The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about physician onboarding.

Mary Pan, MD, shares how the Washington Permanente Medical Group is working to reduce its burnout rate among women, and how augmented intelligence can help. Mary Pan, MD, remembers what it was like ...

Another year, another cut to the Medicare payments needed to keep physicians and their practices going. Congress must turn toward long-term reform. “The continuing resolution utterly fails to address ...

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 ...

Why is value-based care important? What are value-based care payment models? How is value-based care measured? What is an example of value-based care? Our guest is Narayana Murali, MD, chief medical ...

Picture a pediatrician whose days were once filled with the joy of helping children who is now struggling to find meaning in medicine. Imagine an emergency physician, the epitome of calm under ...

Payers erect roadblocks allegedly designed to save money for the health system and protect their resources, but when patients and their doctors face care delays—or when they give up and abandon ...

Medical school is the first step in a career in medicine. It’s also a key stage in a journey toward determining one’s financial picture for the next decade-plus. How much you will pay in medical ...

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 ...

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels continue to better understand the unnecessary harm prior authorization causes for patients and the time it sucks away from physicians and their staff ...

Education matters, especially when it comes to health care. Patients know it too—more than 90% say a physician’s years of education and training are vital to optimal patient care. Yet there are ...

A physician’s employment contract—especially that first contract—can set the tone for the career yet to come, so it’s important for employed physicians to ensure they understand what they are signing ...