====== Alberta Medical Association ======

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The **Alberta Medical Association (AMA)** is a Canadian professional membership organization with offices in [[canada:alberta:Edmonton]] and  [[canada:alberta:Calgary]].

===== COVID-19 =====

The AMA’s [[COVID-19 vaccines|COVID-19 vaccine]] information page was last updated on January 19, 2022, and contains assertions that are incomplete, misleading or outright false.((//COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs.// (2022, January 20). Alberta Medical Association. https://web.archive.org/web/20221024054143/https://www.albertadoctors.org/about/COVID-19/vaccine-positive-clinic-toolkit/covid-19-vaccine-FAQs ))

Further, AMA notes that doctors can bill for time spent trying to convince their “vaccine hesitant” patients to take the vaccine.((//Addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.// (2022, April 13). Alberta Medical Association. https://web.archive.org/web/20221024055256/https://www.albertadoctors.org/about/COVID-19/vaccine-positive-clinic-toolkit/addressing-vaccine-hesitancy )) The organization offers a number of tips, tricks and “tools” to do this. One such resource is the [[Vaccine Hesitancy Guide]], a website purpose-built by a number of official organizations such as the [[Alberta College of Family Physicians]] and [[Doctors Manitoba]].((//Credits and Collaborators.// Vaccine Hesitancy Guide. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://archive.ph/K5KUe)) However, another contributor is [[19 to Zero]], a “health communications” initiative funded by [[Alberta Health Services]], [[Alberta Innovates]], the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]], [[University of Calgary]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]].((//Who We Are.// 19 to Zero. Retrieved June 3, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210603131629/https://www.19tozero.ca/who-we-are))