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Birute Wise, MD

JAMA. 2000;283:1216.

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The 2 previous Resident Physician Forum columns summarized policies on medical education adopted by the American Medical Association House of Delegates (AMA-HOD) at its Interim Meeting in December 1999. This week's column focuses on newly adopted public health policies that were discussed by the AMA Resident and Fellow Section (RFS) and forwarded to the HOD in the past year. A complete summary of all HOD actions is available through the AMA Web page at http://www.ama-assn.org/meetings/public/interim99/reports/reports.htm.

Inflight Medical Emergencies, a report prepared by the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs (CSA), calls on US airlines to report details of inflight medical emergencies to the Federal Aviation Administration and presents several guidelines regarding medical equipment on commercial airlines, training for flight crews, and procedures for coordinating emergency medical care with hospitals and emergency personnel on the ground.

School Violence, a CSA report, reviews the literature on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Delegate, AMA-RFS
Albany, NY

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