Alliance Research Surveys
Alliance Research Surveys produce results used to help professionals in IM undergraduate and graduate medical education better understand and advance their profession by: informing organizational policies and initiatives; publishing the results in scholarly journals; and by presenting results at professional conferences.
With oversight from volunteer committees, the Alliance conducts annual, semiannual, and biannual research surveys of its membership. Survey audiences include, for example, internal medicine (IM) residency program directors, residency and fellowship program administrators, core clerkship, sub-internship, and site directors, and clerkship administrators at medical schools and teaching hospital sites. Additionally, Alliance volunteer groups such as committees, task forces, and other bodies conduct periodic research surveys with technical support from Alliance Surveys staff as needed.
Alliance surveys staff manage data collection and will never disclose your or your institution’s identity in any results reporting. All research surveys are submitted to an institutional review board (IRB) for compliance with human subjects research protections, and AAIM surveys staff hold valid human subjects research training certificates.
For more information, including select summary results and presentations, about specific surveys, please visit the survey pages below.
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CDIM Clerkship Director Surveys
The Alliance launches an annual survey each September of core clinical clerkship director (CD) members, addressing timely or critical issues affecting the third- and fourth-year medicine training experiences. The CDIM Survey and Scholarship Committee oversees survey development. When timely issues arise, the Alliance also fields occasional spring surveys of CDs and other UME audiences.
CDIM survey data are used to help members better understand and advance their profession by informing organizational policies and initiatives, and by publishing analyses of the results in medical education journals or presenting those results at professional conferences such as Academic Internal Medicine Week, as well as via webinars for members. Summary results reports and presentations also are available for members online (presentation and summary results files are available below).
Goals and History of CDIM Surveys
The CDIM Annual Survey has three main goals:
- Assess the needs of the CDIM membership and provide course and clerkship directors with answers to questions of educational relevance.
- Describe practices, standards, and issues affecting teaching, learning, scholarship, and research in undergraduate medical education.
- Assess perceptions of educational leaders about practices, methods, and procedures in internal medicine undergraduate education.
CDIM surveys aim to assess the needs of CDIM membership and provide course and clerkship directors with answers to questions of educational relevance, describe practices, standards, and issues affecting teaching, learning, scholarship, and research in undergraduate medical education, and assess perceptions of educational leaders about those processes.
Important Updates:
Hernandez, Caridad A. MD; Daroowalla, Feroza MD, MPH; LaRochelle, Jeffrey S. MD, MPH; Ismail, Nadia MD, MPH, MEd; Tartaglia, Kimberly M. MD; Fagan, Mark J. MD; Kisielewski, Michael MA; Walsh, Katherine MD. Determining Grades in the Internal Medicine Clerkship: Results of a National Survey of Clerkship Directors. Academic Medicine 96(2):p 249-255, February 2021. | DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003815
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