Louisiana CME Requirements

Learn about the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME) and earn your continuing medical education (CME) credits online with the AMA Ed Hub.

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Residents bring creative vision to pediatric ophthalmology

Resident physicians at LSU School of Medicine want to use child patients’ creativity to establish a connection.

Residency Life

Are you a physician in Louisiana?

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

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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
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Better handoffs help home care cut hospital readmissions

Ochsner Health shows how coordinated home care can reduce readmissions, smooth transitions and keep patients from returning to the hospital.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Health System Spotlight
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What doctors want patients to know about West Nile virus

Most West Nile virus infections cause no symptoms, but some can lead to severe illness. Mosquito-bite prevention remains the best defense.

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Infectious Diseases
What Doctors Want Patients to Know™

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 Louisiana's Health Care Workforce
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State medical liability reform

Download PDFs of state law charts, issue briefs and model legislation to learn how the AMA pursues medical liability laws on the state level to reshape the current medical liability system to better serve both physicians and patients.

State Advocacy
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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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Career Development
Health System Spotlight
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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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Career Development
Health System Spotlight

Observership FAQs

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

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At Ochsner Health, better work drives better patient experience

The Gulf South-based health system found that when patient and employee experience teams share data and listen to feedback, cultural transformation begins.

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Prevention & Wellness
Health System Spotlight
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More time with patients restores joy in medicine for physicians

At CenterWell Senior Primary Care, building in enough time for doctors to develop deeper knowledge of their patients’ needs is bolstered by dividing tasks within a team.

Physician Health