The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

The AAMC Faculty Development and Leadership supports faculty vitality through programs and resources that build capacity for both individual and organizational vitality through a framework of comprehensive professional development that addresses responsibilities of academic service, capability to adapt to challenges, and building communities of learning and practice.

The AAMC organizes Professional Development meetings and conferences with emphasis on faculty affairs, women faculty professional development and minority faculty development.

AAMC Member Communities and Professional Development Groups offer networking opportunities and resource exchange through national listserves.

• The Group on Graduate Research, Education, and Training (GREAT Group) provides professional development to, and fosters the exchange of information and ideas among, the faculty and administrative leaders of biomedical PhD, MD-PhD, and postdoctoral programs.  The Group functions as a national forum to help these programs achieve their goal of educating successful biomedical researchers.
• The Group on Faculty Affairs' (GFA) mission is to build and sustain faculty vitality in medical schools and teaching hospitals.  The GFA supports faculty affairs deans and administrators in the development and implementation of policies and programs that advance the academic missions of teaching, research, and clinical care.
• The Women in Medicine (WIM) Program assists dean's offices, Women Leaders Offices and individual faculty members in addressing gender-related inequities and improving the pathways for women to contribute fully to academic medicine.  The WIM office offers two professional development seminars for women faculty; one targets early career instructors and assistant professors, and the other focuses on mid-career assistant and associate professors.  The WIM office also sponsors sessions during the AAMC annual meeting.
• The Group on Student Affairs Committee on Diversity Affairs (CODA) was established in recognition of the essential role diversity issues play within academic medical centers.  The purpose of the CODA is to serve in an advisory and resource capacity, to all facets of the AAMC, on issues of minority concern at national and regional levels.

Faculty Vitae, a web-based publication of the AAMC's Faculty Development and Leadership, features programs, resources, and data trends for professional development for faculty in medical schools and teaching hospitals.  Features include news and lessons in leaderhip and management.