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14 Min Read

How physician burnout varies by specialty, gender and sexual orientation

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about how physician burnout varies by specialty, gender and sexual orientation.

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Physician Health
AMA Update
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14 Min Read

How physician burnout varies by specialty, gender and sexual orientation [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about how physician burnout varies by specialty, gender and sexual orientation.

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Physician Health
AMA Update Podcast
Avani K. Patel, MD
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11 Min Read

This resident psychiatrist stakes her claim as physician leader

AMA member Avani K. Patel, MD, MHA, has faced many biases throughout her journey in medicine. But they have only pushed her to accomplish even more.  

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Resident Advocacy
Thriving in Residency
Doctor using a computer
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3 Min Read

EHR gender gap widens as women physicians spend more time on task

Find out how much more time women physicians spend in the EHR and how that inequity is growing. Learn with the AMA how to ease doctors’ EHR burdens.

Digital
Women in emergency room, talking to her doctors
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6 Min Read

Challenges faced by women physicians don’t disappear with age

Learn about three issues that confront older adult women physicians and must be addressed to reduce burnout.

Physician Health
Health care worker in an operating room
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4 Min Read

New name for lifesaving procedure recognizes Black pioneer’s role

Vivien Thomas helped develop what’s long been known as the Blalock-Taussig shunt. More prominent recognition of his vital contribution is way overdue.

Optimal Health
Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD
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9 Min Read

Q&A: Making sure Hispanic and women physicians are represented

Growing up, Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, didn’t know which box to check, so she chose “other.” Now she works to give all their place in medicine.

Optimal Health
Health care workers surround a patient in a room
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9 Min Read

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.

Optimal Health
Person speaking at a microphone at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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3 Min Read

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.

Improve GME