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Delivering Care
- 1. Delivering Care
  2. Diabetes
  3. Ethics
  4. Hypertension
  5. Opioids
  6. Patient Support & Advocacy
  7. Physician-Patient Relationship
  8. Population Care
  9. Precision Medicine
  10. Public Health
  How decision science can help with gut-wrenching medical choices
  
  Patient decision aids might help with routine health choices. The science of decision-making also can help navigate ethically complex choices.
  
  Truth in advertising
  
  See how the AMA's Truth in Advertising campaign shows the need for health care providers to clearly state their level of training, education and licensing.
Practice Management
- 1. Practice Management
  2. CPT®
  3. Career Development
  4. Claims Processing
  5. Digital
  6. Economics
  7. HIPAA
  8. Masterfile
  9. Medicaid
  10. Medicare
  11. Payment & Delivery Models
  12. Physician Diversity
  13. Physician Health
  14. Private Payer
  15. Private Practices
  16. Reducing Administrative Burden
  17. Sustainability
  These 3 values are essential to Stanford’s work on doctor burnout
  
  When physicians are not burned out, it yields improved health outcomes for patients and other doctors. One physician shares how doctors can work together to reduce burnout.
  
  Why health care innovation can’t happen without doctors’ insights
  
  To advance the quadruple aim, technologists must heed this hard-won wisdom from users of the AMA Physician Innovation Network platform.
Education
- AMA program will create new leaders in health systems science
  
  New effort gives faculty members a blueprint for implementing health systems science in medical school and residency.
  
  4 keys to making a medical school coaching relationship work for you
  
  Understanding medical school coaching’s broad structural and day-to-day essentials will maximize the benefit of this innovative learning partnership.
Residents & Students
- 1. Residents & Students
  2. Preparing for Medical School
  3. Career Planning Resource
  4. Match
  5. Medical School Life
  6. Residency
  7. Resident & Student Finance
  8. Resident & Student Health
  9. Specialty Profiles
  10. Transition to Practice
  11. USMLE®
  Physician contracting: Job duties and liability insurance
  
  Learn from the AMA about negotiating your job duties as part of your employment contract, and also about liability insurance.
  
  Most popular “Shadow Me” entries shed light on specialty options
  
  Choosing your medical specialty is a critical decision. Here are the best-read entries in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” Specialty series.
Health Care Advocacy
- 1. Health Care Advocacy
  2. Access to Care
  3. Administrative Burdens
  4. Advocating for Public Health
  5. Judicial Advocacy
  6. Payment Reform
  5 big medical court cases that made a difference this year
  
  Learn how the AMA has fought this year to preserve the patient-physician relationship, keep government out of the exam room, and maintain liability reforms.
  
  State advocacy
  
  Relentlessly working to advance important state legislative issues that protect patients and physicians.
Member Benefits
- 1. Member Benefits
  2. Personal Member Benefits & Discounts
  3. Practice Benefits & Discounts
  4. Member Eligibility & Dues
  Auto & transportation discounts
  
  Drive in style with preferred savings when you buy, lease or rent a car.
  
  Loans & financial services
  
  Find savings to help organize personal finances and manage debt.
Organization
Board of Trustees
House of Delegates
- 1. House of Delegates
  2. AMA Elections
  3. AMA Policies
  4. Annual Meeting
  5. HOD Organization
  6. Interim Meeting
  Proceedings of the 2019 Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates
  
  Read the details of the proceedings of the 2019 Interim Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates.
  
  Interim Meeting education sessions
  
  Join an education session offered during the 2019 Interim Meeting.
Councils
- About the Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD)
  
  See how the Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD) studies long-term strategic issues related to AMA’s vision, goals and priorities.
  
  Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD) Projects
  
  The Council on Long Range Planning and Development (CLRPD) works on projects based on actions of the AMA House of Delegates or Board of Trustees.
  
  Some of the current projects of the CLRPD include:
Member Groups (Sections)
- 1. Member Groups (Sections)
  2. Academic Physicians
  3. Advisory Committee on LGBTQ Issues
  4. Integrated Physician Practices
  5. International Medical Graduates
  6. Medical Students
  7. Minority Affairs
  8. Organized Medical Staff
  9. Residents & Fellows
  10. Senior Physicians
  11. Women Physicians
  12. Young Physicians
  APS Interim Meeting agenda & resources
  
  Find highlights and documents from the 2019 APS Interim Meeting in San Diego.
  
  IMGS Interim Meeting agenda & resources
  
  Find highlights and documents from the 2019 IMGS Interim Meeting in San Diego.
About
- David Welsh, MD: Working hard to put patients first again
  
  AMA member David Welsh, MD, was 6 years old when his family doctor saved his life. That moved him to grow up to help others just like his childhood physician heroes.
  
  Catch this year’s must-listen medical podcasts
  
  Physician well-being, public health and the details of physician contacts were topics that generated interest, and podcast downloads, this year.
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Forum	Topics	Posts	Last post
Welcome, instructions and FAQs Subforums: Speakers' welcome (1), FAQs (1), Other matters of interest to the profession (0), Comments on the forum process (2)	3	4	n/a
Reference Committee on Amendments to Constitution and Bylaws Subforums: Resolutions (20), BOT Reports (0), CCB Reports (5), CEJA Opinions (0), CEJA Reports (4)	15	29	n/a
Informational Reports Subforums: BOT Reports (7), CCB Reports (0), CEJA Opinions (0), CEJA Reports (0), CLRPD Reports (0), CME Reports (2), CSAPH Reports (0), Report of the Speakers (1)	10	10	n/a
Reference Committee B Subforums: Resolutions (43), BOT Reports (9)	23	52	n/a
Reference Committee C Subforums: Resolutions (28), BOT Reports (0), CME Reports (12)	13	40	n/a
Reference Committee F Subforums: Resolutions (0), BOT Reports (7), CLRPD Reports (3)	3	10	n/a
Reference Committee J Subforums: Resolutions (41), BOT Reports (0), CMS Reports (9)	22	50	n/a
Reference Committee K Subforums: Resolutions (61), BOT Reports (0), CSAPH Reports (6)	37	67	n/a

Forum	Topics	Posts	Last post
Integrated Physician Practice Section Subforums: Resolutions (2)	1	2	n/a
Organized Medical Staff Section Subforums: Resolutions (13), Reports (1)	5	14	n/a
Resident and Fellow Section Subforums: Resolutions (34), Reports (4)	15	38	n/a
Medical Student Section Subforums: Open Forum (332), Virtual Reference Committee (688)	251	1020	n/a
Senior Physicians Section Subforums: Welcome and Instructions (1), How to Submit a SPS Resolution Idea for A-20 (1)	2	2	n/a

How decision science can help with gut-wrenching medical choices

Truth in advertising

These 3 values are essential to Stanford’s work on doctor burnout

Why health care innovation can’t happen without doctors’ insights

AMA program will create new leaders in health systems science

4 keys to making a medical school coaching relationship work for you

Physician contracting: Job duties and liability insurance

Most popular “Shadow Me” entries shed light on specialty options

5 big medical court cases that made a difference this year

State advocacy

Auto & transportation discounts

Loans & financial services

Proceedings of the 2019 Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates

Interim Meeting education sessions

About the Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD)

Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD) Projects

APS Interim Meeting agenda & resources

IMGS Interim Meeting agenda & resources

David Welsh, MD: Working hard to put patients first again

Catch this year’s must-listen medical podcasts

Forums

House of Delegates

Sections