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AMA Update 619: Innovative residency orientation program teaches local history to improve culturally competent care

14 de julio de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:14:39 0 Comments

What happens in residency orientation? How long does it take to onboard a resident? What’s resident onboarding like? Why is cultural competence important in health care? Our guest today is Jimmy Stewart, MD, associate dean for graduate medical education and designated institutional officer at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Stewart will talk about an innovative orientation program for new residents that’s designed to improve culturally competent care. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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🛣️ Access The AMA Road to Residency Guide here: https://ama-assn.co/ResidencyGuide

🩻 AMA Resident and Fellow Section (RFS): https://ama-assn.co/RFS

🌟 For leadership programs for medical residents and fellows, visit: https://ama-assn.co/Resident_leadership

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

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▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 608: National physician burnout study: Latest statistics on burnout in health care and doctor well-being

13 de junio de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:07:04 0 Comments

Burnout in medicine: When was burnout at its peak for doctors? Why are doctors so burnt out? What causes burnout in health care? Is there a National Burnout Study? Our guest is Michael Tutty, PhD, group vice president of Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability at the American Medical Association. AMA CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🎥 Watch #AMAUpdate for healthcare news for physicians, residents and medical students: https://ama-assn.co/AMAUpdate

💜 Not a physician? Join the Patients Action Network: https://ama-assn.co/PatientsActionNetwork

📉 Find more physician burnout statistics from the National Physician Burnout Survey: https://ama-assn.co/Burnout_NationalPhysicianSurvey

🧰 Wondering how to assess and measure physician burnout? Get AMA’s burnout assessment tool PDF and more, here: https://ama-assn.co/Wellbeing_Program

📋 Access the AMA Organizational Biopsy® PDF: https://ama-assn.co/OrganizationalBiopsy

📊 For more on AMA practice transformation, professional satisfaction and physician burnout research (physician burnout report): https://ama-assn.co/PracticeTransformation_Burnout

📰 Find more physician wellness articles here: https://ama-assn.co/Wellbeing_resources

🖥️ AMA STEPS Forward® burnout (CME physician burnout): https://ama-assn.co/STEPSForward_Burnout

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians
 

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AMA Update 605: How docs help develop medical technology that’s speeding up electronic prior authorization

30 de mayo de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:18:20 0 Comments

How do you know if something needs prior authorization? Why does prior authorization take so long? What is electronic prior authorization? Discussing how to speed up prior authorization process using informatics in health care, HL7 and FHIR, computerized physician order entry, and more with Viet Nguyen, MD, chief standards implementation officer for HL7 International. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🎥 Watch #AMAUpdate for healthcare news for physicians, residents and medical students: https://ama-assn.co/AMAUpdate

💜 Not a physician? Join the Patients Action Network: https://ama-assn.co/PatientsActionNetwork

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 600: Health IT: Helping startup companies in health care, AI in medicine and the future of digital health

16 de mayo de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:14:37 0 Comments

What can you do with an MD? Are there non-clinical careers for doctors? What is the next big thing in health care technology? What do investors look for in healthcare startups?

Discussing health care startups and innovative ideas for health care businesses with Chris Stock, MD, a managing director for Health2047. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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💪 Learn how the AMA is fighting to make technology work for physicians and access AMA digital health policy: https://ama-assn.co/DigitalHealth

💻 For more on healthcare startup grants and what investors look for in a startup, visit: https://ama-assn.co/Health2047

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 585: What is depression? Depression diagnosis, seasonal affective disorder and how to deal with SAD

11 de abril de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:10:57 0 Comments

What does depression look like? What types of depression are there? What causes SAD? What are SSRIs? What are the signs that someone is depressed? What is seasonal affective disorder? Our guest Andrea DeSimone, DO, chair of the psychiatry department at Bayhealth Medical Center, discusses clinical depression, major depressive disorder, MDD, and seasonal depression symptoms. Dr. DeSimone shares the latest in mental health research and treatment for seasonal affective disorder (SAD depression). American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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🧠 For more on signs and symptoms of seasonal affective disorder, check out: https://ama-assn.co/SeasonalAffectiveDisorder

🏥 Learn more about the AMA Health System Program here: https://ama-assn.co/HealthSystems

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 559: Tuberculosis in Kansas, ebola virus update, and rising egg prices due to bird flu outbreak 2025

5 de febrero de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:11:58 0 Comments

What is going on with eggs in the U.S.? Is there a new strain of bird flu? How do you treat TB? How is TB transmitted? What is the most recent Ebola outbreak? Today’s episode covers tuberculosis cases in the U.S., the outbreak of TB in Kansas City, and the emergence of a new bird flu strain H5N9. AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, also breaks down the ongoing Ebola situation in Uganda. She highlights the implications of these health threats, outlines the importance of infectious disease monitoring, virus tracking, and timely public health response strategies. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🗺️ CDC current avian flu map: https://ama-assn.co/avianflu_map

💻 For bird flu news visit Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC H5N1 Bird Flu Current Situation Summary (CDC H5N1 technical report): https://ama-assn.co/CDC_H5N1

🚨 If the CDC issues new health warning, get the latest CDC health alert 2024 via the Health Alert Network (HAN CDC website): https://ama-assn.co/CDC_HAN

✈️ Check the latest CDC travel advisory: https://ama-assn.co/CDC_TravelAdvisory

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AMA Update 553: Ozempic study on weight loss drugs side effects, FDA red dye 3 ban, flu cases and norovirus vaccine

22 de enero de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:13:07 0 Comments

What does Ozempic do? What are the side effects of Ozempic? Is bird flu still around? Is there a vaccine for norovirus? Is red dye 3 banned in US? AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, discusses high rates of COVID, RSV, and seasonal flu, as well as the recent CDC alert regarding hospital testing and treatments for bird flu. Also covering the FDA ban on red dye no. 3, plus new research on how GLP-1 drugs could lower the risk of 42 health conditions like Alzheimer’s, dementia, substance abuse disorders and more. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🗺️ CDC current avian flu map: https://ama-assn.co/avianflu_map

💻 For bird flu news visit Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC H5N1 Bird Flu Current Situation Summary (CDC H5N1 technical report): https://ama-assn.co/CDC_H5N1

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AMA Update 552: Why lifestyle medicine is growing so fast and the benefits of a lifestyle medicine certification

17 de enero de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:12:45 0 Comments

How to be healthy in the new year: What is lifestyle medicine? Does lifestyle medicine work? What are the benefits of lifestyle medicine? How to become a lifestyle medicine doctor? Our guest and chair of the American Medical Association Board of Trustees Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, MBA, answers the question: What is lifestyle medicine and how it can benefit you? AMA CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 546: How the AMA fought for docs in 2024 to fix prior authorization, reduce physician burnout and more

23 de diciembre de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:04:01 0 Comments

In the final AMA Update episode of 2024, American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger looks back on another year of stories about the work that physicians are doing across the country and how the AMA is fighting to support them.

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 519: More cases of bird flu in California, new avian flu testing, Marburg virus outbreak update

9 de octubre de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:12:42 0 Comments

How is bird flu detected in humans? Is there a Marburg virus outbreak? How does Marburg virus spread? What are the vaccines required for kindergarten? AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, discusses new bird flu testing, latest bird flu cases in the US, vaccines for children in kindergarten, XEC COVID variant and kp311 cases, plus Marburg virus in Rwanda. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🗺️ CDC current avian flu map: https://ama-assn.co/avianflu_map

💻 For bird flu news visit Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC H5N1 Bird Flu Current Situation Summary (CDC H5N1 technical report): https://ama-assn.co/CDC_H5N1

🚨 If the CDC issues new health warning, get the latest CDC health alert 2024 via the Health Alert Network (HAN CDC website): https://ama-assn.co/CDC_HAN

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