Physicians often counsel older adults broadly on healthy lifestyle choices, but prescribing specific actions can make a bigger dent in chronic illness.
An early sign of Lyme disease is a bullseye-type rash. But symptoms can worsen if left untreated. Two infectious diseases physicians share more.
Learn more about upcoming events and webinars offered by the AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy.
Find resources to help determine the right staffing levels.
Precision education is a developing concept and one of four new focus areas for the AMA ChangeMedEd® initiative. Find out more.
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Every visit with Congress is a sales pitch. Follow this expert advice for medical students to take their part in reshaping medicine’s future.
Get answers to frequently asked questions about med school requirements, the application process, the MCAT and more.
Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. A 17-year-old female patient is brought to the ED with lower abdominal tenderness. What is the appropriate next step in management?
Use AMA-negotiated options through Laurel Road to refinance medical student loans.
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.
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Download PDFs of the proceedings of the Annual, Interim and Special Meetings of the House of Delegates (HOD) from 2012-2023.
Download and review the PDF list of pending reports from the Board and the councils, and submit comments and feedback.
Download PDFs of reports on this topic from the Council on Medical Education presented during the AMA Interim and Annual Meetings.
See how the CCB recommends changes to the AMA Constitution and Bylaws and assists in reviewing the rules, regulations and procedures of AMA sections.
In honor of Older Americans Month (May 1-31, 2024), the AMA celebrates senior physician members (ages 65 years and above).
Find highlights about WPS activities and how its members advocate for patients and women in the medical profession.
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.
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Obesity medicine specialist Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, is campaigning to change the health system and a culture where too often body appearance comes first, and people come last.
Don’t fixate on a number. Learn from AMA practice-transformation experts how to match physician practice resources to what your patients need.
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, is working with colleagues to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. He also finds time to identify and counter misinformation on social media.
One doctor, fueled by data and determination, is providing the know-how that doctors and medical students need to help victims of sex trafficking.
American medicine is beset by disparities. Operationalizing health equity is the task embraced by the leader of the AMA’s new Center for Health Equity.
From awestruck medical student observer of the AMA House Delegates to service as its speaker, Bruce A. Scott, MD, has tirelessly worked for patients and physicians for more than three decades.
After dramatically reducing suicide among patients with depression, Henry Ford Medical Group is target-ing the stalemate that stifles evidence-based action on gun violence
For a physician scientist and father of an adult daughter with autism, there is no backing down when he sets his sights on putting vaccine misinformation in the past.
After years of leading efforts to understand the magnitude of the burnout epidemic, two researchers look to the next challenge: quantifying the impact of solutions.