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3 MIN READ

AMA seeks more help for medical students, residents with disabilities

To improve workforce diversity and patient care, medical schools and GME institutions must remove barriers and refocus on student and trainee abilities, not limitations.

Medical School Diversity
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AMA adopts new policies on final day of Special Meeting

New positions address telehealth confidentiality, medical student training and prescription drug monitoring programs.

Press Releases
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Boost for 3 big ideas to improve diversity in medical education

The U.S. physician workforce doesn’t look like the nation. Learn how ambitious efforts to change that picture are getting a helping hand.

Medical School Diversity
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38 MIN READ

Life on the Line: Young doctors come of age in a pandemic

In this episode of AMA Moving Medicine, author and New York Times reporter Emma Goldberg shares the experience of following six fresh med school graduates amid the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

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Medical Resident Wellness
Moving Medicine Podcast
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How medical education has gone from sore spot to bright spot

An important centenary caused the medical education community to take stock. What emerged from the AMA and innovative medical schools was transformative.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Women in medicine month webinar: Gender equity in medicine

View the webinar "Advancing gender equity through medical education, leadership development and medical practice," featuring Margot Savoy, MD.

Women Physicians
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Community health improvement projects at Indiana University School of Medicine

Bradley L. Allen, MD, PhD, discusses Indiana University School of Medicine's community-based projects to identify existing challenges in the context of the barriers and resources needed for community engagement.

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ChangeMedEd Initiative
Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium Showcase
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Women in medical schools: Dig into latest record-breaking numbers

Women are the majority among medical students in both DO- and MD-granting medical schools, but more work on physician gender equity remains.

Medical School Diversity
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Residency programs should trumpet no-tolerance approach on racism

During interviews with residency applicants, programs can make clear how they will foster diversity and back doctors facing microaggressions, racism.

Medical School Diversity