGME about the proposed revisions to the internal medicine subspecialty program requirements.

Nov 30, 2022 | 1 min read

December 2022— The Alliance, as one of almost 300 members of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, signed onto a November 8 letter sent to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders urging the passage of the final FY 2023 funding bills.

Sep 1, 2022 | 1 min read

September 2022—Through the work of a cross-council writing group, the Alliance developed a letter summarizing many of the concerns about the new program requirements for core faculty support of internal medicine residency and fellowship programs.

Jul 15, 2022 | 1 min read

July 2022—The Graduate Medical Education Advocacy Coalition--of which AAIM is a member--sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to urge them to build upon historic investment in the health care workforce.

Jul 1, 2022 | 1 min read

July 2022—Initially developed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Medical Association in response to the June 24 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

May 1, 2022 | 1 min read

May 2022—The Alliance is saddened and horrified by the most recent spate of mass shootings in the United States.

Apr 1, 2022 | 1 min read

April 2022— Because the support of a DIO is critical to a successful education mission, the Alliance has again asked ACGME to strongly consider developing and implementing an assessment tool to objectively assess the performance of the DIO.

Nov 1, 2020 | 1 min read

November 2020—AAIM was invited to testify during the November 16 ACGME Congress on Program Support, which was convened by an ACGME Board of Directors Task Force to examine common and specialty-specific program requirements.

Oct 1, 2020 | 1 min read

October 2020— The Alliance commented October 23 on a proposed visa rule change from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security, that aims to change the process for certain nonimmigrant visa holders.

Aug 1, 2020 | 1 min read

August 2020—In the interest of identifying and developing an optimal approach to assess clinical skills for licensure, on July 10 NBME invited Alliance constituent organizations to share perspectives on the prior USMLE Step 2 CS exam.

Jun 4, 2020 | 2 min read

AAIM Supports African-American Internists, Staff, Learners, and CommunityAAIM expresses its horror and sadness in agreement with the rest of the world at the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.

Jun 1, 2020 | 1 min read

June 2020—AAIM expresses its horror and sadness in agreement with the rest of the world at the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.

Feb 10, 2020 | 1 min read

ABIM has released a letter clarifying how residents and fellows can demonstrat competence in the performance of invasive procedures.

Jan 31, 2020 | 1 min read

February 2020—USMLE announced today that score reporting for Step 1 will move from a three-digit numeric score to reporting only a pass/fail outcome.

Oct 15, 2019 | 1 min read

October 2019—The Alliance joined 305 organizations, institutions, and businesses  in signing a letter urging appropriators to work quickly to agree to provide a robust increase in funding for NIH in FY 2020.

Oct 1, 2019 | 1 min read

October 2019—At the request of the RC-IM, AAIM submitted language recommending required program administrator FTE equivalents in residency programs.

Sep 1, 2019 | 1 min read

September 2019—In June 2019, the ACGME Review Committee for Internal Medicine invited stakeholders to comment on three proposed paradigm shifts that were developed as part of the ACGME IM2035 scenario planning exercise.

Jul 15, 2019 | 1 min read

July 2019—The Alliance has submitted its unified response to the recommendations from the Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring.

Jul 1, 2019 | 1 min read

July 2019—Through the auspices of the AAMC GME Coalition, AAIM signed on to a letter urging Congress to pass either the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 or the Dream Act of 2019.