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 offers guidance to retired physicians during COVID-19

Careful consideration must be given to the health and safety of retired physicians.

Press Releases
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March 27, 2020: National Advocacy Update

More PPE, testing components and practice support urgently needed to fight COVID-19 and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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AMA: Fix immigration issues so IMGs can help fight COVID-19

To ensure an adequate physician workforce in the COVID-19 fight, non-U.S. citizen physicians need to stay and IMGs need to start residency training.

Infectious Diseases
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AMA: U.S. should open visas to international physicians amid COVID-19

Residents and fellow physicians are an important part of the health care teams serving on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.

Press Releases
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5 ways medical students can assist during the COVID-19 pandemic

Just because medical students aren’t in direct patient contact doesn’t mean they aren’t aiding in the fight to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Med School Life
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Teleconsultation efforts help fill gaps in specialty care access

“Move knowledge, not people” is the principle behind an innovative program that demonstrates the power of solving problems through collaboration.

Digital
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Physicians weigh in on DACA case before Supreme Court

Physicians tell the U.S. Supreme Court that eliminating the current policy would worsen physician shortages and hamper emergency preparedness.

Judicial Advocacy
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Why student-loan forgiveness is making primary care more attractive

A decade’s worth of data from osteopathic medical graduates finds that those making use of loan-forgiveness or repayment programs were likelier to opt for primary care specialties.

Specialty Profiles
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How is GME funding being spent? The AMA calls for answers

HHS should collect data on how graduate medical education programs are meeting the country’s physician workforce needs.

GME Funding