The $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill makes millions of dollars in emergency loans available to physician groups and other small businesses. Find out more with the AMA.
COVID-19 doesn’t stop at state borders, so the AMA is urging all 50 of the nation’s governors to support statewide, emergency stay-at-home orders.
Physicians and other health care workers frequently go long hours between meals or breaks and often need to eat and drink at their desk or work area. There is a perception that the rules regarding where physicians and other health care workers can have food or beverages tend to be overly strict.
More than 84% of all office visits to primary care physicians involve medication therapy (CDC, 2016), refilling prescriptions for approximately 12 patients each day who were not otherwise counted as an office visit or condition-specific telephone call (Baron, 2010). When these activities are combined with additional administrative and regulatory burdens, primary care teams experience considerable strain and an increased workload (Arndt et al., 2017). It is imperative to identify practical solutions to these challenges.
Learn about the AMA’s influential role in setting standards for U.S. medical education, and what’s being done to redesign undergraduate and graduate training for the 21st century.
Residents can help identify and mitigate lapses that can harm patients. Learn more with the AMA on tips to improve safety processes.
Searching for continuity amid a pandemic, medical schools are moving from physical classrooms to virtual ones. How can med students succeed in them?
After years of training, AMA members who matched with residency programs ponder how they will impact medicine in the next stage of their physician training.
Should vagaries of hospital ownership have bearing on physicians’ ability to speak confidentially with attorneys? Washington’s highest court considers the issue.
The codes ensure uniform language for medical services and procedures, physicians tell a federal court in a brief, and other uses erode patient trust.
You know all about JAMA, of course. Now check out these other great AMA member benefits designed to help physicians on their professional and personal journeys.
From career planning to loan refinancing, the AMA offers benefits that can help you flourish personally and professionally.
Make travel arrangements and reserve child care for the June 6-10, 2020 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
The June 2020 House of Delegates meeting has been suspended due to the COVID—19 pandemic.
See how the Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD) studies long-term strategic issues related to AMA’s vision, goals and priorities.
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:
View the candidates for the Minority Affairs Section (MAS) elections.
View the candidates for the International Medical Graduates Section (IMGS) elections.
AMA member Scott A. Pasichow, MD, was inspired by the care and compassion exhibited by the nurses and doctors caring for his brother who had cancer.
The global pandemic is an all-hands-on-deck moment. Retired doctors, IMGs, and DACA recipients can play vital roles to help us stop the deadly coronavirus.
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