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JAMA. 1998;280:578.

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At the AMA Annual Meeting in June, the Resident Physicians Section (AMA-RPS) discussed 17 resolutions and 2 reports concerning issues such as collective negotiations by residents, working conditions, residents' personal finances, and public health and safety. Collective negotiations by residents continues to be one of the RPS' highest priority issues. We will report on new developments in this area in a future column. The following are some of the other resolutions and reports adopted by the RPS at the Annual Meeting:

Student Debt and Post-1986 Tax Changes asks the AMA to make the student loan debt burden on physicians one of its top legislative priorities. The resolution calls on the AMA to work with other medical associations to introduce and support legislation that would allow taxpayers to fully deduct the interest on student loans from their income when preparing tax returns. All US taxpayers were able to do this before . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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