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The 2011 limits placed on resident duty hours appear to have had no effect on patient deaths, patient outcomes or residents' examination performance, according to two studies published this month in JAMA.

Money is tight for medical students, and living on a budget during medical school is essential to minimizing the debt you'll face upon graduation. Here are some tips for medical students to create and stick to a budget.

The collective physician voice carried a lot of weight in 2014—both in the nation’s capital and in the state legislatures. Changes that took place covered a broad range of issues, including better access to care for veterans, increased graduate medical education (GME) funding and important updates to the electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use program.

Two essential elements of medical practice—patient privacy and the patient-physician relationship—are at stake in a case before a federal appeals court that involves a state PDMP and surveillance by the DEA.

The path to preparing the ideal future physician is becoming clearer after a year of developing and implementing innovative ideas for training medical students. Take a look back at how the AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative made strides toward creating the medical school of the future.

If you’re a busy medical resident, you might not always have time to follow the latest news for the profession. Check out the top news among medical residents this year.

From vendor shortcomings to impossible meaningful use impositions, many problems with EHRs need to be addressed. Learn more about the pain points identified in 2014 and the work under way to transform EHRs from a burden to a useful tool for physicians and their patients and improve the meaningful use program.

A number of regulatory, public health and practice issues took center stage for the medical profession this year. See the 10 topics that made some of the biggest waves among the physician community in 2014—and learn how they played out.