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USMLE®

USMLE Step 1 moves to pass-fail: Answers to 7 key questions

Educators and students had long been advocating for changes to Step 1 scoring. Learn more with the AMA about why the shift happened and what comes next.

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Residency

AMA-brokered deal secures coverage for Hahnemann residents, fellows

Court-approved settlement will pay for legally required long-tail medical liability insurance for the 1,400-plus residents and fellows affected. The AMA has underwritten the legal work in the case.

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Public Health

How Kaiser Permanente manages at burning edge of climate change

One doctor’s harrowing story sheds light on the personal and professional impact of increasingly common and severe weather events—and the health system coordination needed to survive them.

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Residency

AMA-brokered deal poised to cover residents affected by Hahnemann closure

1,500-plus displaced Hahnemann doctors could get long-tail liability coverage if judge OKs AMA’s underwriting legal representation of orphaned residents, fellows in the case.

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Digital

Why health care AI can’t replace medicine’s human component

The AMA deliberately uses the term “augmented intelligence” rather than the more common “artificial intelligence”—and there’s a good reason for that.

Precision Medicine

Driving the future of precision medicine

Over 75,000 genetic tests exist on the market, magnifying a host of issues with regulation, prior authorization and health equity.
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Public Health

Doctors demand presidential action on climate change

The AMA and 23 other organizations tell President Trump there is no single step that can do more for the health of Americans than meeting the Paris Climate Agreement obligations.

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Population Care

Exclusionary bathroom policies harm transgender students’ health

Physicians tell a federal appellate court why the medical community agrees that these policies hurt transgender students physically and mentally.

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