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Is Advance Care Planning Required at Every Medicare Patient Visit?

Advance care planning is a billable, face-to-face service between a physician (or other provider) and a patient and/or surrogate to discuss and make known the patient’s health care wishes in case the patient becomes unable to make health care decisions…

Is Time Documentation Required for Medicare Depression Screenings?

In October 2011, CMS began covering annual depression screening for Medicare beneficiaries in the primary care setting when performed by clinical staff who can advise the physician of screening results and who can help facilitate and coordinate referrals for mental…

Microplastics Infiltrate Our Bodies. How Can Physicians Help?

When plastic breaks down into microplastic particles, they pollute the environment and numerous studies have found they infiltrate multiple organ systems and tissues. In fact, a 2022 study in Environmental International estimated that microplastics were circulating in the blood of…

Microplastics Infiltrate Our Bodies. How Can Physicians Help?

When plastic breaks down into microplastic particles, they pollute the environment and numerous studies have found they infiltrate multiple organ systems and tissues. In fact, a 2022 study in Environmental International estimated that microplastics were circulating in the blood of…

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…

Ethics Talk: Lessons From Disability Ethics About Ageism

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about key ideas from disability ethics that can inform our thinking about age-related biases and how medicalizing aging affects our health,…

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…