The AAMC is offering a one-day workshop, Every Day Bias Workshop, and a four-day course, Unconscious Bias Train-the-Trainer Program, to help diversity leaders in academic medicine and other professionals in health care and research mitigate unconscious bias and promote respect for all groups. The workshop will take place Dec. 6, and the four-day course will take place March 6–9, 2018. Both events will be held at the AAMC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Academic Medicine, a journal of the AAMC, is seeking original submissions from fellows, residents, and medical students on the topic of transitions in training. This includes but is not limited to reflections on the application and selection processes for undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education (GME), or post-GME positions; different curricular approaches to preparing learners for these transitions; development of professional identity; cultivation of new skills and responsibilities; or other issues of importance at times of major change. The deadline for submissions is Sept. 18.

The AAMC has joined an alliance formed by the Human Diagnosis Project (Human Dx) to create an online eConsult system to improve access to specialty care for the medical safety net system. Human Dx is one of eight finalists for the MacArthur Foundation’s $100 million grant, 100&Change. If awarded, the AAMC will support the development of a training program for primary care physicians and specialists using lessons learned from the association’s Project CORE (Coordinating Optimal Referral Experiences) model. Through this program, the AAMC works with academic medical centers to implement eConsults and enhanced referral processes to improve quality and efficiency of patient care by enhancing communication and coordination between primary care and specialist providers.

Bruce A. Meyer, MD, MBA, has been appointed to the newly created position of chief physician executive of Jefferson Health and senior executive vice president of Thomas Jefferson University, effective this fall. Meyer most recently served as executive vice president for health system affairs and CEO of the accountable care network at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Robert Min, MD, has been appointed president and CEO of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Physician Organization, and Adam Stracher, MD, has been named chief medical officer and associate dean for clinical affairs. Both appointments are effective Jan. 1, 2018.

LouAnn Woodward, MD, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, has been named chair of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), effective July 2017. Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, MBA, dean for medical education at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, has been named chair-elect.