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New AMA resource helps overstretched GME program directors

The online AMA GME Resource Program will help residency and fellowship programs meet the challenge of doing more with less. Learn more.

Improve GME
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Five steps to advance racial and health equity in health systems

New AMA toolkit offers guidance on goals and actions.

Press Releases
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2021 medical school class sees enrollment diversity grow

The current class of first-year medical school students made significant gains among Black and Hispanic students, AAMC data shows.

Medical School Diversity
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How the right strategy will drive medicine in 2022 and beyond

When crisis strikes, a smart response emerges from years of groundwork. Learn more with AMA CEO James Madara, MD.

Public Health
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COVID-19 has hit physicians hard—some more than others

Amid physicians’ pandemic burdens comes another: a rise in disrespect for doctors from historically marginalized racial or ethnic groups, survey shows.

Health Equity
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Inequities in medicine take personal toll on physicians, students

Two physicians and a medical student shared stories of how inequities and racism in medicine have personally impacted them as patients and trainees.

Medical School Diversity
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Health Equity Summit: Tackling health inequities

The AMA Center for Health Equity is pleased to announce co-sponsorship for the upcoming Health Equity Summit, Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities.

Events
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COVID-19  health equity resources 

The AMA is compiling critical health equity resources to focus on the structural issues that contribute to and could exacerbate already existing inequities, during the COVID-19 pandemic.   

Health Equity
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Learning about health equity is a must. Here’s where to begin.

Earn CME credit while learning with the AMA about the basics of health equity and why physicians must move upstream to improve patient outcomes.

Health Equity