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Students Prep for Residency

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6 tips to ace video interviews for residency

Application fees and travel expenses for residency can be costly, which is why program directors are piloting new ways to interview applicants via videoconferencing. Follow these expert tips for success, should your prospective residency programs offer video interviews.

Practice Management Digital

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4 ways physicians are moving health IT forward

Ever on the cutting edge of health IT, physicians are a driving force behind new technologies. That’s because they understand the value of tools that can advance patient care and enhance practice efficiencies.

Education ChangeMedEd Initiative

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Creating the impossible: Key innovations, solutions in med ed

AMA’s CHANGEMEDED conference covered new ideas, technologies and breakthrough innovations poised to transform future physician training. Here’s a roundup of the best highlights and themes from the conference.

About Ethics

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Medicine's role in preserving human rights and civil liberties

Each day physicians treat patients of all ethnicities and backgrounds who face limitations in their ability to access health care and receive quality treatment. Physicians must be dedicated to ensuring that non-medically relevant differences do not alter how patients are treated or the care they receive.

Practice Management Medicare & Medicaid

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Without modifications rule, physicians need EHR exemption

Proposed flexibilities in the electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use program for Medicare have yet to be finalized. The AMA is calling on regulators to issue an automatic hardship exemption so physicians aren’t penalized for regulatory delays outside their control.

Membership Benefits & Discounts

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1 Min Read

Do you have the dental plan you need?

MetLife Dental Insurance is available to all physicians, their family and practice staff. Acceptance in the MetLife Dental Plan is guaranteed for all AMA members.

Practice Management Medicare & Medicaid

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Regulations are sidelining patients: Physicians talk EHRs

Electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use regulations continue to interfere with practice efficiency, but how are they affecting patient care? Physicians took the floor at a special town hall meeting, giving the detailed answers to this question that federal policymakers need to hear.

Practice Management Claims Processing

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How to handle ICD-10 issues

With the arrival of the Oct. 1 implementation deadline for ICD-10, you need to be sure your practice can take care of any claims processing issues that result from using the new code set. The AMA’s ICD-10 Web page allows you to report any issues your practice is experiencing with how Medicare is processing claims now that the ICD-10 code set is in effect.