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American Medical Association


Contact Information

Executive Vice President
515 North State Street
Chicago, IL 60610

800-621-8335 (Voice - Toll-free), For Physicians Only
312-670-7827 (Voice), International Callers

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Abstract

The American Medical Association (AMA), founded in 1847, is the professional organization for physicians in the United States. The AMA disseminates information on issues important to physicians, patients, and the nation's health. The AMA is active in legislative issues and in setting standards for medical practice and education. Other activities include counseling on practice management problems, policy studies in a variety of areas, a medical library for physicians, publications, and meetings and conferences. The AMA library has a collection of over 60,000 volumes and 2,500 journals, and has direct computer access to the National Library of Medicine's database.

Publications

The AMA publishes books, directories to medical schools and related professional education programs, bibliographies, booklets on the medical profession, nine monthly medical specialty journals, and drug evaluations. Serial publications: Journal of the AMA (JAMA), weekly--articles on clinical medicine and research developments, available in several languages; American Medical News (newspaper), weekly.

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Notes

The library services are to send physicians references or article copies upon request. However, they don't answer specific questions over the phone.

Audit

Date Entered: 6/1/1997
Date Edited: 6/7/2004
Date Revised: 4/5/2004
Health Referral Number: HR1817
Accession Number: DP91A0510

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