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In patient care, what is the ethical role of risk managers?

Learn how risk managers can collaborate with ethics consultants, physicians and other health professionals to properly respond to complex questions around caregiving, ethics and law.

Ethics
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Health team communication especially critical in time of COVID-19

For medical residents, working as part of effective interprofessional teams is more important than ever. Learn what sets outstanding health care teams apart.

Improve GME
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Even small drop in task load can cut odds of physician burnout

Learn more with the AMA about what new research is revealing about the relationship between physicians’ administrative burdens and their well-being.

Physician Health
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Medical students: Start here to learn about health systems science

This third pillar of medical education provides insight into an increasingly complex health care system, never more critical than when medicine is tested by a global pandemic.

Medical School Life
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Medical students: Know the fundamentals of medical ethics

For generations, physicians have relied on medical ethics to guide their relationships with patients. An online module from the AMA provides a primer.

Medical School Life
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How health inequities outlive historical social injustices

A Harvard social epidemiologist argues that health care policy should account for the long-lasting impact of injustices on patients’ well-being.

Health Equity
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In EHR age, 5 proven tips to enhance patient-physician connection

Mismatch of time and expectations is associated with physician burnout, but improving the patient-physician relationship can help. Find out how.

Physician-Patient Relationship
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How Henry Ford shows the way on tackling patients’ social needs

The Henry Ford Health System has found innovative ways to address the social determinants that drive Detroiters’ poor health outcomes.

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Health Equity
Health System Spotlight
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How physicians can better care for Native American patients

Learn more about the ethical, social and cultural complexities of delivering care to Native patients living on sovereign tribal land and elsewhere in the U.S.

Ethics