American Medical Association
The American Medical Association ( AMA ) is the largest professional body of doctors and medical students in the United States , based in Chicago . The organization was founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897. There are approximately 244,000 members.
The association publishes the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). AMA also publishes nine medical journals and a weekly medical newspaper, American Medical News . The editors of the JAMA have also written the AMA Manual of Style for authors of scientific texts. a. Contains widely used citation guidelines .
It presents the AMA Scientific Achievement Award .
Through the Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), on which a representative of each of the professional societies under the umbrella of the AMA sits, the AMA participates in the determination of the remuneration for medical services in the United States. Formally, the RUC only determines the relative valuation of individual medical services within Medicare and Medicaid ; in practice, the data is also largely taken over by private health insurance companies.
The current president is James L. Madara.
literature
- James G. Burrow: AMA. Voice of American Medicine . Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Mass. 1963.
- Frank Campion: The AMA and US Health Policy Since 1940 . Chicago Review Press, Chicago, Ill. 1984, ISBN 0-91409-157-3 .
- Morris Fishbein: History of the American Medical Association, 1847-1947 . Kraus Reprint, New York 1969 (unaltered reprint of the Philadelphia edition 1947).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ AMA - Our History ( Memento from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Haley Sweetland Edwards: Special Deal , Washington Magazine, July / August 2013
- ↑ https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/senior-management