Health Care Disparities

Population Care

Avoid "elder-speak" with your senior patients

That’s one practice tip from a physician expert who explains why there needs to be a greater emphasis on geriatrics in medical training.

Patient Support & Advocacy

Health care 2020: Here’s where Congress and the states are headed

The AMA’s senior VP of advocacy offers expert insight on what physicians should expect, and advises doctors looking to make a mark with policymakers.

Payment & Delivery Models

How community health workers can help improve outcomes, cut costs

Learn how adding these team members can help your practice address elusive social determinants that negatively affect your patients’ health.

Payment & Delivery Models

At Ochsner, innovation happens inside and outside system’s walls

Much has changed since it was founded in 1942, but Ochsner Health System has kept alive its legacy as a physician-run group focused on seeking better answers.

Judicial Advocacy

Why the HHS conscience-rights rule was blocked in court

The AMA has opposed the rule since Department of Health and Human Services proposed it, saying conscience rights are not unlimited and the measure would put patients’ health at risk.

Patient Support & Advocacy

Knocking down barriers to health equity

American medicine is beset by wide disparities. Operationalizing health equity is the task embraced by Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, who is leading the AMA’s new Center for Health Equity.

Press Releases

AMA adopts policies during second day of voting at Interim Meeting

Policies touch on collecting DNA of refugees, free sunscreen, mobile health apps, veterans’ courts.

Press Releases

AMA president speaks to delegates at Interim Meeting

AMA President Patrice A. Harris, M.D., detailed AMA’s ongoing efforts to reinforce science and evidence-based approaches to remove barriers to patient care.

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Patient movements could help doctors rediscover medicine’s joy

Avoid "elder-speak" with your senior patients

#MeToo in medicine: The after effects of harassment

Private practice: 4 ways team-based care can boost the bottom line

Medical students: Learn why team-based care is so critical

What medical residents need to know about fraud-and-abuse laws

Kaplan USMLE Step 3 prep: Scuba diver has epistaxis after ascent

Free med school still rare, but you can lessen your loan burden

More physicians being sued by patients they’ve never treated

Where the AMA stands on 7 of the year’s biggest health care issues

These 5 AMA member benefits help medical students thrive

Auto & transportation discounts

Interim Meeting education sessions

Proceedings of the 2019 Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates

About the Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD)

Council on Long Range Planning & Development (CLRPD) Projects

LGBTQ leadership opportunities

Minority Affairs Section leadership opportunities

Jordan Lippincott: Boosting access to care for underserved

L. Carlos Zapata, MD: Shaping evidence-based health care policy

Health Care Disparities

Avoid "elder-speak" with your senior patients

Health care 2020: Here’s where Congress and the states are headed

How community health workers can help improve outcomes, cut costs

At Ochsner, innovation happens inside and outside system’s walls

Why the HHS conscience-rights rule was blocked in court

Knocking down barriers to health equity

AMA adopts policies during second day of voting at Interim Meeting

AMA president speaks to delegates at Interim Meeting

Membership Moves Medicine™