HIV, STIs, Viral Hepatitis and LTBI Routine Screening Toolkit

The AMA’s toolkit for community health centers and emergency departments guides you from patient intake to linkage to care.

Routine Screening Toolkit
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AMA offers new payment concept to reward high-value specialty care

To help inform a new government strategy, AMA offers an APM approach that primary care and specialist physicians can use to improve outcomes.

Payment & Delivery Models
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When pandemic hit, Geisinger excelled with patient safety focus

With the right partnership, Geisinger Health System cut hospital-acquired incidents even as COVID-19 took hold. Learn more.

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Infectious Diseases
Health System Spotlight
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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.

Health Equity
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Tips for teaching good bedside manner with Nayan Kothari, MD [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about tips for teaching good bedside manner.

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Improve GME
AMA Update Podcast
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Tips for teaching good bedside manner with Nayan Kothari, MD

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about tips for teaching good bedside manner.

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Improve GME
AMA Update
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AMA supports removing blood quantum from enrollment questions

The AMA will urge medical schools to remove discriminatory questioning regarding blood quantum according to new policy adopted today at the interim meeting.

Press Releases
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Work to close insurance coverage gaps for preventive care

Physicians move to address gaps affecting three distinct patient populations, part of the AMA’s ongoing work to expand insurance coverage.

Interim Meeting
Jack Resneck Jr., MD, at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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Physicians must be empowered to put patients first: AMA president

Obstacles to care emerge from prior auth, Medicare cuts and politicized exam rooms. President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, details how AMA has doctors’ backs.

Interim Meeting
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James L. Madara, MD, address at the 2022 Interim Meeting of the HOD

In an address to the AMA House of Delegates at the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting, James L. Madara, MD, discusses how the AMA's strategic plans have endured. Access the recording and transcript of the speech.

Speeches