Congress should pass pending legislation to expand residency training slots, along with related proposals to address the projected physician shortage.

Awareness is on the rise for the significant shortcomings in nurse practitioners’ training in the United States at a time of aggressive efforts to expand their ability to practice without physician ...

CHICAGO — With consistent evidence showing a link between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and an increase in type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease, the American Medical Association ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began implementing the appropriate use criteria (AUC) program on Jan. 1, 2020 with an education and operations testing period during which physicians ...

Social media has come a long way since Friendster, permeating every facet of American life—and medicine is no exception. If the decade and a half since Facebook was launched seems like an eternity on ...

Although there is wide variation among specialties, all ambulatory care physicians spend a great deal of time working in their EHR—an average of 5.8 hours per eight hours of time scheduled for patient ...

What’s the news: A coalition of physician members of Congress introduced legislation that would reform the budget-neutrality policies applied to the Medicare physician payment schedule. The need for ...

One of the most important factors in determining whether physicians and other health professionals will experience symptoms of burnout is whether they feel valued. But until recently, no large-scale ...

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 American Medical Association (AMA) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Royal College) have renewed their continuing medical education (CME)/Continuing Professional ...

WASHINGTON — Today, several of the nation’s top medical societies, institutions, and boards announced a long-term partnership with the Human Diagnosis Project (“Human Dx”) to help address the gaps ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is slated to release its Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) final rule by Nov. 1. While the program does not affect Medicare ...