While SARS-CoV-2 infections continue to influence trends in U.S. death rates, COVID-19 is no longer among the nation’s top three killers. The tragic trio are heart disease, cancer and unintentional ...

Physician onboarding isn’t a formality for health systems. It needs to address new employees’ deep-seated concerns about how they will live their professional lives on a daily basis. To wit: A report ...

Training to become a physician is a marathon. The opening months of medical school, however, can often feel like a sprint. The volume of information that medical students are expected to retain and ...

This column is part of a series of firsthand physician accounts that detail how AMA Health System Program members are moving medicine to support patient health and the medical profession. Ten years ...

Resident physicians know that overnight shifts are inherently exhausting. Research shows that it’s the transition from day shifts to nights that truly drains performance. When residents don’t prepare ...

In the wake of a divisive election season, there is one important sign of bipartisanship prevalent on Capitol Hill. A majority of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives—135 Democrats and 86 ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in sleep medicine? Meet Virginia Skiba, MD, a sleep medicine physician and a featured doctor in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” Specialty ...

The Change Healthcare cyberattack earlier this year exposed the risks of IT concentration and centralization within the computer networks that the U.S. health system so heavily depends on It also ...

Following the recent election cycle, I have assured many of you—our physician colleagues—that the AMA will remain true to our mission. Looking ahead, news cycles and distractions will come and go, but ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

“Workplace violence is a recognized hazard in the health care industry,” declares the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It defines the problem as “any act or threat of physical ...