These JAMA Patient Pages provide plain explanations of conditions that commonly affect seniors, including osteoporosis and macular degeneration.
One wrong step can lead to a twisted ankle. Aly M. Fayed, MD, of University of Iowa Health Care, shares more about these common ankle injuries.
This boot camp focuses on time-saving tools and strategies to reform organizations and enhance professional satisfaction and well-being.
With guidance from the AMA, Dallas Nephrology Associates is turning their well-being survey results into initiatives that bolster efficiency and growth.
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.
For medical students with research ambitions, consider your need for patient interaction, specialty variation and other key factors.
First, take a moment to record your immediate reactions. Program directors and recent applicants give advice on the steps that should follow.
After the pressure cooker of residency training, it is natural to have that “Wait, now what?” reaction. Get some great advice on how to move ahead.
Before transitioning to practice, residents should learn the ins and outs on the stopgap medical liability coverage called “tail insurance.”
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.
AMA and Resolve have teamed up to provide members an exclusive 20% off on all Resolve contract review packages. Learn more.
In this Advocacy Insights webinar, an in-depth look into the complex health care issues facing the U.S. in 2026, and how the AMA is working to shape the landscape. Register now.
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.
Download the PDF to read the rules and regulations that guide the AMA to uphold its mission to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.
Download PDFs of reports on this topic from the Council on Medical Education presented during the AMA Interim and Annual Meetings.
WPS resolutions serve as an opportunity to address topics of importance to women in medicine and female patients.
The YPS encourages young physicians to get involved in different parts of the policymaking process.
Learn about the different career paths at the AMA from current employees.
In the news: Research finds evidence of four distinct autism types, 75% of U.S. adults may meet new criteria for obesity, financial strain ages the heart and more.
Hispanic health care has become challenging when confronting the health care disparities of the growing population in America. The AMA is addressing this issue by providing health care tips, population care news and more.
Claudia López, MD, wants physicians from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups to be properly valued in training and within health care.
Hear on the ways COVID-19 has impacted Latino/a/x communities, the pandemics impact on immigrant communities, testing, trends and equity.
Find educational modules to further your understanding on the policies, health inequities and biases impacting the Hispanic/Latinx communities.
COVID-19 has shown the Hispanic/Latinx community has not only experienced a higher number of cases and deaths but the pandemic has exacerbated inequities.
Throughout the pandemic, AMA member Jerry Abraham, MD, MPH, CMQ, has advocated for equitable vaccine distribution. Now he’s taking on climate change.
Inequities lead to worse COVID-19 outcomes. Learn why physicians should be able to account for that in prescribing decisions.
Doctors declare “poverty is detrimental to health.” Boosting pay among low-income workers would improve outcomes and lower health care costs.
Learn how AMA member Maurice G. Sholas, MD, PhD, looks at the whole child patient in the context of family, community, hopes and dreams.
1 in 5 U.S. residents has Latin American heritage, yet the health inequities they experience get too little emphasis given their scale and complexity.
