The AMA’s new $12 million precision education grant program represents the next step in our ongoing work to reimagine medical education and lifelong learning.

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about Match Day 2025 results.

The high court will decide the fate of ACA provision that is estimated to save more than 100,000 lives annually. Whether insurance companies will be required to continue covering the full cost of ...

It’s the worst fear come true for fourth-year medical students, international medical graduates (IMGs) and other residency applicants: not matching with any of their chosen ranked residency programs.

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 ...

What are top stressors for doctors? How common is physician burnout? What are the most stressful medical specialties? Is administrative burden in health care fixable? Christine Sinsky, MD, a general ...

What’s the news: With a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that rural residents often live sicker and die younger than do their urban counterparts, the AMA ...

Medical liability insurance premiums continue to march upward. Rates have been on the rise for sixth year in a row and almost every part of the country is seeing rates increase, with some pockets of ...

After physician residency applicants submit and certify their rank order list, there isn’t much else left to do but wait on Match Day. In a few weeks—as was the case in 2024—the overwhelming majority ...

Health insurers’ use of AI is bringing a new level of concern to the burdensome payer cost-control practice known as prior authorization. In a recently released AMA survey (PDF), 61% of physicians ...

Few moments in the professional life of a physician are as rewarding, memorable …and terrifying as Match Day, when you symbolically take your first step out of medical school and into a much larger ...