This new year, look beyond diet and exercise and add health goals to your resolution list. AMA member physicians share health-related resolutions to add.
Rabia Nagda, MD, of Texas Children’s Pediatrics, emphasizes that every environment where kids spend time should be built with fall risk in mind.
This boot camp focuses on time-saving tools and strategies to reform organizations and enhance professional satisfaction and well-being.
The AMA provides regulatory clarification to physicians and their care teams in an effort to aid physicians in their day-to-day practice environment.
A framework for educators and administrators who create programs for coaching medical students—view videos, purchase books or download directories of workshop participants.
The AMA backs bipartisan legislation to reissue 40,000 unused immigrant visas for physicians and nurses.
Find information about the responsibilities and terms of service for the Medical Student Section (MSS) Governing Council and how to apply.
Get tips to distinguish yourself and detail your unique skills and experiences during residency interviews.
JAMA Network journals have editorial fellowships—chances for residents, fellows and early-career physicians to explore a career in publishing.
In residency and fellowship training, the business side of medicine often gets short shrift. Catch up on what you need to succeed in health care.
AMA to MedPAC: Physician pay should be linked to inflation and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update.
White House releases executive order on artificial intelligence regulation and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.
ChangeMedEd® is a national bi-annual conference that brings together innovative leaders across the medical education continuum to reimagine the way future physicians are trained. Learn more.
The 2026 American Medical Association Medical Student Advocacy Conference (MAC) will be held March 5-6, 2026. Registration is now open.
The Specialty and Service Society (SSS) is the largest caucus in the AMA House of Delegates.
Find out about the election bylaws and policies for being elected to the AMA House of Delegates.
Apply for a leadership position by submitting the required documentation by the deadline.
The council investigates general ethical conditions and all matters pertaining to the relations of physicians to one another or to the public, and make recommendations to the House of Delegates or the constituent associations through the issuance of reports.
Find out about the endorsement and nomination criteria for candidates for the YPS Governing Council .
The Medical Student Section (MSS) provides policy making resources for its members, including guidance on how to submit resolutions.
Compelling research, discussions, opinions and more—enjoy these original podcasts from the AMA for the latest in medicine and patient care.
Explore open and upcoming leadership opportunities within and beyond the AMA.
Graduate medical education (GME) is essential to creating physicians that can provide hands-on care for patients. Learn more about GME competencies and standards at the AMA.
A dozen experts—many of them physicians directly involved in medical education—presented an array of perspectives on the current state of GME and how to revise the system for the 21st century at a forum hosted by Health Affairs.
With a “strong affirming vote” from the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) House of Delegates, the plan to implement a single accreditation system for all U.S. graduate medical education (GME) programs moves forward, a significant step in efforts to create an ideal medical education continuum.
Medical students and residents who report higher levels of pharmaceutical marketing interactions were more likely to prescribe brand name drugs and less likely to rely on evidence-based treatment options, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
While the medical profession needs continued investigation of resident duty-hours, it also needs to encourage new models for duty-hours requirements, physicians, residents and medical students agreed last month.
A new online tool is helping residents and their training programs better understand at-risk populations—including the homeless, unemployed, underserved and uninsured—and improve their quality of care.
Innovative changes happening at medical schools across the country will produce future physicians with entirely different needs. As a result, graduate medical education (and continuing medical education) will need to make changes, too, medical education leaders said at a recent Association of Hospital Medical Education meeting.
Whether the “July effect” is real or simply lore, for medical students transitioning to residencies, this summer month is tremendously stressful. Internal medicine program directors have expressed concern regarding new interns’ skill sets and the lack of skill set standardization, according to survey results that appeared in the March issue of Academic Medicine.
Patient safety is a growing part of effective residency programs, so much so that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has built quality and safety into its requirements. But a recent study in JAMA Dermatology suggests that improvements around patient safety cultures during residency may be necessary.
Resident duty-hour restrictions have negative impacts on patient outcomes and performance on certification examinations, according to an analysis of duty-hour studies, which was published in the March issue of Annals of Surgery.
