The Medical Director, JAMDA, and the Twenty-first Century

Clinical practice in nursing homes as a key for progress

“…Besides on-going education programs, AMDA provides a course leading to a certificate as a certified medical director (CMD). A recent study found that nursing homes whose medical director has a CMD provide a higher quality of care than nursing homes without a CMD as their medical director (14,15). AMDA produces a newsletter, "Caring for the Ages" and "The Journal of The American Medical Directors Association" (impact factor 3.467), the premier journal for scientific investigations of nursing homes.…”