AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...
What’s the news: The AMA has released a comprehensive list of recommendations to improve U.S. maternal health amid the highest maternal mortality rates of any developed country in the world. To ...
Organized medicine’s advocacy has shown effectiveness in reducing health inequity in general and the misuse of race in clinical algorithms in particular. That is especially true with moving beyond a ...
What’s the news: In the nation’s first full year after widespread availability of safe and effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccines to combat COVID-19, U.S. health spending on physician services grew at just a 2 ...
What could your practice do with an extra two hours a day? That’s the question Marie Brown, MD, an internist and director of practice redesign at the AMA, has for physicians who may be skeptical about ...
Hospital employment contracts are difficult enough for physicians to understand on their own, but there is a second document that should always accompany a draft contract for review: the medical staff ...
The research one does as a medical student can further the body of knowledge used to improve patient outcomes. These scholarly pursuits also can shape careers and help bolster a residency applicant’s ...
You still see them on Turner Classic Movies: The country doctor working solo, delivering care and charging a simple fee for medical services. Not only has the health care industry changed dramatically ...
Health systems and physician practices alike are now facing the question of how to integrate augmented intelligence (AI)—often called artificial intelligence—into the workplace. If implemented ...
AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...
Medical students have a voice. During the recent AMA Medical Student Advocacy Conference, hundreds of students used that voice in conversations about key health care issues with legislators and their ...