AMA Routine Screening Community of Practice

Meet with experts and other clinicians at the AMA Routine Screening of Infectious Diseases Community of Practice. Office hours available through July.

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Pearl of the Week: Extend prescription renewal periods

Find resources on annual synchronized prescription renewal and easing renewal stress for patients and care teams.

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AMA STEPS Forward®
AMA STEPS Forward® Pearl of the Week
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To raise HPV vaccination rates, doctors must gain families’ trust

Direct-communication campaigns by Doug Eisert, MD, a pediatrician at Confluence Health, and colleagues boosted HPV vaccinations by 31% in rural Washington.

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Prevention & Wellness
Health System Spotlight
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Does a doctor’s telemedicine video background matter to patients?

Physicians’ training and communication skills are important to patients. New research explores patient views on their doctors’ Zoom backgrounds.

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Fighting for Physicians
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Do’s and don’ts for effective patient-physician communication

Poor communication can exacerbate patient mistrust and nonadherence. Expert advice published in JAMA lists examples of what to say—and what to avoid.

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Prevention & Wellness
Succeeding in Medical School
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Intrusions into medicine jeopardize patients and public health

Our nation cannot allow political, judicial or ideological interference that compromises patient access to safe, evidence-based medical care.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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Suicide prevention guide to treat at-risk patients

Download a PDF of the AMA's "Suicide Prevention How-To Guide" that offers best practices on suicide prevention to enable primary care providers and teams to treat at-risk patients.

Behavioral Health
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What I wish I knew in medical school about standardized patients

PGY-1 Whitney Sambhariya, MD, PhD, tells students to embrace standardized patient encounters, and offers thoughts on what she would do differently. 

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Med School Life
Succeeding in Medical School
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Pearl of the Week: Celebrate successful quality improvement projects

Find resources on quality improvement (QI) projects and sharing the results.

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AMA STEPS Forward®
AMA STEPS Forward® Pearl of the Week
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How are patients really doing? One way to find out: Send a text

At Sanford Health, a low-tech, text-based patient-monitoring platform helps identify problems faster and speeds up intervention. Learn more.

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Health System Spotlight