American Medical Association

Human-Centered Health Care – Designing Systems for Physician Well-Being

Dr Heather Farley, AMA Vice President of Professional Satisfaction, joins Dr Elizabeth Harry, chief well-being officer at Michigan Medicine, Carolyn Winslow, PhD, organizational research psychologist and well-being research & analytics lead at the Michigan Medicine Office of Well-Being, and Ken…

One Federally Qualified Health Center’s Journey to Joy in Medicine

Dr Mark Schildt, Chief Wellness Officer at El Rio Health, shares how they became the first Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) to earn Gold-level recognition from the American Medical Association’s Joy in MedicineÆ Program in 2024. He describes El Rio’s…

Why Self-Care is Not Enough in Solving Physician Burnout

In this AMA STEPS ForwardÆ podcast, Archana Shrestha, MD, MS, board-certified emergency physician, certified physician coach, and Chief Wellness Officer, shares her personal journey from burnout to becoming a leader in physician well-being. She discusses the unique challenges faced by…

What Practice Leaders Need to Know About Scaling Behavioral Health Integration

Behavioral health integration is essential to whole-person care, but how can you make it sustainable? In collaboration with the BHI Collaborative, this AMA STEPS ForwardÆ podcast features Kristin Kroeger, chief of advocacy policy and practice advancement at the American Psychiatric…

Ten Core Concepts for Ensuring Data Equity in Public Health

Importance  Public health decisions increasingly rely on large-scale data and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mobile health. However, many populations—including those in rural areas, with disabilities, experiencing homelessness, or living in low- and middle-income regions of the world—remain underrepresented…

How Value-Based Care Empowers Independent Practices

In this AMA STEPS ForwardÆ podcast, Jarrett Dodd, MD, a family medicine physician, chief medical officer of CVFP Medical Group, and Virginia market medical director for Privia Medical Group ó Mid-Atlantic, shares his experience with the evolution of his relatively…

AMA STEPSFORWARD – Pre-Visit Planning – Save Time and Improve Care

This toolkit explains how to implement team-based pre-visit planning to prepare for upcoming appointments, optimize the value of each appointment for both patients and physicians, and reduce the number of follow-up patient portal messages and phone calls.