Topic in Focus: Health Care Equity

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6 reasons to join the AMA
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Use the power of your medical student voice to move medicine

AMA Trustee David H. Aizuss, MD, details what he wishes he knew about advocating for patients and doctors as a medical student.

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Med School Life
Succeeding in Medical School
Alec Calac
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Q&A: How to support and retain Native American medical students

AMA member and MD-PhD student Alec Calac says medical schools can start by making sure their spaces and curricula are welcoming to Native people.

Medical School Diversity
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FDA, CDC experts: What physicians need to know—TPOXX and monkeypox, Part 2

In this 2-part episode of AMA Moving Medicine, experts from the AMA, FDA and CDC discuss tecovirimat, or TPOXX, for the treatment of monkeypox in infected individuals.

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Infectious Diseases
Moving Medicine Podcast
Communicating Social Determinants of Health webinar
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Communicating Social Determinants of Health: A Role for Coding

Learn how social determinants of health (SDOH) information needs to be coded and interoperable across the health and human services ecosystem.

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Creating “techquity” to bridge patients to health innovations

Despite billions invested in health tech, inequities persist. Focusing on “techquity”—equitable design in the deployment of tech—can help.

Health Equity
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AMA offers new payment concept to reward high-value specialty care

To help inform a new government strategy, AMA offers an APM approach that primary care and specialist physicians can use to improve outcomes.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Highlights from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting

Catch up with the news and key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting, which ran Nov. 12–15.

Interim Meeting
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Medical innovation in rural health care with Geisinger Health System & Sanford Health [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about medical innovation in rural health care.

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Population Health
AMA Update Podcast
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Medical innovation in rural health care with Geisinger Health System & Sanford Health

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about medical innovation in rural health care.

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Population Health
AMA Update