Year: 2016
Resolution Number: 98
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status: Complete
Author(s): Andrew Zureick
Sponsor: Nicholas Harrison, Tamara Roumayah, and Andrew Zureick
On behalf of:
Committee: Rules and Order of Business
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask the AMA to work with the Federation of State Medical Boards and state medical licensing boards to advocate for the elimination of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) exam and the COMLEX Level 2-PE (Performance Evaluation) as a requirement for Liaison Committee on Medical Education-accredited and Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation-accredited medical school graduates who have passed a school-administered, clinical skills examination; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask the AMA to amend D-295.998 by insertion (italics) and deletion [brackets] as follows:Required Clinical Skills Assessment During Medical School D-295.988Our AMA will advocate that [encourage its representatives to] the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) [to ask the LCME, to] 1) determine and disseminate to medical schools a description of what constitutes appropriate compliance with the accreditation standard that schools should "develop a system of assessment" to assure that students have acquired and can demonstrate core clinical skills, and 2) require that medical students attending LCME-accredited or COCA-accredited institutions pass a school-administered clinical skills examination to graduate from medical school.
RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask the AMA to work with the Federation of State Medical Boards and state medical licensing boards to advocate for the elimination of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) exam and the COMLEX Level 2-PE (Performance Evaluation) as a requirement for Liaison Committee on Medical Education-accredited and Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation-accredited medical school graduates who have passed a school-administered, clinical skills examination; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask the AMA to amend D-295.998 by insertion (italics) and deletion [brackets] as follows:Required Clinical Skills Assessment During Medical School D-295.988Our AMA will advocate that [encourage its representatives to] the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) [to ask the LCME, to] 1) determine and disseminate to medical schools a description of what constitutes appropriate compliance with the accreditation standard that schools should "develop a system of assessment" to assure that students have acquired and can demonstrate core clinical skills, and 2) require that medical students attending LCME-accredited or COCA-accredited institutions pass a school-administered clinical skills examination to graduate from medical school.
Fiscal Note: NULL
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