With the support of members, your Resident and Fellow Section fights to improve working conditions, reform America's health care system, improve medical education, and create tools to help resident and fellow physicians succeed both personally and professionally. Membership in the RFS ensures your voice is heard, not only in the AMA House of Delegates, but in the U.S. Congress and the courts as well. For over 25 years, the largest national organization of resident and fellow physicians has set policies that have been incorporated into national legislation or have been adopted by regulating bodies.
Improving Working Conditions
Your RFS is committed to helping residents and fellows foster a productive and sustainable working environment that is conducive to professional development and the safe delivery of care to patients. Your RFS Governing Council led the fight to establish duty hour guidelines and continues to refine those guidelines and monitor their enforcement .
- Overview of ACGME Duty Hours Guidelines
- Reporting Violations & Filing a Formal ACGME Complaint
(PDF, 21KB, requires Adobe® Reader®) - FAQs on ACGME Duty Hour Guidelines (PDF, 21KB)
- Intimidation to inaccurately report duty hours
This link will take you off the AMA Web site. - Background on duty hour guidelines, intimidation and AMA efforts
- Physician Recruiters: Your RFS helps to stop physician recruiters from interrupting education and patient care with unsolicited pages during working hours. Read the letters written by Dr. Maves (PDF, 45KB) and the AMNews article (PDF, 35KB) related to this issue. Please contact Anu Gupta at the AMA (312) 464-4277 if you are receiving unsolicited pages by recruiters while you are working.
Enhancing Benefits and Pay
- Benefits and Pay During Orientation: Your AMA (1) advocates that all resident and fellow physicians should be compensated, and receive benefits, at a level commensurate with the pay that they will receive while in their training program, for all days spent in required orientation activities prior to the onset of their contractual responsibilities; and (2) advocates that ACGME amend its Institutional Requirements so that institutions are required to compensate resident and fellow physicians, and provide benefits, for time spent in required orientation activities at a level commensurate with the pay that the resident or fellow shall receive while in their program. (See AMA Policy, D-310.967 )
- Graduate Medical Education Funding
- Resident Income and Debt Relief
Advocacy Letters
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AMA Supports Medical Education Affordability Act (PDF, 70KB)
Reforming GME Curriculum and Testing
- Initiative to Transform Medical Education (ITME)
Learn about the AMA's initiatives to promote excellence in patient care by reforming the medical education and training system to meet the needs of the changing health care system. - View the latest report (PDF, 312KB)
- AMA Opposition to USMLE Clinical Skills Exam
Creating Policy
Membership in the RFS ensures your voice is heard, not only in the AMA House of Delegates, but in the U.S. Congress and the courts as well. For over 25 years, the largest national organization of resident and fellow physicians has set policies that have been incorporated into national legislation or have been adopted by regulating bodies. The policymaking process of the AMA and the RFS gives you the power to create change and is one of the most unique and powerful privileges of AMA membership
Existing Policy and Reports
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Official AMA-RFS Policy (PDF, 384KB, requires Adobe® Reader®.)
The policymaking process of the AMA and the RFS gives you the power to create change and is one of the most unique and powerful privileges of AMA membership. To learn more, see Governance & Policy Development Process.
To make a difference, you have to be heard!
Become a member of the AMA-RFS today!
For additional information, contact your Resident and Fellow Section at (800) 262-3211x4978 or e-mail rfs@ama-assn.org
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