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 ...

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 ...

$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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Henry Ford Health and General Motors are both seeing the benefits of their direct-to-employer ConnectedCare health care plan. In 2018, Henry Ford Health announced an innovative partnership between the ...

For doctors, it’s five straight years of Medicare payment cuts. For Medicare Advantage plans, pay’s going up 4.33%. Congress must fix Medicare now. What’s the news: Congress wrapped up its business 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 ...

Reducing physician burnout involves many strategies, but the most common solution has been to adopt new technology that improves efficiency and eases doctors’ administrative burdens. Examples include ...