May 7 webinar: Overcoming IPC Challenges in Rural Health Care

Join AMA to discuss strategies to improve infection prevention in rural health care settings.

Overcoming IPC Challenges in Rural Health Care
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AMA applauds Congress for efforts to modernize graduate med education

The AMA continues to urge support for increasing the number of medical residency slots and health care access to underserved areas.

Press Releases
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How GME can move into the modern age

The country’s graduate medical education (GME) system’s problems received national attention last year after the long-awaited report from the Institute of Medicine called for transitioning the current system to a transparent, performance-based system.

Improve GME
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4 key changes needed for a modern GME system

The country’s graduate medical education (GME) system needs an overhaul. Here are four key changes the GME system needs, and how physicians are making these changes happen.

Improve GME
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How students and residents are saving GME

Medical students and trainees took to social media last week, calling for Congress to support graduate medical education (GME) and bringing attention to the impending physician shortage during Save GME Week.

GME Funding
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Students, residents deliver message to Congress: Save GME

Students, residents and fellows across the country are coming together this week to call on Congress to preserve funding for graduate medical education (GME) during Save GME Week.

GME Funding
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GME financing system needs overhaul: IOM report

A long-awaited report from the Institute of Medicine calls for transitioning the current graduate medical education system to a transparent, performance-based system. Adding additional funds to the system, however, isn’t one of the recommendations—a fact that concerns the AMA.

GME Funding
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Bill would fund residency slots for underserved areas

A recent federal bill is seeking to authorize grants for graduate medical education (GME) positions in states that have a low rate of medical residents relative to the general population, increasing residency slots in needed areas.

GME Funding
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California allots $7 million for primary care residency slots

Unprecedented grassroots advocacy by the physician and medical student community, including the AMA Medical Student Section and the California Medical Association, has led the California legislature to approve and the governor to sign a state budget that includes $7 million for new primary care residency slots.

GME Funding
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Alternative GME solutions needed to meet workforce demands

More graduate medical education positions are necessary to ensure there are enough doctors to meet the nation’s health care needs. Delegates passed policy to investigate new solutions for GME funding and workforce expansion and to continue advocating for additional federal GME funding.

GME Funding