Michael G. Knight, MD, MSHP
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4 Min Read

3 ways medical students can help reverse distrust in medicine

U.S. medicine’s racist legacy has sown distrust among patients from historically marginalized communities. Medical students can push for systemic change.

Health Equity
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3 Min Read

What sets back care for transgender patients in the exam room

Kameryn J. Lee, MD, MSPH, is an ob-gyn and a transgender woman. “It’s a terrible feeling” to sense discomfort from one’s doctor, she says. Learn more.

Population Health
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4 Min Read

How health systems will learn together to advance health equity

The AMA, Joint Commission, Brigham and Women’s, and eight leading health systems will collaborate to embed equity into care-improvement efforts.

Health Equity
Haidn E. Foster
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6 Min Read

Q&A: Why this medical student leader is an AMA member for life

Haidn Foster, MD, is the outgoing chair of the AMA Medical Student Section. He details how the AMA empowers students to move medicine forward.

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Med School Life
Succeeding in Medical School
Jack Resneck Jr., MD, at the 2022 Annual Meeting
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5 Min Read

New AMA president: Physicians must be guided by hope, not fear

In Association’s first in-person inaugural since pandemic, dermatologist Jack Resneck Jr., MD, said the AMA will be there for patients and doctors.

Leadership
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4 Min Read

5 principles show how to foster equity using health IT innovation

The In Full Health initiative aims to use health IT innovation as a tool to advance equity. Its five principles describe how this will be done.

Health Equity
Mar 24, 2022 ·
50 Min Read

Racial and health equity: Concrete STEPS for health systems

Experts discuss steps for advancing racial and health equity within a health care system—watch now and download companion content.

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Events
AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy Webinar Series
Overhead shot of a group of people shaped like a speech bubble
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4 Min Read

Turn health equity talk into action: 5 steps for health systems

What are the moves your mid-size or large health care organization can make to advance health equity? Learn with the AMA.

Health Equity
Person in grocery store
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4 Min Read

Pandemic’s devastation among Latinos too often made invisible

1 in 5 U.S. residents has Latin American heritage, yet the health inequities they experience get too little emphasis given their scale and complexity.

Population Health