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Board of Trustees

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Diversity at the forefront for new AMA Board of Trustees

The broad spectrum of physician backgrounds and experiences united together in a common purpose of improving health care for the nation’s physicians and patients is what gives organized medicine its strength, and the AMA Board of Trustees is no exception. The 2014-2015 board is the association’s most diverse.

Health Equity

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How groups are assessing impairment in senior physicians

Two different approaches to evaluating and screening for impairment in senior physicians were discussed earlier this month during an education session at the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting. The session was sponsored by the AMA Senior Physicians Section.

Research in Residency

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How to get your research published

Don’t make these mistakes when submitting your research for publication in a medical journal. Follow tips about the importance of a good abstract, don’t exaggerate your findings and work on revisions.

ChangeMedEd Initiative

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Why training adaptive learners will be essential to med ed

Preparing future physicians for careers in the constantly changing health care system requires more than clinical skills—faculty must help medical students develop skills in adaptive learning, too. Medical schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are devising ways to incorporate lifelong learning into undergraduate medical education curriculum.

Young Physicians

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AMA-YPS member receives Excellence in Medicine Award

Kavita Shah Arora, MD, a member of the AMA Young Physicians Section (YPS), is among this year’s recipients of the AMA Foundation Excellence in Medicine Awards.

AMA Policies

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AMA sets new course on key medical education issues

A more relevant and efficient maintenance of certification (MOC) process, evidence-based changes to resident/fellow duty hours to ensure patient safety, and improved access to care through innovations in residency program funding were among the actions called for by the AMA House of Delegates during the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Prevention & Wellness

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How to determine whether your patients have prediabetes

While 29 million Americans have diabetes, another 86 million adults are on the path to developing the disease because they have prediabetes. These new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underscore the urgency of screening patients for prediabetes to help them avoid becoming a statistic.

Ethics

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Ethics journal explores intersection of race and medicine

This month’s issue of Virtual Mentor, the AMA’s online ethics journal, explores the possible benefits and harms of using race and ethnicity in medical research and patient care. Medicine long has used race and ethnicity as proxies for physical and sociocultural characteristics associated with groups of people, based on ancestries traced to Europe, Africa or Asia.