Together We Lead: Unite, Reimagine, Align
2026 GSA-GDI-OSR Joint National Meeting

Call for Session and Poster Proposals!

Thursday, April 16 - Saturday, April 18, 2026
Hyatt Regency
Orlando, Florida

Submission Deadline: September 22, 2025, 11:59 PM PT

2026 Call for Proposals Submission Guide

Together We Lead: Unite, Reimagine, Align is a joint national meeting of three AAMC affinity groups committed to advancing and empowering learners, faculty, administrators, and professional staff through networking, leadership, and professional development to support transformation in medical education. This meeting provides a valuable opportunity for collaborative learning, leadership development, and community-building across institutions. 

This joint meeting convenes attendees from medical schools and teaching hospitals across the U.S. and Canada to share priorities, explore strategies, and strengthen the systems and services that support the academic medicine community—creating a unique opportunity to connect with peers and thought leaders, engage in meaningful conversations, and co-create solutions that advance the success and well-being of learners, faculty, and staff.

Meeting Objectives

This collaborative professional development meeting is designed to shape the future of academic medicine and reflects the AAMC’s ongoing commitment to cultivating excellence in medical education and fostering an environment where individuals of all backgrounds can thrive.

The Program Planning Committee invites you to submit workshops, panel discussions, rapid fire sessions, and posters abstracts that will:

• Address emerging trends and shared challenges within academic medicine and learner support.
• Explore innovative approaches to learner support, engagement, and retention.
• Provide professional development and leadership opportunities that promote the engagement and well-being of faculty, administrators, and professional staff.
• Strengthen institutional collaboration and knowledge exchange across the academic medicine community.

Collaborations

We invite you to submit session and poster abstracts that contribute to the conference’s mission of advancing learner support and institutional excellence. The Program Planning Committee will give the strongest consideration to collaborative submissions that embody the solutions-focused, cross-institutional approach of this joint meeting. Submissions should:

1. Address issues and/or topics important to all attending constituencies.
2. Focus on issues and/or topics meaningful to a clearly identified subset of the groups.
3. Reflect on multi-institutional perspectives or approaches that connect different parts of the organization.

Review Criteria

All submissions will be reviewed based on the following criteria: relevance, audience engagement, collaboration, learning objectives and take-home values, learning application, and clarity of writing. The Committee reserves the right to suggest submission consolidation, where appropriate, and will notify submitters directly of such recommendations.

About the Meeting and Affinity Groups

The GSA-GDI-OSR Joint National Meeting reflects the AAMC’s ongoing commitment to cultivating excellence in medical education and fostering an environment where individuals of all backgrounds can thrive.

• GSA works with faculty and professional staff in admissions, student affairs, student financial assistance, student opportunities, access, and retention, and student records at all member medical schools. They facilitate collaboration across medical education to advance the expertise and interest of student services professionals.
• GDI supports the efforts of AAMC-member institutions and academic medicine to foster an environment where people of all backgrounds and perspectives have an equal opportunity to thrive.
• OSR represents medical students nationwide and contributes to advancing the AAMC’s mission to improve the nation’s health.

Questions?

If you have questions concerning the preparation or content of your submission, please contact Christin Probst at chprobst@aamc.org, or Elizabeth Torres at eltorres@aamc.org.