Emphasis on education: AMA continues efforts to redirect Medicare PRO program

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Delegates at an interim meeting of the American Medical Assn (AMA) approved a report on the AMA's efforts to reform Medicare's Peer Review Organizations (PROs). Medicare's Fourth Scope of Work incorporates a number of AMA recommendations; for example, physician-reviewers must be licensed and practicing in the state where they review physicians. AMA delegates also favor encouraging the Health Care Financing Administration to continue releasing patient mortality and other data, which should be gathered under strict conditions and used as an educational tool to improve patient care.

Admin. of social & manpower programs, Standards, Management, Quality management, Medicare, United States. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health care rationing, Professional standards review organizations (Medicine)

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J-1 visas a target in groups' push to limit physician supply

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The American Medical Association and five other medical groups have released a consensus statement that calls for the elimination of J-1 visas that allow international medical graduates (IMG) to come to the US for residency training. Although the J-1's require the IMG's to leave following their training period, many IMG's obtain waivers allowing them to stay in the US as practitioners in medically underserved areas. The proliferation of IMG's has contributed to the oversupply of physicians in the US.

International Affairs, Entry Visas, Students & Teachers NEC, Usage, Supply and demand, Graduate students, Emigration and immigration, Student visas

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AMA, NIH want to raise physician 'literacy' on genetics

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The American Medical Assn (AMA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plan to work together to raise the level of physicians' knowledge about genetic medicine. Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the NIH's National Center for Human Genome Research, said that physicians must prepare themselves for patients' requests for or questions about genetic testing. The AMA plans to hold a major genetic medicine conference in fall 1997.

Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Professions Education, Training, Study and teaching, United States. National Institutes of Health, Genetic screening, Genetic testing, Speeches, lectures and essays, Collins, Francis S., Health occupations schools

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