Congress should pass pending legislation to expand residency training slots, along with related proposals to address the projected physician shortage.

Awareness is on the rise for the significant shortcomings in nurse practitioners’ training in the United States at a time of aggressive efforts to expand their ability to practice without physician ...

Despite advancements in gender equity in medicine, women physicians continue to fare more poorly on measures of well-being, often facing higher levels of burnout than their male counterparts. This ...

Although there is wide variation among specialties, all ambulatory care physicians spend a great deal of time working in their EHR—an average of 5.8 hours per eight hours of time scheduled for patient ...

When Susan Parisi, MD, first stepped into her role as chief wellness officer (CWO) at Geisinger in 2022, the country was just emerging from the deadliest phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that ...

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 membership offers unique access to savings and resources tailored to enrich the personal and professional lives of physicians, residents and medical students. While a majority of medical students ...

One of the most important factors in determining whether physicians and other health professionals will experience symptoms of burnout is whether they feel valued. But until recently, no large-scale ...

What’s the news: Medicare Advantage enrollees and their physicians in 2022 saw a larger share of their prior authorization requests denied when compared with previous years, according to a recently ...

Physicians are increasingly recognizing the importance of having a strong, unified voice in the evolving landscape of health care. And the AMA Integrated Physician Practice Section (AMA-IPPS) offers ...