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Patient Support & Advocacy

Social determinants of health: What medical students need to know

Economic instability, poor housing and other social-economic factors influence health. The AMA is offering a new way for tomorrow’s physicians to understand and act on social determinants of health.

Press Releases

New policy aimed at increasing diversity in physician workforce

The AMA will work to establish health care career pipeline programs, or “pathway programs”— to draw students from diverse backgrounds into medicine.
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Digital

AMA: Take extra care when applying AI in medical education

The AMA adopted AI policy that further highlights the Association’s commitment to transforming medical education across the continuum.

Press Releases

AMA adopt policy, integrate augmented intelligence in physician training

The AMA adopted policy aimed at incorporating augmented intelligence (AI) into medical education.
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Residency

8 transformative residency-training projects awarded AMA grants

Interprofessional team-based care, rural health disparities and resident well-being among areas tackled in the GME efforts.

Press Releases

AMA announces awardees of $15M Reimagining Residency Initiative

AMA announces the final eight award recipients that will receive funding as part of its new initiative aimed at significantly transforming residency training.
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Accelerating Change in Medical Education

7 barriers to implementing a health systems sciences curriculum

Learn about the bumps along the road that medical education leaders encounter and some advice on how to overcome them.
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Preparing for Medical School

MCAT scores and medical school success: Do they correlate?

The MCAT is key to earning admission to medical school. How well the test score predicts your med school career is a bit more complicated. Find out why.

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