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What it’s like in interventional cardiology: Shadowing Dr. Azrak

Personal interest and content of specialty are the most popular motivating factors for medical students when they pick a career path.

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Specialty Profiles
"Shadow Me" Specialty Series
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The 11 factors that influence med student specialty choice

Personal interest and content of specialty are the most popular motivating factors for medical students when they pick a career path.

Specialty Profiles
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A medical resident’s view of COVID-19: Dystopian tale come to life

Working as an internal medicine resident during the pandemic’s peak feels like something from a horror story. Learn how writing about it can help.

Resident Wellness
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Medical specialty choice: Should residency training length matter?

Find out how long residency training lasts in each specialty, and learn with the AMA how big a factor that should play in your specialty choice.

Specialty Profiles
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After Hahnemann, AMA steps up efforts to protect residents

More closures like that of Philadelphia’s Hahnemann University Hospital could threaten residents and fellows.

Resident Advocacy
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Allyship and gender inequity: What medical residents need to know

Women in medicine face more hurdles—in both pay and advancement—than their peers. One medical resident led the development of a curriculum to address those realities.

Health Equity
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AMA announces policies adopted on final day of Special Meeting

Policies adopted include improving access to substance use disorder treatment, protection for residents and fellows.

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Building lesson plans to make medical residents better teachers

Learn with the AMA how a core feature of high school education can be applied in medical schools and GME to improve clinical reasoning skills.

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Can simulations help residents uncover social needs affecting health?

Health inequity manifests throughout the health care system but nowhere more than in safety net settings. Learn with the AMA how to head it off.

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