Higher doses of the medication for opioid-use disorder are sometimes needed. Payers must follow the FDA’s lead to help save lives. Responding to advocacy by the AMA and other medical organizations, ...

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 ...

$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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The move toward value-based care involves “a reimagining of the traditional definition of health care delivery” with the aim of supporting better outcomes at lower costs, according to a report from ...

Earn up to 9 CME credit by catching up with insights from the National Health Equity Grand Rounds Learning Series. The historical and contemporary root causes of health inequities are examined and ...

AMA member Chance Fisher, DO, successfully navigated the Couples Match with his physician wife last year. His advice: Make it clear where you won’t go. Creating a Match rank-order list requires ...