The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the pressing issues facing physicians with AMA President Bruce Scott, MD.

Welcome, members of the 119th Congress. You have a tremendous opportunity to bring meaningful and long-overdue changes to health care that will better support physicians, remove barriers for patients, ...

How to be healthy in the new year: What is lifestyle medicine? Does lifestyle medicine work? What are the benefits of lifestyle medicine? How to become a lifestyle medicine doctor? Our guest and chair ...

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 ...

Significant coding and documentation reforms for outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services took effect in 2021. And when physicians wondered what impact those reforms would have on their ...

Diversifying the financial resources of your private practice and owning the medical technology you use may seem like a good idea, but a federal law that was designed to protect consumers from ...

How can a physician fellowship applicant catch a program director’s eye? The answer extends well beyond your CV. Rachael Nicholson, MD, spent 13 years as the program director for the vascular surgery ...

If you are pondering a major change in geography for physician residency, consider this expert advice on how to balance location preferences and future goals. The residency-application process is all ...

As health system leaders create programs to help physicians struggling with burnout, it turns out that there’s an additional step: Making them feel safe to access the medical care they need to stay ...

The AMA has convened diverse experts with deep expertise across a broad range of medical topics to serve as the AMA Guides® Editorial Panel (the Guides Panel). This group includes physicians, allied ...

Congress failed to stop a fifth consecutive Medicare pay cut, but on telehealth, equity and more, CMS heeds physicians’ advice. That failure extends “a devastating decline in Medicare physician ...