The BHI Compendium PDF serves as a tool to sustain behavioral health integration to achieve the goal of enabling timely access to equitable, whole-person care.
The AMA's how-to guides focus on practical treatment strategies for patients’ behavioral, mental and physical health needs.
Inappropriate scope-of-practice expansions threaten patient safety. Patients deserve care led by physicians, and the AMA’s here to stop scope creep. Download PDFs of infographics.
The AMA is focused on removing administrative burdens, providing real-world solutions and helping physicians rediscover the joy in health care.
Find the AMA's Observership Programs to help international medical graduates adapt to the practice of medicine in the United States.
The goal of the Reimagining Residency grant program is to transform residency training to best address the workplace needs of our current and future health care system.
PGY-1 Whitney Sambhariya, MD, PhD, tells students to embrace standardized patient encounters, and offers thoughts on what she would do differently.
These tips can help medical students excel as they hit the home stretch in studying for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).
Physicians’ spending tends to creep upward after finishing residency or fellowship. Learn with the AMA about how to avert that pattern.
Medical staff bylaws can be make or break to a young physician’s hospital employment experience. Learn more with the AMA.
Physicians can get involved in advocacy efforts alongside the AMA. Learn more and get involved now.
New AMA survey indicates physicians still feeling adverse impact from Change Healthcare cyberattack and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.
Medical students who join the AMA enjoy exclusive member benefits and perks to help them personally and professionally on their road to residency. Find out more.
Celebrate your grad’s incredible accomplishment by activating their AMA membership. Learn how.
Download and review the PDF list of pending reports from the Board and the councils, and submit comments and feedback.
Review the reports and resolutions submitted for consideration at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates.
See how the CCB recommends changes to the AMA Constitution and Bylaws and assists in reviewing the rules, regulations and procedures of AMA sections.
Apply for a leadership position by submitting the required documentation by the deadline.
AMA members age 65 and above are eligible to vote in the Senior Physicians Section (SPS) Governing Council election in April.
WPS Governing Council elections will take place April 1-12, 2024.
The 2024 International Conference on Physician Health will be held Oct. 17–Oct. 19, 2024. Learn more.
This two-day boot camp Sept. 23-24, 2024, is designed for clinical and operational change agents looking to eliminate unnecessary work and free up more time to focus on what matters most–patient care.
Meaningful use is the use of certified EHR software in the health care system to improve efficiency, safety, and quality of care. Stay current with the latest meaningful use articles and news from AMA.
Legislation adopted by Congress will allow a physician who applies for a hardship exemption from the 2015 electronic health record meaningful use program to be exempted from the penalties that would have been levied in 2017.
Physicians shared their own revisions to Stage 3 of the electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use program. Their plans call for revising the program to improve flexibility, expand patient engagement, and clear the way for increased health IT interoperability and innovation.
The AMA released a set of recommendations to improve the Meaningful Use program while focusing on promoting the interoperability of electronic health records.
The 2015 AMA Interim Meeting took place this week. Read these highlights from the meeting, and see AMA Wire's® full coverage of the event to learn more.
The AMA gathered physician and medical student leaders during its Interim Meeting and voted to adopt new policies on emerging health care topics.
Congress just received an urgent call to action from physicians: Unless lawmakers intervene in the federal electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use program, physicians likely will abandon the program completely.
Electronic health record vendors must test their products for usability. A new comparative evaluation employs a framework with a 15-point scale to compare the design and testing processes for optimizing EHR usability. The top 20 products were reviewed.
New regulations outline requirements for the electronic health record meaningful use program for Medicare. Find out what physicans need to know about some of the most important changes that will affect a medical practice.
Two major regulations pertaining to the electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use program were issued. The final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services includes changes in current reporting requirements and sets forth requirements for meaningful use Stage 3, which is planned for implementation in 2018.