The University of Michigan Medical School has won a $1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association to accelerate its major curriculum revision, officials announced Friday.

U-M is one of 11 schools across the country to win the grant from the AMA in a competitive application process. The five-year grant is intended to promote change in medical education.

Dr. Raj Mangrulkar

Courtesy U-M

Mangrulkar said the Medical School does an outstanding job now in producing doctors with extensive scientific knowledge and clinical skills but society demands doctors that know how to work as a team and to lead change.

We dont think we can change the health system not just U-M, but the national health system without changing our graduates, Mangrulkar said.

Part of the new team-based health care model the Medical School is pursing in its curriculum includes a concept called M-Home.

A group of 12 to 15 students would be assigned to work together in a learning community for the four years of their training at the Medical School.

Each M-Home unit would be linked with a set of faculty advisers and mentors that would follow the students through their career at U-M.

The M-Home concept seeks to change the way students interact with faculty advisers now, Mangrulkar said, explaining that a student at U-M typically encounters many different advisers that can frequently change.

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U-M Medical School's curriculum revision gets boost from $1.1M award