Where can I get free COVID tests? How soon can you test for COVID? Can you use an expired COVID test? Can you still have COVID symptoms after testing negative? AMA's Vice President of Science, ...

How many HBCU medical schools are there? Do hospitals pay for medical school? How bad is the doctor shortage? Is Xavier University getting a medical school? Leonardo Seoane, MD, founding dean of the ...

About half of all women 40 or older in the U.S. have dense breasts, a risk factor for breast cancer. But University of Iowa Health Care is beating the odds with a diagnostic tool that more efficiently ...

AMA policy defines health equity as “optimal health for all,” but in the AMA’s hometown of Chicago, inequities are evident in a 14-year life-expectancy gap between affluent neighborhoods and those on ...

There are numerous potential uses for augmented intelligence (AI), often called artificial intelligence, in clinical settings. They include informing clinical management; assisting with treatment, ...

Medical student-loan debt has become a major source of stress for America’s physicians and a significant force acting upon the physician pipeline. As the AMA has noted in policy addressing medical ...

Specialty: Internal and hospital medicine. Practice setting: Hospital. Employment type: Employed by Wenatchee Valley Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group in partnership with Confluence ...

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 ...

What do residency programs care about the most? What does AMA do for medical school? How important is advocacy in medical education? Why is health care advocacy important? Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, ...

Pediatricians, even those delivering emergency care, are not immune to the woes that prior authorization creates for patients and the physicians caring for them. On any given day across the nation, ...

For resident physicians regularly logging 60-hour weeks, time is a precious commodity—and the EHR can be a major drain on it. “Residents are pulled in a lot of different directions,” said Sydney ...

Medical school is a time to form good habits that will serve future physicians in good stead over a long and rewarding career in medicine. Some of these habits relate to personal matters that can have ...