Resources: transitioning into practice

• New! Get board certified: Medical Specialty and Board Certification
  Requirements (PDF, 187 KB)
  
• New! Be prepared for your first employment contract: Model Annotated
  Employment Agreement (PDF, 449 KB)
  
• New! Watch Contract Negotiation Video presented by Catherine Hanson, JD, Vice President AMA Private Sector Advocacy
  
• Getting a medical license: The basics
• State Medical Boards
• Preparing your Curriculum Vitae
• Search JAMA CareerNet

AMA practice 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)
• 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