The AMA Specialty Guide simplifies medical students’ specialty selection process, highlights major specialties, details training information, and provides access to related association information. It ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in emergency medicine? Meet Sam Mossallam, MD, an emergency medicine physician and a featured doctor in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” ...

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about cancer in people under 50, syphilis and more.

The RVS Update Committee (RUC) is a volunteer group of 32 physicians and other health care professionals who advise Medicare on how to value a physician's work. Learn more about what the RUC does at ...

Despite mask mandates expiring in states that had the strictest laws and the majority of Americans less conscious about practicing physical distancing, about 4 million Medicare patients received ...

For more than 50 years, CPT has been the primary medical language used to communicate across health care, enabling seamless processing and advanced analytics for medical procedures and services. The ...

CMS opens 2025 MIPS exception/hardship application, now allows for exemption from cost category and administrative claims measures CMS opens 2025 MIPS exception/hardship application, now allows for ...

AMA welcomes effort to address decades of falling payment while detailing how proposed Medicaid changes will lead to coverage interruptions. The AMA strongly supports moves in Congress that would ...

A bipartisan bill backed by the AMA would help Medicare patients avoid unnecessary care delays by requiring appropriate specialty physicians to review. What’s the news: Only specialty board-certified ...

Student-loan interest adds up—quickly. According to the U.S. Department of Education, a $10,000 loan at 6.8% interest accrues about $1.86 in interest each day. With resident physicians graduating ...

The goal is to foster learning opportunities across the Northern California health system to create a “lifelong home” for physicians and other health professionals. As the threat of a doctor shortage ...

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 ...