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Population Care

May 25, 2023 ·

Learn to deliver high-quality care to your LGBTQIA+ patients

Patients who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or asexual (LGBTQIA+) often face major stigma, discrimination in health care.

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Medical School Diversity

Apr 14, 2023 ·

If affirmative action’s struck down, what’s next for medical schools?

An adverse decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on two challenges to admissions practices could upend equity efforts at medical schools. Learn more.

Events

Affirmative Action in Med Ed: Exploring the Consequences of an Adverse Supreme Court Decision

Thought leaders in medical education and health equity will discuss the potential consequences of the Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard and UNC.

Change MedEd 2023

Events

Sep 27 - 29, 2023 ·

ChangeMedEd® 2023

ChangeMedEd® brings together leaders and innovators in medical education and related health care fields to accelerate change in medical education across the continuum.

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Health Equity

Q&A: This Latina ob-gyn helps other physicians know their worth

Claudia López, MD, wants physicians from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups to be properly valued in training and within health care.

Alec Calac

Medical School Diversity

Nov 29, 2022 ·

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.

Delegates at the 2022 Interim Meeting

Interim Meeting

Nov 17, 2022 ·

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.

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Health Equity

Nov 16, 2022 ·

Change resident-selection process to boost equity

The AMA says residency and fellowship programs should develop more transparent and equitable ways of recruiting and evaluating applicants.

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