Resources: transitioning into practice

Getting started

• Getting a medical license: The basics
• State Medical Boards
• Preparing your Curriculum Vitae
• Search JAMA CareerNet
• Job Quest
  (PDF, 105KB)
  (Member benefit, from The Physician's Resource, July/Aug 2005)

Selecting the right practice

• Making the Right Choice
  (PDF, 440KB)
  This interactive online publication identifies questions to consider when exploring new practice opportunities, presents considerations in choosing a practice setting, compensation issues, and identifies some available resources for information specific to the community you are considering. Lifestyle and community resources, healthcare demographic resources, state and county information, and specialty society resources are also included.
• Annotated Model Physician Employment Agreement
  (PDF, 626KB)

Professional resources

• Starting a Medical Practice
  (2nd Edition, $45 for Members)
• Information technology solutions consider the potential savings
  (PDF, 155KB)
• Online medical consultations: connecting physicians with patients
  (PDF, 679KB)
• Compensation strategies
  ($45 for Members)

Practice management/private payer resources

• AMA's Private Sector Advocacy (PSA) Practice Management Center has developed 27 practice tips to provide physicians and their staff with educational resources and tools to address private payer and practice management issues.
  Health information technology 
• RBRVS: Resource-Based Relative Value Scale 
  Information on Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, the physician payment schedule for Medicare.
• Legal issues for physicians
• DoctorFinder 
  A database of basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States.

Medicare

• Medicare Advantage: What it means for you and your patients
  (PDF, 260KB)
• Medicare Compliance Manual 2007
  ($149.95 for Members)

Public Health and Patient Safety

• AMA Council on Science and Public Health 
  The Council offers reports on numerous public health topics.
• The Joint Commission (TJC) 
  Learn about national patient safety goals, practices, and solutions.  Also view sentinel event alerts and performance measures.
  These links will take you off the AMA Web site.
• Eliminating health disparities: AMA Initiatives
• Roadmaps for Clinical Practice series: Primer on Population-Based Medicine 
  Introduces the concept of population-based medicine as a strategy for reducing health disparities and integrating disease prevention and health promotion into routine medical care.
• Office guide to Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patient care (PDF,86KB, requires Adobe® Reader®)
• Obesity & Roadmaps for Clinical Practice series: Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity 
• Educating Physicians on Controversies in Health 
  A series of brief informational Web streaming programs to inform physicians about the challenges and controversies at the interface of clinical medicine and public health and to offer possible strategies to address these issues in their practices. Issues include quarantine, obesity, avian flu, uninformed consent, language barriers, STI vaccines, etc.
• Infectious diseases information 
• Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response 
• Adolescent health 

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

• Continuing Medical Education (CME) Opportunities