When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the world was caught off guard and left unprepared with how to handle this novel infection. As a result, it exacted a toll many would never have imagined possible.

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 ...

With more contagious coronavirus variants spreading across the U.S. and the supply of COVID-19 vaccines outpacing supply, further guidance has been released about mask-wearing. Maximizing the fit of ...

Practicing medicine today is so much more than the interaction between you and the patient sitting before you. Physicians must understand all parts of the health care system—from the emergency ...

There are a number of reasons for the projected physician shortage and a number of solutions to the problem have been identified—and they all have one thing in common: the need to get started right ...

Medicine can be a career that is both challenging and highly rewarding, but figuring out med school requirements and navigating the application process can be a challenge into itself. The AMA has the ...

The use of generative AI, like ChatGPT, in medicine has the potential to unburden physicians and help restore the patient-physician relationship. However, regulatory uncertainty and liability concerns ...

Prior authorization has in fact interfered with a patient’s job responsibilities, according to a majority of physicians (51%) who participated in a newly released AMA survey (PDF) of 1,004 physicians ...

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 ...

In case you lost track of the scale of the physician shortage in the U.S., check this out: According the Association of American Medical Colleges, it will swell to between 37,800 and 124,000 ...

You are likely familiar with the staggering physician shortage projections made by the experts at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The nation will come up short on physicians ...

An AMA-led coalition of 108 national, state and specialty medical societies, has been active in dozens of states this year, working to block legislation that would provide inappropriate expansion of ...