Topics in Focus

Visit the 2019 Interim Meeting site for conference highlights

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Interim Meeting

Interim Meeting education sessions

Join an education session offered during the 2019 Interim Meeting.

Speaker at an AMA education session

Judicial Advocacy

More physicians being sued by patients they’ve never treated

Do doctors ever have “legal duty of care” in such cases? An AMA education session explored the issue.

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.

AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, at the 2019 AMA Interim Meeting

Population Care

AMA president: Physicians have an obligation to be leaders

When there are situations that affect the health and well-being of our patients, we have an obligation to lead, says AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA.

AMA member speaking during 2019 Interim HOD Meeting

Opioids

AMA to boost education on methadone maintenance therapy

Methadone has been used for 40 years to treat opioid-use disorder. AMA adopts policy to explore expanding access.

Alternate delegate Jordan Warchol at the 2019 HOD Interim Meeting

Public Health

AMA: Stop sales of e-cigarettes that lack FDA approval

The surge in e-cigarette use among youth and lung illness outbreak linked to more than 2,000 illnesses and more than 40 deaths led delegates to call for a ban on e-cigarette products.

Press Releases

AMA announces policies adopted during Interim Meeting

New policies touch on EHRs and public health surveillance, as well as training program closures.

Delegate addressing the HOD at the 2019 Interim Meeting

Digital

Modernize public health surveillance to ease doctors’ reporting burden

New AMA policy calls for modernizing public health data systems to help alleviate the burden of reporting on physicians and improve the quality and timeliness of the data.

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