Illinois CME Requirements

Learn about the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation (IDFPR) and earn over 100 of your continuing medical education (CME) credits online with the AMA Ed Hub.

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Medical Student Section (MSS) meetings & events 

Learn more about the meetings and events held by the Medical Student Section (MSS) for MSS members.

Medical Students

Are you a physician in Illinois?

Visit AMA's Find a Doctor to claim your physician page, verify your information, and add practice details.

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What’s the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact? How can it help you?

More than 200,000 licenses have been issued through this cross-state licensure initiative. Here’s what residents and other physicians should know.

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This Ochsner Health “intrapreneur” has tips for innovating in-house

Korak Sarkar, MD, MHDS, leads a biodesign lab at Ochsner Health and details how physicians can pursue innovation from within their organizations.

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Precision education

Precision education is a developing concept and one of four new focus areas for the AMA ChangeMedEd® initiative. Find out more.

ChangeMedEd Initiative

Physician Workforce Maps

The AMA Health Workforce Mapper is a free, customizable, interactive tool that illustrates the geographic distribution of the health care workforce. 

Explore Illinois's Health Care Workforce
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Finding my place in medicine: Darren Gitelman, MD

After 20 years at one institution, Dr Gitelman, a behavioral neurologist, switched jobs for the opportunity to build a new program. It transformed his career.

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Finding My Place in Medicine
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Have a passion for problem-solving? Consider entrepreneurial path

Health AI entrepreneur Khan Siddiqui, MD, details how physicians’ traits can transfer to business ventures and the likely challenges they will face.

Career Development
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Physician leadership is changing. Here’s what it takes.

Future physician leaders need more than management tracks. They need time, mentorship and authority to help redesign care.

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Observership FAQs

The AMA provides helpful information for international medical graduates about the observership process in the U.S.

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June 18, 2026: State Advocacy Update

Illinois legislators pass Transparency in Downcoding Act, and more in the latest State Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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3 rules for getting your physician-led startup off the ground

Natalie Davis, MD, founded PreventScripts to solve the lifestyle disease crisis. Now she’s sharing her results—in this story and at a can’t-miss AMA event.

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