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How curbing climate change can help stop the next viral pandemic

Seventy-five percent of emerging infectious diseases start out in animals, and climate change is worsening the trend. Learn more with the AMA.

Public Health
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Why future doctors must learn Holocaust’s awful lessons

German physicians traveled a horrendous path from healing to killing. Medical schools can teach this tragic history to better shape tomorrow’s physicians.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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To advance equity, examine critical pedagogies in medical education

Learn with the AMA how critical pedagogies in health professions education can equip and motivate learners to advance health equity.

Ethics
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2 MIN READ

How to respond when “turfing” displaces patient welfare

The problematic nature of poorly executed patient placement decisions is long overdue for change. Learn how to start the conversation.   

Ethics
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2 MIN READ

Is your patient lonely? There may be a prescription for that

The surgeon general says loneliness can be as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Learn how “social prescriptions” could help.

Ethics
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3 MIN READ

How geriatric psychiatry can provide care that older adults deserve

Pervasive ageism and workforce shortage concerns raise contemporary clinical and ethical questions on mental health care of older adults. Learn more.

Ethics
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2 MIN READ

Taking a palliative care approach to psychiatry’s toughest cases

Patients with treatment-resistant depression or persistent suicidality pose major challenges. Find out how palliative psychiatry could help.

Ethics
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AMA fact check on recent articles about uterus transplants

Multiple media outlets have recently inaccurately published stories with inflammatory headlines about an AMA Journal of Ethics article.

Press Releases
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Robots are a norm in surgery. What happens when AI enters the OR?

As robotic-assisted surgery evolves to potentially include AI, ethical conversations on decision-making and clinical training emerge. Learn more.

Ethics