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3 keys for treating patients with intellectual disabilities

Patients with intellectual or developmental disabilities face a fragmented system of care. Here are some essential tips for medical students and doctors.

Population Care
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Listen and learn with 2021’s most-downloaded AMA podcasts

Original AMA podcasts help doctors and medical students stay updated on the go. Catch up with this year’s most popular episodes.

Publications & Newsletters
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How this medical student helps patients through her advocacy

Learn about the work that AMA Government Relations Advocacy Fellow Brittany Ikwuagwu is doing to help advance telehealth, combat inequities.

Medical Students
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How infection control can start in medical school

CDC’s Project Firstline puts infection-control knowledge in the hands of medical students, doctors and all health professionals. Learn more.

Medical Student Health
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Brittany Ikwuagwu on the power of medical student advocacy

AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion with Brittany Ikwuagwu on medical student advocacy.

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Medical Students
Moving Medicine Video Update
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Podcast series probes medical students’ questions on health IT

Learn with the AMA how to make sense of information technology’s expanding role in health care.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Advocacy is vital—but not only—part of LGBTQ+ identity in medicine

Pushing for change comes naturally to many LGBTQ+ medical students. But taking time out for learning, growth also is essential.

Medical School Diversity
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Why a patient’s housing qualifies as a health care treatment

Poor health is a primary outcome of experiencing homelessness and, as with so much else, the COVID-19 pandemic made a growing problem even worse.

Population Care
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What to do when federal student-loan forgiveness goes wrong

Physicians are among the borrowers discovering that federal student-loan forgiveness doesn’t always pan out. What are your options when that needed relief isn’t there?

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