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4 Min Read

Medical students: Start here to learn about health systems science

This third pillar of medical education provides insight into an increasingly complex health care system, never more critical than when medicine is tested by a global pandemic.

Med School Life
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Medical students: Know the fundamentals of medical ethics

For generations, physicians have relied on medical ethics to guide their relationships with patients. An online module from the AMA provides a primer.

Med School Life
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How health inequities outlive historical social injustices

A Harvard social epidemiologist argues that health care policy should account for the long-lasting impact of injustices on patients’ well-being.

Health Equity
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4 Min Read

In EHR age, 5 proven tips to enhance patient-physician connection

Mismatch of time and expectations is associated with physician burnout, but improving the patient-physician relationship can help. Find out how.

Digital
African-American woman holding a baby on her chest as she lays down.
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How Henry Ford shows the way on tackling patients’ social needs

The Henry Ford Health System has found innovative ways to address the social determinants that drive Detroiters’ poor health outcomes.

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Health Equity
Health System Spotlight
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3 Min Read

How physicians can better care for Native American patients

Learn more about the ethical, social and cultural complexities of delivering care to Native patients living on sovereign tribal land and elsewhere in the U.S.

Ethics
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3 Min Read

AMA, FDA launch CME on newly updated nutrition facts label

The course offers easy and practical strategies to help patients use the newly updated label to make healthy food choices

Press Releases
Silhouette of a pair of health care workers in a hallway
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4 Min Read

What kind of person should the physician be?

Crisis calls for revisiting medicine’s foundations. Learn from a pioneer of American bioethics about a virtue-based approach to conceiving the doctor’s identity.

Ethics
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Ask physicians which daily tasks fall into “stupid stuff” pile

For physician practices and health systems looking to cut time-wasting tasks, here’s how to engage doctors and other health professionals in the process.

Sustainability