The AMA collaborates on a tool to identify inequities in access, coverage and payment for mental health and substance-use services.
Learn about existential health care ethics, a field aimed at addressing ethical questions about intersections of human extinction and health care.
These requirements prevent meritless suits from being brought, the AMA and other physicians say in U.S. Supreme Court brief.
Bayhealth’s clinical leadership program empowers physicians to lead by first understanding themselves—building self-awareness, vision and impact.
A framework for educators and administrators who create programs for coaching medical students—view videos, purchase books or download directories of workshop participants.
International medical graduates (IMGs) play a critical role in U.S. health care. Learn how the AMA works to help IMGs meet the nation’s health needs.
When writing your personal statement, veteran residency program directors said that authenticity will trump AI every time. ChatGPT agrees.
From lower costs to a single personal statement, what to know about changes to the physician residency application process in emergency medicine.
Most physicians practice where they completed residency, but not all. Learn which specialties and states are most likely to keep you local.
It wasn’t easy for AMA member Daniel E. Choi, MD, to start his physician private practice. He wishes he’d known that it would turn out OK. Learn more.
Federal health research tackles kidney disease and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.
Scope of practice 2025 state legislative activity and more in the latest State Advocacy Update.
This two-day boot camp, Sept. 17-18, 2025, will equip attendees with the time-saving tools and strategies to reform their organizations and enhance professional satisfaction.
ChangeMedEd® is a national conference that brings together leaders and innovators to accelerate change in medical education across the continuum. Learn more.
Make travel arrangements for the Interim Meeting of the HOD taking place Nov. 14-18, 2025 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
Read the House of Delegates (HOD) speakers' updates for the 2025 HOD Interim Meeting.
Download PDFs of reports from the Council on Medical Education presented during the AMA Annual and Interim Meetings.
Download PDFs of reports on this topic from the Council on Medical Education presented during the AMA Interim and Annual Meetings.
Find information and applications to be considered for a leadership position with the Academic Physicians Section (APS).
Find the agenda PDF, documents and more for the 2025 YPS Interim Meeting on Nov. 14 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
Learn about the different career paths at the AMA from current employees.
In the news: Using tech may reduce risk of dementia, “clear vapes” may be more harmful than flavored e-cigarettes, adoption of AI outpaces governance and more.
Prior authorization (PA) programs create burdens and barriers to the delivery of necessary patient care. Discover new findings and insights on prior authorization from the AMA's annual prior authorization survey.
Reflects growing use of unregulated AI decision-making systems by health insurer industry.
Read the evidence supporting the need for prior authorization reform.
Physicians must show legislators how prior authorization harms patients. Then they need to tell them again—with the data to back it up.
At Sanford Health’s rural health care summit, the AMA’s president tells why Congress needs to pass proposed Medicare payment and prior authorization reforms.
Prior authorization delays and discourages care, but even when it is granted there is no guarantee the health plan will pay up. That must absolutely change, says the AMA.
The push is on for a 2025 Medicare payment update—but that’s not all. On prior auth, scope of practice, burnout and tech, the AMA fights for doctors.
A physician leader in Illinois describes successful efforts in the Land of Lincoln to address numerous flaws in prior authorization.
The AMA has advanced prior auth fixes at the state and federal levels, but employer-sponsored ERISA plans have escaped scrutiny. That must change.
Pediatric care is not immune from insurers’ time-wasting, care-delaying tactic—even in the emergency department.
