These trainings review guideline-based recommendations for evaluation and treatment of children and adults with obesity. Included are practical tips for talking about weight with patients, assessing eating, activity, sleep and other related habits, screening for comorbidities, and engaging in shared…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about nuclear proliferation and planetary health. The featured guests are Joseph Hodgkin, MD, an attending hospitalist physician at Massachusetts General Hospital…
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.
Management guidelines for type 2 diabetes (T2D) recommend a complications-centric approach, whereby glucose-lowering agents are selected based on an individual’s comorbid conditions. Agents in the sodium glucose cotransporter inhibitor and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist classes have shown risk reduction in…
In this AMA STEPS Forward toolkit, learn methods for implementing team documentation to enhance efficiency, reduce redundancy, provide better care to patients, and ease physician burnout in your practice.
Dr Christine Sinsky, former vice president of Professional Satisfaction at the AMA, discusses her research on physician vacation habits and their impact on career satisfaction and retention, featuring insights from her recently published Mayo Clinic Proceedings article. She delves into…
Dr Cassie Littler, Medical Director of the Webb Pediatric Specialty Clinic at Denver Health (a Federally Qualified Health Center) discusses the role of state governments in promoting sustainable, integrated behavioral health care. She explores funding disparities, workforce shortages, and the…
Host Dr Marie Brown, internist and Physician Director of Practice Redesign at the AMA, joins Dr Diana Savitzky, pediatric emergency medicine physician and Chair of the Well-Being Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) to discuss the unique…
In health care settings, thorough investigations are vital for identifying design flaws and process errors. This microlesson focuses on root cause analysis (RCA), a type of investigation designed to identify the underlying causes of events. Through case studies and interactive…
Physicians, CRNAs, Registered Nurses, and other healthcare professionals must continually update their toolkit of knowledge to keep current in their specialty. This is especially true in the area of pain management. Pain is the most common symptom seen by health…
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