1. AAMCCFAS Introducing the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Faculty and Academic Societies UTMB, May 2015

2. AAMC AAMC Faculty Resources Policy and Advocacy Learning and Leadership Capacity-Building Programs Leading-Edge Data, Analytics and Research Timely, Critical, and Focused Communications and Publications AAMC History and Composition Founded 1876 Not-for-profit association All 141 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers 90 academic and scientific societies. 128,000 faculty members 110,000 resident physicians 75,000 medical students

3. AAMCFaculty Representation Council of Academic Societies Formed 1966 Purpose: “This council should provide for all participation of faculty representatives, selected for their broad interest in education for health and medical sciences. It should be concerned primarily with matters of curriculum, education content, and educational methods.” Planning for Medical Progress Through Education 1965 report to the AAMC Council of Faculty and Academic Societies Formed 2013 Purpose: “To ensure the full range of faculty voices is more clearly heard within the AAMC” Identify critical issues facing faculty of medical schools Provide a voice for those faculty Serve as a communications conduit CFAS Home https://www.aamc.org/members/cfas/

4. UTMB CFAS Representatives Barbara L. Thompson, MD Professor and Chair Sealy Hutchings and Lucille Wright Hutchings Chair Department of Family Medicine bathomps@utmb.edu Susan D. McCammon, MD Associate Professor Jehu Matthew Robison Distinguished Professor Department of Otolaryngology sdmccamm@utmb.edu

5. CFAS Meetings and Charge AAMC Annual Meeting November 6-10, 2015, Baltimore, MD 2016 CFAS Spring Meeting March 3-5, 2016, Salt Lake City, Utah UTMB Pre-meeting activities Introduce faculty to CFAS faculty senate, chairs, individual department meetings Web-based survey of all faculty to identify concerns Faculty focus groups for further discussion UTMB Post-meeting activities Web-based update on council discussion and actions Faculty Senate CFAS CHARGE REPRESENTATION Actively solicit and represent concerns of faculty from medical school to CFAS COMMUNICATION Bi-directional Provide regular reports of CFAS activities, especially after formal CFAS meetings to governance of sponsoring medical school ADVOCACY Actively communicate vital AAMC and CFAS policy statements and initiatives to academic, community, and legislative leadership bathomps@utmb.edu sdmccamm@utmb.edu