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Medical student leadership opportunities

Take on leadership opportunities at the local, state or national levels to represent medical students and address their concerns—download PDFs or applications in DOCX format.

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Michael Suk, MD, MPH, at Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs forum
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Can AMA ethical guidance help health systems—and not just doctors?

AMA Trustee and Geisinger physician leader Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, MBA, was among those weighing in on a new direction for the AMA Code of Medical Ethics. 

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Patient Support & Advocacy
Health System Spotlight
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Patients deserve greater clarity on who is a physician—and who isn’t

MD, DNP, PA, NP. Patients are too often confused by credentials. The AMA revised the Code of Medical Ethics to improve transparency and quality of care.

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Scope of Practice
AMA Recovery Plan for Physicians
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Judicial function of the Council on Ethical & Judicial Affairs (CEJA)

Learn how the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) promotes standards of ethical professionalism among physicians.

Council on Ethical & Judicial Affairs
Kavita Arora, MD
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Physicians affirm, clarify duty to promote equitable care

The work of undoing health inequity is never finished, as the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated. The AMA has adopted ethics policy supporting it.

Health Equity
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Protecting reproductive health care means protecting physicians

Third-party interference with the patient-physician relationship puts both patients and physicians at risk and undermines public health.  

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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By doctors, for doctors: Ethics guidance now just one click away

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ new website brings ethics into the exam room to help patients and physicians with expert guidance on everyday issues.

Ethics
Bruce Scott, MD, and Lisa Egbert, MD, HOD speakers at 2022 Interim
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ICYMI: 10 stories to read from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting

The AMA House of Delegates leads the charge to protect reproductive health care, stop climate change, end the overdose epidemic, and prevent gun violence.

Interim Meeting
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Highlights from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting

Catch up with the news and key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting, which ran Nov. 12–15.

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