AAMC Council of Academic Societies

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AAMC Council of Academic Societies (CAS)
Report 2007 AMSPC Meeting
J.R. Haywood Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology Michigan State University Thomas C.
Westfall Department of Pharmacological and
Physiological Science Saint Louis University
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AAMC Councils and Groups
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Council of Academic Societies Mission Statement
The CAS is composed of faculty who represent
medical school departments and their chairs,
academic societies, and individual faculty
members. Our mission is to help the faculty of
medical schools and teaching hospitals to pursue
their primary responsibilities of research,
education, and patient care. Our goal is to help
medical faculty, their institutions, and their
societies, improve the health of all Americans.
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Council of Academic SocietiesGoals

• To accomplish its mission, the Council of
  Academic Societies is committed to the following
  goals.
• To analyze, prioritize and articulate information
  and issues relevant to the core values of
  faculties and constituent societies.
• To support faculty and constituent societies in
  the exercise of essential core values.
• To articulate the role of the medical school
  faculty to academic medicine and to the public.
• To foster networking among scholars.
• To ensure that the CAS represents the broad
  interests of academic faculty and that
  constituent societies play an actual role in the
  CAS.

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Societies Listed by Discipline Basic Sciences
ANATOMY AND CELL BIOLOGY American Association
of Anatomists Association of Anatomy, Cell
Biology and Neurobiology Chairpersons
BIOCHEMISTRY American Society for Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology Association of Medical and
Graduate Departments of Biochemistry BONE AND
MINERAL METABOLISM American Society for Bone and
Mineral Research ENDOCRINOLOGY Endocrine
Society
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Societies Listed by Discipline (cont) Basic
Sciences MICROBIOLOGY American Society for
Microbiology Association of Medical School
Microbiology and Immunology Chairs
MULTISPECIALTY International Association of
Medical Science Educators NEUROSCIENCE Society
for Neuroscience Association of Medical School
Neuroscience Department Chairs
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Societies Listed by Discipline (cont) Basic
Sciences PHARMACOLOGY Association for Medical
School Pharmacology PHYSIOLOGY American
Physiological Society Association of Chairs of
Departments of Physiology PATHOLOGY Academy
of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists
American Society for Investigative Pathology
Association of Pathology Chairs U.S. and
Canadian Academy of Pathology
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Representation Each CAS member Society may
designate two representatives to the CAS AMSPC
Representatives ? Thomas C. Westfall,
Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of
Pharmacological and Physiological Science Saint
Louis University School of Medicine ?
Joseph Haywood, Ph.D. Professor and
Chair Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology Michigan State University Two
meetings per year ? Fall (with entire
AAMC) ? Spring
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Governance - 12 members are appointed to the
CAS Administrative Board Meet three
times/year Formulate the programs of the full
council Act on behalf of CAS on Association
business and policy initiatives - Chair and
five other CAS Administrative Board members are
members of the AAMS Executive Council (Board of
Directors of the AAMC)
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CAS Website
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RECENT CAS PANELS AND ACTIVITIES

• Basic Science Chairs Leadership Forum
• Scholarship Dissemination Project
• Task Force on Dual Degree Students, Programs and
  Faculty
• Task Force on Faculty Leadership
• Nominating Committee
• CAS Membership Committee
• Program Committee
• Responsible Conduct of Research
• CAS Communication Activities

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BASIC SCIENCE CHAIR LEADERSHIP FORUM

• Designed to give a voice to the basic science
  chair societies
• Organized the first meeting of basic science
  chairs in Philadelphia in October, 2002
• Organized the second meeting in Salt Lake City in
  October, 2005
• All presentations made at the meeting, along with
  summaries of the breakout sessions, have been
  posted on the CAS Private Web Page
• contact cas_at_aamc.org for connection details

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Basic Science Chairs Meeting Salt Lake City

• The presentation topics included
• Building a Vision for Basic Science in the
  Medical School of Tomorrow
• The Changing Organization of Biomedical Research
• Creating an Environment that Promotes Faculty
  Productivity
• Graduate and Medical Education and the Role of
  Basic Science Chairs Institutional Expectations
  of Chairs
• Legal Issues for Chairs
• NlH Funding, Extramural Research and Peer Review
• Managing the Hard Landing Case Studies

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CAS Annual Meeting
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CAS Meeting 2006

• The presentation topics included
• Physician Workforce
• Class expansion
• International graduates
• Community-based medical schools
• Research-based medical schools
• Rural program
• NIH Issues electronic grant submission
• Congressional Issues

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CAS Meetings
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AAMC Annual Meeting
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AAMC Annual Meeting 2006Pursuing Excellence,
Creating Value

• The presentation topics included
• Medical education
• LCME
• Medical student curriculum
• MD/PhD programmatic issues
• Physician workforce issues
• Ethics
• Clinical care
• Life-Work issues
• Faculty issues
• Hot topics
• Womens Health
• Diversity
• Politics of Obesity

• CAS Sessions Topics
• Clinical Translational Science
  Awards
• Translation of Science into Practice

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CAS Website
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CAS Website
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CAS Website
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Other AAMC Resources
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Other AAMC Resources
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Other AAMC Resources
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Other AAMC Resources
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Other AAMC Resources
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Scholarship Dissemination Project
The goal of this recently completed project was,
to provide faculty, staff and students in AAMC
member schools, as well as members of CAS
Societies, with a clearer picture of the
significant changes that are taking place in the
medical and biological sciences as scholarly
communication moves from predominantly print to
online journals. Summary of full report has
been posted on the CAS Private Web Page
contact cas_at_aamc.org for connection details
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Task Force on Dual Degree Programs, Students and
Faculty

• Charged with exploring the impact of dual degree
  programs on the medical school enterprise
• Review existing data and explore existing and
  ongoing studies on related topics consider the
  issues presented by dual degree programs,
  students and faculty and make recommendations as
  to how the CAS and AAMC should proceed
• Report posted on CAS Private Web Page
• contact cas_at_aamc.org for connection details

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Task Force on Faculty Leadership
Developed the Chairs Objectives Project report
which outlines the knowledge, values, skills and
attributes of the ideal department chair
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Basic Science Chairs Meeting Salt Lake City

• Breakout sessions included
• Balancing Department Missions
• Department Strategic
• Translational Research
• Data Issues Related to Faculty Contributions to
  the Education Mission and Research Missions
• Tenure and Post-Tenure Review
• Faculty Salary Issues
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Chair and Department Reviews
• Creating and Shaping Faculty Expectations