Exclusive AMA data shows that while job stress is easing and satisfaction is rising, each physician specialty requires targeted support. After years of rising, physician burnout rates are showing ...

The CPT “vaccine early release schedule” is now known as the “immunization early release” schedule and includes vaccines/toxoids, immune globulins and serum or recombinant products. Two new seasonal ...

Blindness, encephalitis, diarrhea and associated dehydration, ear infections, and severe pneumonia are known complications. Before vaccination, measles was responsible for 48,000 hospitalizations ...

Despite mask mandates expiring in states that had the strictest laws and the majority of Americans less conscious about practicing physical distancing, about 4 million Medicare patients received ...

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 ...

Primary care physicians typically spend 16 minutes of each vacation day on the EHR. Health systems are trying to reverse that trend. A physician’s most intrusive, unwelcome and demanding travel ...

The AMA Specialty Guide simplifies medical students’ specialty selection process, highlights major specialties, details training information, and provides access to related association information. It ...

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

Is AI good for health care? How are doctors using artificial intelligence? What is AI used for in medicine? What percentage of doctors are using AI? Do doctors trust AI? Our guest Margaret Lozovatsky, ...

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 ...

A bipartisan bill backed by the AMA would help Medicare patients avoid unnecessary care delays by requiring appropriate specialty physicians to review. What’s the news: Only specialty board-certified ...

The latest research confirms that physicians and health systems can make a measurable, lasting, lifesaving difference by following an evidence-based approach called the Zero Suicide model. Of the six ...