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Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network

The Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network is a year-long program offered in collaboration with the Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH) and The Joint Commission.

AMA Center for Health Equity
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What doctors wish patients knew about vertigo

Vertigo is often thought of as a condition that a person just has to live with, but that isn’t the case. Three physicians share more about vertigo.

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Public Health
What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™
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Top questions to help master life as a fourth-year medical student

This AMA FAQ helps medical students navigate the fourth year of training by offering insight on some common questions.

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Preparing for Residency
Succeeding in Medical School
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How 17 health systems rose to meet the moment in 2023

Burnout. Inflation. Staff shortages. Medicare pay cuts. They all hit this year. Learn how these health systems responded to drive medicine’s future.

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Physician Health
Health System Spotlight
Laramie Wall, RN, an ECMO specialist with University of Iowa Health Care
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Why saving lives with ECMO is a team endeavor

University of Iowa Health Care successfully pushes the boundaries in its use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Learn more.

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Leadership
Health System Spotlight
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A new specter is haunting medicine: pandemic-informed burnout

It’s not 2020 anymore. Learn how the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ has shifted to mitigate burnout stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Physician Health
Health System Spotlight
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Unraveling the enigma of long COVID: What we know so far

Learn more with the AMA about long COVID, its common symptoms and the far-reaching impact it has on both public health and individual patients.

Public Health
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Find out how to identify and eliminate health care inequities

Discrimination leads to poor quality care and outcomes for historically disadvantaged communities. Embedding equity into harm-event reports helps end it.

Health Equity
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At Iowa’s only long COVID clinic, persistence pays off

Learn how physicians at the University of Iowa wrestle with clinical uncertainties, politicized care to help patients debilitated by their symptoms.

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Public Health
Health System Spotlight