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Teams should work together utilizing each members' skill, expertise and role.
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4 tips to be a better physician team leader

For team-based care to succeed, the team has to function ethically and effectively. Those objectives are achievable, but require physician leadership aware of how to promote both.

Scope of Practice
Dr. Kimberly Chernoby has been an AMA member since 2011. She is an emergency medicine resident.
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Kimberly A. Chernoby, MD, JD: Fighting barriers as physician and attorney

AMA member Kimberly A. Chernoby, MD, JD, has studied medicine and law, making her well-qualified to fight unnecessary interference in patient care.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
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Medical laws and ethics: What to do when conflicts occur

Physicians have tough decisions to make when medical ethics and law come into conflict. Learn how to properly weigh the two when faced with the dilemma.

Ethical & Judicial Affairs
Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE
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Kavita Shah Arora, MD: Improving health, reducing disparities

AMA member Kavita Shah Arora, MD, applies evidence-based medicine and research to health care policy to improve health and reduce disparities.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
An action shot of a diverse group of doctors running through a hallway.
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3 big ethical issues medical school doesn’t prepare you for

Find out more about three major ethical issues in health care on which new physicians believe they should have received more guidance.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Physician obligations don’t end when patients pursue care abroad

The medical tourism trend can upend patient expectations and physician responsibilities. New AMA ethics policy seeks to clarify the matter.

Ethical & Judicial Affairs
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Physicians to continue examination of physician-assisted suicide

Following deliberations by the House of Delegates, the existing guidance in the Code of Medical Ethics on physician-assisted suicide remains unchanged.

Press Releases
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Telemedicine prompts new ethical ground rules for physicians

With the increasing use of telemedicine, delegates at the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting adopted new policy that outlines ethical ground rules for physicians using these technologies to treat patients.

Digital
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CEJA rules in cases of original jurisdiction

Learn about the role the Council on Ethical & Judicial Affairs (CEJA) plays in which the issues involved are beyond local concern.

Ethical & Judicial Affairs