Membership brings great benefits

AMA membership offers unique access to savings and resources tailored to enrich the personal and professional lives of physicians, residents and medical students.

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Physician burnout: It’s not you, it’s your medical specialty

Overall burnout rate is down from 2017, but doctors’ well-being remains a pressing issue. Are you practicing in one of the most stressful medical specialties?

Specialty Profiles
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Targeted CME can improve health outcomes at your hospital

These CME courses can help achieve hospital goals such as lower lengths of stay, fewer readmissions and higher quality scores.

Sustainability
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5 reasons physicians are less likely to seek support

This is why the doctors who may need help most are less likely to seek physician burnout treatment.

Physician Health
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Medical ethics and end of life: What every patient should know

End-of-life care ethical issues have long challenged patients, families and physicians. Learn how to plan with your patients before crisis hits.

Ethics
James Jerzak, MD
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Job satisfaction at this health system is 92%. Find out why.

Green Bay—dubbed TitleTown for its 13-time champion Packers—should gain further renown for this winning approach to team-based care. Patient says, “It’s like I got my doctor back.”

Physician Health
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4 ways physicians can help advance precision medicine research

Physicians are key partners in the National Institute of Health’s All of Us Research Program. Find out how you can get involved.

Precision Medicine
Internist Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD
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2 ways to spark change in minority patients and prevent diabetes

Longtime AMA member Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD, talks about how to manage patients with prediabetes and diabetes to improve health outcomes for minority patients.

Health Equity
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Physician-led effort slashes post-surgical opioid Rx by 63%

University of Michigan physicians emphasize prevention in fighting the opioid epidemic that includes prescribing fewer pain pills after surgery.

Overdose Epidemic
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Improve health equity by collecting patient demographic data

Most physician practices do not collect patient demographic information, or they do so in unreliable ways. The data can help drive approaches to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.

Population Care