Patient decision aids might help with routine health choices. The science of decision-making also can help navigate ethically complex choices.
Maternal and fetal medicine fellow Tani Malhotra, MD, knows the fear felt by mothers with opioid-use disorder. She’s working to make better policy to address it.
Transform your practice’s efficiency by making these key workflow and staffing adjustments.
Discover practices and processes that can reduce gender bias in hiring, promotion, leadership and inclusivity.
AMA educational series for GME faculty covers the fight against burnout and how to develop professionalism and improve the learning environment in residency.
An ambitious project aims to simplify the ob-gyn Match process by reducing applications and creating a more equitable interview invitation system.
Before residency ends, use this resource to create a practical, personalized plan for the critical next step in your medical career.
AMA member Jordan Warchol, MD, finds the most rewarding part of being an emergency physician is getting to help people on one of the worst days of their lives.
Learn how the AMA has fought this year to preserve the patient-physician relationship, keep government out of the exam room, and maintain liability reforms.
Relentlessly working to advance important state legislative issues that protect patients and physicians.
Drive in style with preferred savings when you buy, lease or rent a car.
Find savings to help organize personal finances and manage debt.
Join an education session offered during the 2019 Interim Meeting.
The combination of powerful technologies and physicians’ distinctively human capabilities can advance medicine, James L. Madara, MD, tells delegates.
See how the Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD) studies long-term strategic issues related to AMA’s vision, goals and priorities.
The Council on Long Range Planning and Development (CLRPD) works on projects based on actions of the AMA House of Delegates or Board of Trustees.
Some of the current projects of the CLRPD include:
Find highlights and documents from the 2019 APS Interim Meeting in San Diego.
Find highlights and documents from the 2019 IMGS Interim Meeting in San Diego.
AMA member Spurgeon William Clark III, MD, remembers how patients would publicly thank his ophthalmologist father for helping them see again. He’s built upon that foundation of excellence.
AMA member Jennifer J. Bryan, MD, has made history as the first woman elected to chair her state medical association’s board of trustees.
Patient privacy includes a number of aspects and is a pillar of health care. Ethics of privacy, confidentiality & medical records discusses patient confidentiality ethics.
Digital
Patient privacy cannot be retrieved once it’s lost. Learn how the AMA has made protecting patient health data in the digital age a top priority.
Ethics
Respecting patients’ privacy is crucial. Find out how patient confidentiality ethics build trust, foster thoughtful decision making and improve care.
Doctors “must uphold the values” of the medical profession. That means providing accurate information, disclosing conflicts of interest, and more.
The AMA Code of Medical Ethics has guidance to help physicians seeking to document real patients for public broadcast.
Dedication to upholding trust, to preventing harm, and respecting privacy create responsibilities for physicians, medical practices, and institutions.
Information gathered in association with the care of a patient is confidential, regardless of the form in which it is collected or stored.
Physicians have an ethical obligation to manage medical records appropriately.
Disclosing information to third parties for commercial purposes without consent undermines trust, violates principles of informed consent and confidentiality.
