The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the measles outbreak of 2024.
Find resources on eliminating unnecessary tasks.
Change Healthcare experiences a cyber security issue impacting prior procedure authorizations, electronic prescribing and other patient care functions.
Otolaryngologists can earn CME with these clinical challenges on unusual presentations of dysphagia, vestibular dysfunction, vasculitis and more.
Addressing medical education gaps requires delivering the right education to the right learner at the right time. Find out more with the AMA.
Each month, the AMA Medical Student Outreach Program (MSOP) identifies one event to highlight as the Section Involvement Grant Event of the Month. Find out more.
You worked hard to succeed in medical school, now own your next adventure. AMA is your ally on the journey to residency and beyond.
Research sheds light on how the challenge of transitioning from residency to attending physician varies by specialty. Learn more with the AMA.
Reading a contract may be tedious, but spotting problematic language could save you years of disappointment. Learn more with the AMA.
Download an Advocacy Resource Center brochure PDF to learn how the AMA is relentlessly working to advance important state legislative issues that protect patients and physicians.
Learn what the AMA is doing to better the nation’s health and empower physicians.
The limited time opportunity for AMA members to access exclusive savings off the AMBOSS Library and Qbanks ended March 15, 2024.
AMA Medical Student Advocacy Conference (MAC) attendees can now access special savings on UpToDate®.
Find travel, hotel, child care, and inauguration details for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates taking place June 7-12 in Chicago.
Download and review the PDF list of pending reports from the Board and the councils, and submit comments and feedback.
Apply for a leadership position by submitting the required documentation by the deadline.
Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies establishing the AMA vision for health system reform to cover the uninsured and expand health insurance coverage and choice.
Representatives for the YPS Assembly represent the interests of young physicians and are voting members. Apply to be a member of the governing council.
Find the agenda, documents and more for the 2024 MSS Annual Meeting on June 7 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
The 2024 International Conference on Physician Health will be held Oct. 17–Oct. 19, 2024. Learn more.
This two-day boot camp Sept. 23-24, 2024, is designed for clinical and operational change agents looking to eliminate unnecessary work and free up more time to focus on what matters most–patient care.
Physician organizations tell U.S. Supreme Court that the government had a compelling reason to act on COVID-19 vaccine disinformation: Saving lives.
The AMA helps physicians build a better future for medicine, advocating in the courts and on the Hill to remove obstacles to patient care and confront today’s greatest health crises.
Las Vegas shooter used bump stocks to slaughter 60 people in 2017. Physicians share firsthand stories on the impact of gun violence.
Some positive signs in effort to level playing field on disputes between physicians and payers. Also, the independent-dispute resolution portal reopens.
Professionals with doctorates in nursing practice have sued for the right to be called doctor. Find out why the AMA and others are fighting back.
Find out how the AMA’s fighting a law that would bar physicians from knowing employees’ status for any vaccine, putting patients’ health at risk.
The AMA and American Hospital Association urge appeals court to uphold decision tossing unfair, opaque dispute-resolution process. Learn more.
Letting patients subjectively decide when they’ve stopped seeking care to circumvent a two-year limit to file a lawsuit drives up costs, uncertainty.
Patients and the health system suffer if liability concerns stop doctors from reporting fraudulent or incompetent behavior. Learn more with the AMA.
Hospitals must not be allowed to put profit before care quality, the AMA and Medical Society of New Jersey tell the state Supreme Court.