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Professional development and leadership resources for osteopathic medical educators, administrators and researchers.  

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Residency Interviewing: Common Mistakes & Red Flags to Avoid

On Monday, September 22, the AOGME Residents and Fellows Council (RFC) and AACOM Council on Residency Placement (CORP) present a webinar on Common Mistakes & Red Flags to Avoid

This educational session featuring Big Interview Medical is designed to help students prepare for residency interviews with confidence. This interactive webinar will offer expert tips, strategies, and insights tailored to the residency interviewing, including specialty-specific breakout sessions to address unique interview expectations across different fields. Target Audience: • Third and Fourth-Year Medical Students Webinar Objectives: 1. Identify common mistakes and red flags in residency interviews that can negatively impact an applicant’s impression and ranking potential. 2. Apply expert strategies and best practices to confidently navigate residency interviews, including tailoring responses to specialty-specific expectations. 3. Engage in interactive learning and mini mentoring sessions to gain personalized insights and feedback relevant to individual specialties and interview styles.

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Leadership Institute

The AACOM Leadership Institute offers leadership development opportunities to leaders and aspiring leaders in the osteopathic medical and medical education community. 

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Councils & Committees

AACOM provides opportunities for osteopathic medical educators to collaborate, contribute to and influence the future of medical education.

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Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship

Learn how advocacy can impact OME, osteopathic medicine and the health of patients and communities through the OHPF.  

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UME GME Task Force Steering Committee has 3 focus areas, 6 Action Groups and 3 subgroups

UME-GME Task Force

This initiative is to develop solutions in three major focus areas: the transition to residency, graduate level osteopathic training and strengthening the model of osteopathic training.

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NAOME Fellowship

Be recognized for your contributions to osteopathic undergraduate and graduate medical education and collaborate to shape the future of OME, as a member of AACOM’s selective academic fellowship program.

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Assembly of Osteopathic Graduate Medical Educators

AOGME Fellowship

The Assembly of Osteopathic Graduate Medical Educators (AOGME) Fellowship recognizes those who have made specific contributions to osteopathic graduate medical education.  

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Job Connection

Find a job or post a job for the OME community!  AACOM's Job Connection also offers career coaching, resume writing, reference testing for a fee and a free career learning center. 

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UME-GME Digital Resource Library

This digital library contains resources on osteopathic training, Osteopathic Recognition, accreditation, evaluations, technology tools and more.
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