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Alliance Committees & Task Forces 

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The AAIM Innovation Grants Committee is charged with overseeing the AAIM Innovation Grants Program. The committee is responsible for providing guidance on the annual grant’s timeline and process, determining future grant program themes, reviewing submitted letters of interest and grant applications, and selecting grant recipients.

Chair:  Amy Zelenski, PhD
Vice Chair:  Thurayya Arayssi, MD

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Committee Update (as of June 2023)

• Committee members are serving as reviewers for the Building Trust through Diversity, Health Care Equity, Inclusion and Diagnostic Excellence in Internal Medicine Training grants program, and the program committee chair serves on the Steering Committee.

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The AAIM Medical Education Research Committee is charged with developing or facilitating resources/tools that would support the AAIM membership in conducting medical education research as directly related to the strategic plan. Some examples include:

• Tutorials on how to conduct medical education research.
• Serve as consultants/resource for workgroups/taskforces/councils as they are implementing Alliance projects to ensure appropriate process and outcome metrics are being considered during early work.
• Identifying data/metrics that need to be captured to assess the impact of any implemented Alliance projects as related to the strategic plan, including those related to the UME/GME interface work. 

Chair: Chayan Chakraborti, MD

Vice Chair: Margaret Baker, MD

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Committee Update (as of June 2023)

• With the revised committee charge to focus on developing resources/tools to support the AAIM membership in conducting medical education research, the committee staffed a booth at Academic Internal Medicine Week 2023.
• Committee members met early career faculty who presented challenges in their research endeavors, triaged their efforts, and reached out to these young researchers.
• The committee provided comprehensive guidance to a program director who had inquiries about his quality improvement project.
• The committee revised its consultation form based on the experience at AIMW.

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The AAIM Prioritization and Sequencing Task Force is charged with reviewing the FY21/FY22 task force recommendations and council priorities.

1. Determine what initiatives should be undertaken by the Alliance, being mindful that other organizations are addressing the transition’s systemic issues within their areas of interest and expertise.
2. From that list of agreed-upon future endeavors, determine what initiatives are critical, important, less important, and repository (i.e., low priority items). 
3. Based on these four quadrants, expand these items by identifying what components should be undertaken in FY24, FY25, FY26, and FY27. 
4. Report its progress to the AAIM BoD meeting to include articulating any challenges, seeking guidance, and/or bringing forward any questions. 
5. Formally submit its prioritization and sequencing recommendations to the AAIM BoD on March 2023.

Co-Chairs: Steven R. Barczi, MD and Cindy Lai, MD

Task Force Update (as of February 2023)

• On September 30, 2022, the seven UME – GME Transition Task Forces submitted their recommendations to the AAIM Board of Directors for its review. To help operationalize the proposed initiatives, the AAIM Board of Directors established the AAIM Prioritization and Sequencing Task Force.  This group is charged with prioritizing the UME – GME Transition Task Forces’ recommendations and council priorities, developing an implementation timeline spanning five fiscal years, and integrating faculty development and DEI concepts.  Their work will sprout new groups to carry out AAIM’s UME – GME practicing physician transition, faculty development, and equity endeavors.

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The AAIM Research Committee is charged with promoting and sustaining a community of research program directors to develop and share best practices designed to ensure the survival, growth, and diversity of the physician-scientist workforce. The committee will serve as the central body for data collection, analysis, and the dissemination of research-related outcomes of residency and fellowship research programs.

Chair: Christopher Williams, MD, PhD

Vice Chair: Jatin Vyas, MD, PhD

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Committee Update (as of June 2023)

• The 2023 Research Pathways Directors Workshop was held on Sunday, April 23, 2023, in Chicago, in conjunction with the Association of American Physicians (AAP), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and the American Physician-Scientist Association (APSA) joint meetings.
• The workshop garnered 73 attendees. Overall, attendees ranked the workshop highly (very satisfied via Likert Scale). The Quick Shots segment, whereby programs shared innovative programming to support and advance residency and fellowship physician-scientists training will be re-evaluated.
• Committee members are working on a manuscript that guides faculty and medical students in the transition from medical school to internal medicine physician-scientist training programs. A second manuscript is in development to study the evolving landscape of physician-scientist training.
• The committee is conducting discussions with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) to develop and disseminate a survey to Research Pathway graduates, registered learners, and those that completed their IM Board Examination to understand the experiences of trainees in the physician-scientist pathway.
• The May 16, 2023, APM Town Hall centered on discussing and sharing strategies to support physician-scientist careers. The Research Committee co-chairs felt tremendous support from the APM community. Future partnerships are on the horizon.