Topics in Focus

Visit the 2019 Interim Meeting site for conference highlights

Resolutions and reports: View the business of the AMA House of Delegates

Comment on pending reports for upcoming Interim & Annual Meetings

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Population Care

Why IRBs must scrutinize collection of LGBTQ information

Transgender and other LGBTQ individuals sometimes take disclosure risks to participate in health research. The AMA is working to help IRBs understand and address the issue.

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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.

Interim Meeting

Interim Meeting education sessions

Join an education session offered during the 2019 Interim Meeting.

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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.

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