Innovative Medicare program set to expire at year’s end, but the evidence backs extending it to help patients recover in the comfort of home.
Also known as peripheral vascular disease, this condition causes leg pain, cramping and numbness. Charles Leithead, MD, of Ochsner Health shares more.
The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about how one physician leader's work is reducing in-basket burden.
Understand the evolving field of health systems science and acquire the necessary tools and skills to successfully share this approach with medical students.
The goal of the Reimagining Residency grant program is to transform residency training to best address the workplace needs of our current and future health care system.
Virginia Skiba, MD, of Henry Ford Health, started her career in neurology but switched to sleep medicine after about a decade. Find out why.
M4s can gain insight on life in a physician residency program by asking current residents about scheduling, culture, work-life balance and more.
To perform at your best on the night shift, resident physicians should follow the evidence on what works. One tip: Drink your java at the right time.
Resident physicians must quickly absorb huge knowledge chunks—and care for patients. You won’t know it all, so here’s how to move forward.
Learn about the current state of competition in health insurance markets across the U.S. and review in-depth analysis on market concentration.
Discover the AMA's position on health insurance mergers and why the AMA believes fewer insurance carriers undermine physician practices and harm patient care.
ChangeMedEd® is a national conference that brings together leaders and innovators to accelerate change in medical education across the continuum. Learn more.
Build a framework for the implementation of AI in practice during this seven-month shared learning collaborative launching April 2025.
Download PDFs of the proceedings from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates.
Review the list of candidates to serve as AMA officers, on the Board of Trustees and councils.
Apply for a leadership position by submitting the required documentation by the deadline.
Download PDFs of reports on this topic from the Council on Medical Education presented during the AMA Interim and Annual Meetings.
Find the agenda PDF, documents and more for the 2024 APS Interim Meeting on Nov. 8 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida.
Find the agenda, documents and more information for the 2024 WPS Interim Meeting on Nov. 8 at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Find a calendar listing the upcoming meetings of the CPT Editorial Panel.
In the news: Half U.S. adults eligible for semaglitude, low vaccination rates for respiratory season, 1 in 10 has high cholesterol and more.
JAMA Network provides the insights that matter most to medical research and practice. Learn more about the JAMA Networks specialty journals on the AMA.
Vivien Thomas helped develop what’s long been known as the Blalock-Taussig shunt. More prominent recognition of his vital contribution is way overdue.
COVID-19 has killed over 1 million in the U.S., a figure that would be far higher without doctors’ heroism. Learn about the physician death toll.
In the news: FDA food safety shakeup, COVID PHE to end in May, policy drafted to ease blood donation restrictions for gay and bisexual men and more.
After drastically lower influenza activity in previous years, the flu is back with a vengeance. An infectious diseases physician shares more.
Authors can now deposit their accepted JAMA Network journal manuscripts in a public repository upon publication, regardless of funder. Learn more.
With health care workplace violence five times that of other sectors, Geisinger pulls out all the stops to protect doctors, nurses, staff and their patients.
Many labs moved away from race-adjusted kidney function, and most plan to do so. For one AMA member, the racist measure left an indelible personal mark.
The AMA’s sharper focus continues to reverberate across health care in new and make an impact in exciting ways.
Primary care-based transitional care management programs should consider the strategy that creates limited burden for staff, study says. Learn more.
