Routine Screening Community of Practice: Workflows

Join the AMA Community of Practice for a discussion on incorporating algorithms and streamlining workflows to improve routine screening in your facility. 

Routine Screening Toolkit Community of Practice Workflows
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Suicide prevention guide to treat at-risk patients

Download a PDF of the AMA's "Suicide Prevention How-To Guide" that offers best practices on suicide prevention to enable primary care providers and teams to treat at-risk patients.

Behavioral Health
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What I wish I knew in medical school about standardized patients

PGY-1 Whitney Sambhariya, MD, PhD, tells students to embrace standardized patient encounters, and offers thoughts on what she would do differently. 

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Med School Life
Succeeding in Medical School
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Pearl of the Week: Celebrate successful quality improvement projects

Find resources on quality improvement (QI) projects and sharing the results.

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AMA STEPS Forward®
AMA STEPS Forward® Pearl of the Week
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How are patients really doing? One way to find out: Send a text

At Sanford Health, a low-tech, text-based patient-monitoring platform helps identify problems faster and speeds up intervention. Learn more.

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Digital
Health System Spotlight
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Health policy and economics: What medical students should know

An online course from the AMA offers a primer on the policy and financial sides of medicine that greatly affect patient outcomes.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Physicians as storytellers, with Megan Srinivas, MD, MPH

In this episode of the Moving Medicine podcast, in collaboration with PermanenteDocs Chat, learn about how physicians can use stories to build trust, improve patient care and more.

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Prevention & Wellness
Moving Medicine Podcast
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CDC: Physicians “the lynchpin” for boosting low vaccination rates

Uptake on COVID-19, flu and RSV vaccines remains far too low. Get tips and tools from the CDC to boost your patients’ vaccination rate.

Prevention & Wellness
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Behavioral health screening opens critical dialogue with patients

Screening can allow physicians to collect additional data, inform decisions on next steps—but it’s just one part of effective behavioral health care.

Behavioral Health
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: 10 tips for talking with patients

Most Americans haven’t yet received the updated COVID-19 vaccine introduced this fall. One key: Give your wholehearted recommendation. Learn more.

Prevention & Wellness