First IT-savvy med students graduate under pioneering AMA program

The first graduating classes from some of the 32 medical schools to participate in the American Medical Association’s pioneering curriculum modernization initiative are now ready to take their tech savvy to hospitals and practices nationwide.

Medical students from NYU, Indiana University, East Carolina University, Oregon Health and Science University and Penn State graduate this month as part of AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium.

ACME was launched back in 2013 with the goal of helping “close gaps in readiness for practice,” said Susan Skochelak, MD, group vice president of medical education at...