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AMA members at 2019 HOD Annual Meeting holding signs with hashtag WomenofAMA
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AMA principles will further gender equity among physicians

Disparities persist after controlling for specialty and experience. Employers should review pay and promotion by gender for potentially discriminatory patterns.

Health Equity
Delegate at AMA Annual Meeting
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What’s needed to improve physician diversity pipeline programs?

African Americans, Hispanics and other groups are underrepresented in medicine. The AMA will examine what makes for effective pipeline diversity efforts. 

Health Equity
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Making med school diversity more than a box-checking exercise

The racial and ethnic makeup of American physicians doesn’t align with the racial and ethnic makeup of America. That needs to change.

Medical School Diversity
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Why the AMA is committed to a diverse physician workforce

Texas Tech’s decision to no longer consider race in medical school admissions decisions is a setback to the profession’s efforts on diversity and health equity.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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How free medical school tuition can change the physician workforce

Some medical schools are zeroing out their tuition bills. That could mean a more diverse pool of physicians who are freer to pursue different career and life paths.

Preparing for Medical School
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5 more medical schools join innovative medical education consortium

Navigating digital health and addressing social determinants of health are among the goals of pathbreaking projects the schools bring to the AMA’s effort to reshape medical education.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
Student Impact Challenge winner Kevin Tyan
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Medical students as change agents? How these six are doing it

The winners of a recent competition highlight how medical students can be catalysts for change at the health systems level.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Student SOS: 6 ways to avoid “distress” in medical school

Studies show nearly 50 percent of medical students experience burnout. Take time to learn the key signs of “student distress,” so you can boost well-being during medical school.

Medical Student Health
Siobhan M. Wescott, MD
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Siobhan M. Wescott, MD: A mentor to Native American med students

AMA member Siobhan M. Wescott, MD, is working tirelessly to raise the chronically low number of American-Indian students entering medical school.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine