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Liana Puscas, MD

JAMA. 1999;282:1196.

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At its Annual Meeting in June, the American Medical Association-House of Delegates (AMA-HOD) discussed many resolutions and reports of interest to resident and fellow physicians. Several of the actions HOD adopted regarding residency education and supervision are presented below. A summary of HOD's actions regarding graduate medical education funding will appear in next week's Resident Forum. A complete summary of all HOD actions is available through the AMA Web page at: http://www.ama-assn.org/meetings/public/annual99/reports/reports.htm.

Physician Workforce Planning and Physician Retraining asked the AMA to include physician retraining in its discussions on physician workforce planning and to conduct a survey of residency programs to identify the number of residents who are retraining in a second specialty.

Clinical Supervision of Resident Physicians by Nonphysicians recommended that AMA policy state that responsibility for the treatment of each patient and the education of resident and fellow physicians lies with the attending physician . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Delegate, AMA-Resident
and Fellow Section
Los Angeles, Calif

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