Learn how integrating behavioral health into primary care improves access, outcomes, and value-based performance.
Michael Welsh, MD, of University of Iowa Health Care shares how decades of breakthroughs have made normal life possible for many cystic fibrosis patients.
This boot camp focuses on time-saving tools and strategies to reform organizations and enhance professional satisfaction and well-being.
The new model design could help small, rural and specialist physician practices take part in ACOs and improve care for patients with complex needs.
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.
Medical students often put weight on the wrong factors when ranking residency programs. Learn what predicts less stress and more happiness in GME.
As preclinical preceptors, medical students get early patient exposure. Learn what role you are expected to play and how you can maximize growth.
Data from a physician recruiter organization shows licensing issues and other delays could push your start date back by months.
JAMA Network journals have editorial fellowships—chances for residents, fellows and early-career physicians to explore a career in publishing.
Collaborating and networking to advocate for patients and the medical profession.
AMA to MedPAC: Physician pay should be linked to inflation and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform 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 information on becoming a candidate for an open leadership opportunity with the IMGS.
Find information on leadership opportunities with the Organized Medical Staff Section (OMSS).
In the news: U.S. measles elimination status at risk, CDC adopts major shift in hepatitis B vaccine policy, DTaP vaccination rates fall across U.S. and more.
Learn about some of the innovative leaders honored for their work to move medicine forward during a time of challenges and promise in health care.
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.
