AMA Offers New Resources to Continue to Advance Health Care Equity

As part of its commitment to inform and educate physicians on topics important to health equity, the American Medical Association (AMA) now offers a series of continuing medical education (CME) and educational activities aimed at addressing the root causes of inequities, including racism and other structural determinants of health. The new content is featured on the AMA Ed Hub™ Health Equity Education Center, curated by the AMA’s Center for Health Equity. These resources will equip physicians with core health equity concepts needed to support them as they continue to take action and confront health injustice.

An innovative online platform that supports continuing medical education (CME) and other professional training, the AMA Ed Hub™ serves as a centralized source of high-quality, vetted educational content from the AMA and other trusted sources. Examples of available modules include content from the Prioritizing Equity CME video series—illuminating how COVID-19 and other determinants of health uniquely impact marginalized communities:

Additional new health equity-related modules are scheduled for release throughout the remainder of 2021 and beyond, covering key topic areas such as structural competency, public health, social sciences, critical race theory, and historical basis of disease. An overarching goal of the content is to help learners better understand how systems of power, structures, policies, and practices impact us all.