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Though there are many ways to cope with the stress of medical training--and many ways to improve medical care and practice itself, very few of those are easy to implement, especially in the middle of residency. In this episode, Dr. Aliye Runyan talks about the importance of reflection in medicine--and the difficulty of keeping up reflective practice in the middle of intern year.

A decision in the Supreme Court's King v. Burwell case is expected very soon. In this episode of AMSA ad lib, Dr. David K. Jones of Boston University's School of Public Health gives us some background in anticipation of a major decision that could affect the future of the Affordable Care Act.

Previously on AMSA ad lib, we heard about the potential of medical students to drive the development and implementation of technology in and outside of the classroom. In this episode of AMSA ad lib, we'll hear about how students have been working those ideas into patients' lives and how students can be stay on top of the latest tools.

We may think of medicine as a highly tech-centric profession, but physicians can be highly resistant to change. Sometimes they need a little push from the outside--or a little push from physicians-in-training. We'll hear about the democratization of health care technology in this episode of AMSA ad lib.

In medical school, the real lessons come at the bedside, and the most important of those come not from residents or attending physicians, but from patients themselves.

At the unofficial beginning of summer, physicians-in-training tell us how they have--or have not--taken enough time for themselves during their training.