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 ...

The training and education given to nurse practitioners does not adequately prepare them for independent practice, according to two physicians—one who used to be a nurse practitioner (NP) and another ...

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 ...

Qualified patients can now get a lifetime guarantee that any new costs related to their shoulder-replacement surgery will be completely covered. One done, many more to come. Orthopaedic surgeons at ...

New survey shows a link: when physicians lack control over their work environments, they are more likely to have burnout, quit or cut back on hours. Over the last several decades, the amount of ...

What is the role of research in medical education? How important is research for residency? What are good research topics for medical students? Our guest, Frederick Chen, MD, MPH, chief health and ...

$12 million, four-year AMA grant program will advance precision education to get the right training to the right learner at the right time. Precision education is no longer an abstract concept in ...

Chances are that you are fielding far more emails from patients than you did before the COVID-19 public health emergency. In-basket patient messages rose by 57% from 2019 to 2020, according to ...

Editor’s note: On the opening day of its April meeting in Paris, the World Medical Association issued a strongly worded emergency resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its bombing of ...

A large majority of adults consume caffeine daily and depend on a steaming cup of coffee to get their day started on the right foot. But does drinking that daily cup of joe offer health benefits for ...

As mid-March government-funding deadline looms, physicians rally on Capitol Hill to send a clear message: Fix Medicare now. Hundreds of physicians in their white coats rallied in force in the oldest ...