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Written by members of the AMA Physician Communications team.

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.

Digital

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How using EHRs may become less burdensome, more beneficial

Usability issues with electronic health records (EHR) and unrealistic requirements for the meaningful use program rank among the chief causes of professional dissatisfaction among physicians, but more than four out of five doctors say they prefer to stick with this evolving technology that holds the promise of...

Chronic Diseases

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Diabetes takes center stage in JAMA

A special theme issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released this week examines a variety of issues that will impact the treatment and prevention of diabetes, one of the most troubling epidemics in the United States and around the globe.

Career Development

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Framework needed for physicians to re-enter workforce

Academic medicine stakeholders delved deep into physician re-entry—including how to define re-entry and whether there is a need to create specific re-entry resources—at a special forum convened by the AMA Council on Medical Education (CME).

Digital

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Physicians call for better electronic data interchange

New policies adopted at the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting this week included calls for sorely needed changes to health IT to accommodate physicians and patients’ needs.

AMA PRA Credit System

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Doctors ask for closer look at maintenance of certification

Physicians voted during the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting to continue investigating maintenance of certification (MOC), osteopathic continuous certification (OCC) and maintenance of licensure (MOL), including assessing the impact of MOC on physician practices.