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3 ways the AMA enables medical students to grow as advocates

Learn from AMA member medical students about how easy it is to get involved, create change and bolster your advocacy and leadership credentials.

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Medical Students
Succeeding in Medical School
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Highlights from the 2023 AMA Interim Meeting

Track the news and key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting, which ran Nov. 10–14.

Interim Meeting
Delegates at the 2023 Interim Meeting HOD
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Hold health plans accountable for physician network inadequacies

Narrow health-plan networks make it harder for patients to get care and add to physicians’ burdens. Learn about the AMA’s plan for change.

Access to Care
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Setting the record straight on proper use of modifier 25

Using modifier 25 facilitates appropriate reporting of multiple same-day, same-physician services. Learn more with the AMA.

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About the Council on Medical Service

The Council on Medical Service recommends policies and actions to the House of Delegates on socioeconomic factors that influence the practice of medicine.

Council on Medical Service
Excellence in Medicine Awards
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These 11 doctors are moving medicine forward. Find out how.

Learn about an inspiring group of physicians whose advocacy, research and volunteerism serve as shining examples for all of medicine.

Awards
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New law provides data-mapping tool to lower maternal mortality

The “Data Mapping to Save Moms’ Lives Act” will identify where help is needed so lifesaving interventions can be developed.

Population Care
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SPS member profile: Thomas E. Sullivan, MD

Dr. Sullivan discusses the activities and advocacy efforts of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), of which he is the vice chair of the Committee on Senior Physicians.

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Senior Physicians
Senior Physician Section Member Spotlight
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Many state medical boards looking to update telemedicine policy

Snowbirds and others who use telehealth with their regular doctor will gain when states follow the Federation of State Medical Boards’ policy lead.

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Fighting for Physicians