Stay informed with the latest updates on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1), or bird flu.
The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about milk safety and more.
Can non-physician care team members respond to patient messages? Learn more with the AMA's Debunking Regulatory Myths series.
Technology’s value grows over time with efficiency, productivity, lower costs and better patient outcomes, says Geisinger’s Narayana Murali, MD.
Learn how international medical graduates can enter a U.S. residency program, and the special requirements international medical graduates should consider.
When IMG Dr. Arnold Menezes moved the U.S., he had difficulty finding a residency program to take him. Now he’s a legend in pediatric neurosurgery.
International medical graduates (IMGs) face special challenges in physician residency interviews. These tips can set you apart.
Medical students can take hold of their financial futures by understanding these essential terms and concepts related to student-loan repayment.
As a resident or fellow pursuing a post-training career opportunity, a signing bonus is likely in the cards. What should you expect?
Resident physicians considering fellowship training should weigh how the subspecialty training fits into their life, financial and career goals.
2024 AMA overdose report highlights national actions and state-by-state data, and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.
AMA comments on MedPAC’s long-term physician payment update policy options and more in the latest Medicare Payment Reform Advocacy Update.
ChangeMedEd® is a national conference that brings together leaders and innovators to accelerate change in medical education across the continuum. Learn more.
Build a framework for the implementation of AI in practice during this seven-month shared learning collaborative launching April 2025.
Review the dates for future Annual and Interim Meetings of the AMA House of Delegates and AMA policy on meeting locations.
Download PDFs of the proceedings from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates.
Download PDFs of reports on this topic from the Council on Medical Education presented during the AMA Interim and Annual Meetings.
Download PDFs of council reports that advocate policies on emerging delivery systems that protect and foster the patient/physician relationship. Key Council reports on this topic have addressed patient-centered medical homes, precision medicine, APMs, telemedicine, and retail and store-based health clinics.
Find the agenda, documents and more information for the 2024 YPS Interim Meeting on Nov. 7-8 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida.
The Medical Student Section (MSS) provides policy making resources for its members, including guidance on how to submit resolutions.
Find a calendar listing the upcoming meetings of the CPT Editorial Panel.
AMA participates in health care conferences and events held throughout the U.S.A. as well as internationally.
Searching for adaptive medical education information? The AMA’s adaptive learning resources prepare today's medical students for lifelong learning in the changing health care system.
Learn how the ideas of leading thinkers on business innovation can be applied by medical schools embarking on radical change.
As part of the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative, a number of medical schools have developed leading-edge technologies that could be implemented on a wider scale and begin to transform medical education.
The path to preparing the ideal future physician is becoming clearer after a year of developing and implementing innovative ideas for training medical students. Take a look back at how the AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative made strides toward creating the medical school of the future.
The Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine's REDEI system (Research and Evaluation Data for Educational Improvement) will let medical students, their coaches and school leaders immediately input and track evaluation information, displaying a snapshot of each student’s performance in real time.
A special consortium of medical schools has spent the last year developing and implementing innovative ideas to transform the way future physicians are trained, and soon the medical education environment will experience the benefits of their efforts. In January 2013, the AMA announced its intent to fund five to 10 medical schools to implement bold innovations in medical education.
On the first day of TEDMED, the annual health and medicine edition of TED, transformative thinkers encouraged listeners to question current knowledge. Instead of putting imagination on trial, Jay Walker, curator and chairman of TEDMED, urged listeners to embrace new ideas.
About 200 academic physicians discussed the role of technology in medical education during the Harvard Macy Institute (HMI) 20th Anniversary Symposium last week in Boston, sharing ideas for transformational learning in the face of a changing health care system.
In the year since the AMA announced the participants in its unprecedented initiative to transform medical education and create new ways to train future physicians, there has been tremendous progress and consensus on new ideas.
Preparing future physicians for careers in the constantly changing health care system requires more than clinical skills—faculty must help medical students develop skills in adaptive learning, too. Medical schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are devising ways to incorporate lifelong learning into undergraduate medical education curriculum.
