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What doctors wish patients knew about trauma-informed care

Experiencing trauma can shake up people's lives, even if they don’t realize it. This is where trauma-informed care can help. Learn more.

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Prevention & Wellness
What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™
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Senior doctor wants to protect older adults from polypharmacy

Far too many older adult patients take too many medications. Learn about the senior physician behind recently adopted AMA policy to address this.

Population Health
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What medical students need to know about unions

Physician unions are slowly growing in popularity. What should medical students know about the collective bargaining in the profession?

Prep for Residency
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How tribal placements benefit Native foster children’s health

Learn why doctors say the Supreme Court should uphold law saying Native peoples’ foster kids should go first to close family or tribal members.

Judicial Advocacy
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Toolkit shows how developers can link health equity to innovation

New AMA resource offers insight into how digital health solution developers can ensure their products and services meaningfully advance health equity.

Health Equity
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Study probes resident-selection diversity in 11 physician specialties

Researchers examined data from 2013 to 2018 and scrutinized the rates at which applicants from different racial and ethnic groups matched. Learn more.

Health Equity
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Embracing team-based care to ease burden of a physician shortage

In light of projected physician shortages, the physician-led team-based care approach will go from being optimal to absolutely essential. Learn more.

Sustainability
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What is behavioral health?

Find AMA resources on addressing behavioral health, which refers to mental health and substance use disorders and stress-related symptoms. The AMA is leading the way on behavioral health integration (BHI) in medicine.

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Behavioral Health
Health Care Definitions
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LGBTQ+ seniors have seen lifelong discrimination. Doctors can help.

Find out the challenges facing older adult LGBTQ+ patients and what physicians and health care organizations can do to be more inclusive.

Population Health