AAMC - Association of American Medical Colleges
11/06/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/06/2024 16:11
AAMC Statement on the U.S. Presidential Election
- Press Release
AAMC Statement on the U.S. Presidential Election
Nov. 6, 2024
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AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, issued the following statement on the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election:
"At a time when challenges around the world are daunting and divisions in our country feel, at times, insurmountable, a historic number of Americans exercised their fundamental right to vote and made their voices heard. Now more than ever we are witnessing the need to come together as a country, bridge our divisions, and overcome the challenges we face.
The AAMC will work with President-elect Donald Trump, the new administration, and the new U.S. Congress, continuing our efforts to improve the health of patients, families, and communities nationwide. This work will be critical to ensuring patient access to high-quality care, building, strengthening, and diversifying the physician workforce, addressing long-standing health inequities, and advancing medical research that leads to prevention, treatment, and cures for Americans across the country.
As a nonpartisan organization, we are proud of the role we play in leading the academic medicine community, and we will continue to work together with policymakers from across the political spectrum to improve the health of people everywhere."
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) is a nonprofit association dedicated to improving the health of people everywhere through medical education, health care, medical research, and community collaborations. Its members are all 159 U.S. medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education; 13 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 500 academic health systems and teaching hospitals, including Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and more than 70 academic societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC leads and serves America's medical schools, academic health systems and teaching hospitals, and the millions of individuals across academic medicine, including more than 201,000 full-time faculty members, 97,000 medical students, 158,000 resident physicians, and 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences. Following a 2022 merger, the Alliance of Academic Health Centers International broadened participation in the AAMC by 70 international academic health centers throughout five regional offices across the globe. Learn more at aamc.org.
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