At the national level, the overall rate of physician burnout—comprised of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scores—improved during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic (fall 2020) compared ...

In today’s COVID-19 Update, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine ...

While physician burnout saw a decline prior to COVID-19’s emergence, it is still a major professional problem that demands systemic responses. As physicians navigate the ongoing pandemic, they also ...

There are a number of reasons for the projected physician shortage and a number of solutions to the problem have been identified—and they all have one thing in common: the need to get started right ...

Experts predict that the U.S. will be short between 17,800 and 48,000 primary care physicians by 2034. For many, those numbers may seem too abstract to fathom or the year too far away to ponder given ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has added new layers of stress and anxiety to American physicians’ already challenged working lives. Yet amid the new problems of securing sufficient personal protective ...

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. “Many authorities agree that by ...

This article is part of a series of COVID-19 resources on health equity. Marginalized and minoritized patients have and will suffer disproportionally during the COVID-19 crisis due to the inequities ...

In today’s episode of Moving Medicine, a discussion with Pieter Cohen, MD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and an internist at Cambridge Health Alliance, about what physicians need to ...

When COVID-19 forced his uncle to go on a ventilator, a Wisconsin man who was losing hope began doing research on the internet. He came across ivermectin. The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms. While most people recover in a week or two, RSV can be serious, especially for infants, ...

It isn’t just physicians who are experiencing burnout. All health professionals have experienced a rise in burnout throughout the pandemic, which has contributed to workforce turnover. This was ...