Get the new Code of Medical Ethics commemorative edition
The AMA ’sCode of Medical Ethics is regularly cited as the medical profession ' s authoritative voice in legal opinions and in scholarly journals. The updatedCodeis the culmination of an eight-year project to modernize ethical guidance for relevance, clarity and consistency, and it represents the first comprehensive review of theCode in more than half a century. To mark this important chapter in the history of theCode, the AMA is offering a special commemorative edition.
This collectible features:
A black, bonded leather cover with silver embossing
Full-color end sheets
Decorative black-and-white headband
Arch...
Source: AMA Wire - September 30, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
Test your USMLE Step 2 readiness with this most-missed question
The United States Medical Licensing Examination ® (USMLE®) Step 2 is a major measure of any medical student’s clinical knowledge, soAMA Wire® is providing frequent expert insights to help you prepare for it. Take a few minutes here to work through another of the most-missed USMLE Step 2 test prep questions and view an expert video explanation of the answer from Kaplan Medical.
Once you ’ve got this question under your belt, be sure to test your knowledge with other posts in this series.
Ready. Set. Go.This month ’s question that stumped most students:
A 54-year-old woman comes to the physician for a routine he...
Source: AMA Wire - September 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
New tool for recognizing physician distress, preventing suicide
Physicians die by their own hands at much higher rates than do members of the general public —40 percent higher in males and 130 percent higher in females—so recognizing and responding to physician distress is crucial. Physicians themselves are uniquely positioned to do this for their colleagues, but many are uncomfortable intervening and unsure what steps to take if they do get involve d. A new resource offers guidance in successfully identifying distressed colleagues and helping them get the care they need.
Risk factors for physicians may be similar to those for the general public, but many physicians feel their...
Source: AMA Wire - September 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
5 tips to start and grow a happy family during residency
Residency often coincides with the time when many young physicians would like to start families, but undertaking these two life events simultaneously can be daunting. A third-year family medicine resident with three young children recently shared her tips for making it work with minimal stress.
When Chelsea Slade, MD, and her husband began talking about having kids, she was in medical school and he was in law school, and they decided it would be best to hold off on starting a family until after her residency. But as his third year of law school progressed with no job offer, their plans shifted. He agreed to stay home so t...
Source: AMA Wire - September 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
Self-regulation key to the future of health care tech
There are tools that work and there are tools that do not, but it ’s important for the health care industry to decide what is required of these technologies for the future. And that means patients, physicians and developers working together. AMA Chief Executive Officer James L. Madara, MD, sat down with Matthew Holt of Health 2.0 at the annual conference yesterd ay to discuss the future of health care technology.
On center-stage during the first day of the Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Matthew Holt, co-chairman of Health 2.0, asked Dr. Madara about his past comments on digital health tools and what needs...
Source: AMA Wire - September 27, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Overcoming gender obstacles in medicine
A lack of women in leadership positions, a gender pay gap, stereotypes and self-confidence all play a role in gender inequality in medicine. At the inaugural Women in Medicine Symposium, Vineet Arora, MD, detailed these issues and discussed how women could be more empowered in the medical field.
Dr. Arora has spent most of her career in academic medicine and is currently assistant dean for Scholarship and Discovery at the University of Chicago. Because there is good data, she said, academic medicine is a great lens to track women in medicine. The data and results of many studies prove there are specific obstacles that wom...
Source: AMA Wire - September 27, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Obesity rates fall in 4 states, but overall rates remain high
Adult obesity rates decreased in four states, according to a new annual study. But with obesity increasing nationwide, there ’s still a lot of work to be done so that millions of Americans aren’t at an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease.A few signs of change
There ’s a glimmer of good news on the adult obesity front this year: Minnesota, Montana, New York and Ohio saw rates decline between 2014 and 2015, according to the newly release study,The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America.
With the exception of a decline in Washington, D.C., in 2010, this is the first time in the past decade ...
Source: AMA Wire - September 27, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
Test your readiness with this month ’s USMLE Step 1 stumper
The United States Medical Licensing Examination ® (USMLE®) Step 1 exam is often the first major test of a medical student’s knowledge, and some of its questions are missed by all but a select few highly prepared test takers. Check out this month’s question that Kaplan Medical says stumps most students, and view an expert video explanation o f the answer.
Welcome to this month ’s installment of the AMA Wire® series, Tutor talk: Tips from Kaplan Medical on the most missed USMLE test prep questions from Kaplan’s Qbank: Step 1. Each month,AMA Wire ®reveals questions many physicians-in-training miss on the USMLE a...
Source: AMA Wire - September 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
Physicians demand more of digital tools, yet remain optimistic
Physician enthusiasm about digital health innovation requires a few “must haves” to turn that enthusiasm into adoption of digital tools in clinical practice. A new AMA survey shows that physician optimism toward digital health products is present across all ages, but the tools must be beneficial to clinical practice and not a burden. One way to make sure the too ls are effective in practice is to get physicians involved in their development.
The AMAdigital health survey asked 1,300 physicians about their motivations and requirements for integrating digital health tools in their practices. Conducted by Kantar TNS, one ...
Source: AMA Wire - September 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Rethinking how race contributes to a patient ’s health
Physicians have been trained to think about race as a demographic factor that may influence a patient ’s health, but understanding how race influences health is evolving. One medical school is attempting to expand the way future physicians think about race in the exam room.
Jennifer Tsai and Bryan Leyva, medical students at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, shared how students at their school succeeded in changing how race is addressed in their curriculum in a presentation titled, “Moving past diversity toward decolonization: Bringing critical race theory to the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown Un...
Source: AMA Wire - September 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
How physician input is changing MOC
With Maintenance of Certification (MOC) in its second decade, many changes are underway. Through conversations between physicians and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), these changes are intended to make the MOC process, including the Part III examination, more relevant to clinical practice and less burdensome.
In recent years, the AMA ’s Council on Medical Education (Council) has developed a constructive working relationship with the ABMS on these issues. Council work has been effective in contributing to moving the Boards to consider alternatives to high-stakes testing and other changes in MOC to mak...
Source: AMA Wire - September 23, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
New tool identifies short-term volunteer and paid opportunities
A new interactive tool provides physicians interested in volunteering or working outside of their normal practice settings with short-term opportunities in the field of medicine. ThePhysician Opportunities Portal, launched today by the AMA, enables physicians to quickly and easily identify opportunities to add stability and longevity to their careers and increase joy in practice by giving back.
The Portal features many opportunities, including:
Consulting
Legal expert
Locum tenens
Emergency and safety
Health and wellness
AMA opportunities
Users may search by location, start date and even time of day. The Port...
Source: AMA Wire - September 22, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
Redesigning the Gas Lounge: How residents changed their space
Anesthesiology residents at Stanford used to spend their few precious moments of relaxation in a lounge that looked like a dirty apartment. With a low-budget, resident-led plan, they found the funds and redesigned the anesthesiology lounge —known as the “Gas Lounge”—into a space that is clean, calm and where they would actually want to eat and sleep. The Gas Lounge " before "
Physicians spend a large portion of their lives at work and most of the time they get to actually relax is in the on-call room. Adam Was, MD, a fifth-year resident in the combined pediatrics and anesthesia program at Stanford, spoke this w...
Source: AMA Wire - September 22, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
New analyses support blocking pending insurance mergers
Two analyses released today demonstrate further that the proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana health insurance mergers would exceed federal antitrust guidelines designed to preserve competition and jeopardize patient access to affordable coverage and care.
The analyses are based on data from the 15th edition ofCompetition in Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets, published today by the AMA, which continues to find the majority of commercial health insurance markets in the United States are highly concentrated.
High market concentration can lead to enhanced market power by health insurers on physicians and pa...
Source: AMA Wire - September 21, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
When good work is acknowledged, we aspire to work harder
An AMA Viewpoints post by AMA President Andrew W. Gurman, MD
In a time of unprecedented change in medicine, the AMA has evolved to become a more nimble, responsive and forward-thinking organization that better prepares physicians for the unique challenges of a rapidly evolving health care system, according to an independent study being released this week. Such change is seldom quick or easy, and far too often we fail to pause and reflect on just how far this organization has come.
The international public affairs and communications firm, APCO Worldwide, this week ranked the AMA first in its annualTradeMarks survey of the...
Source: AMA Wire - September 20, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
