JAMA subscription cost: $238 a year, or subscribe to JAMA through AMA membership

The store lists three things: online access to JAMA articles published after 1998, the journal's multimedia (author interviews, videos and podcasts), and complete access to the CME activities in JN Learning. The journal content itself covers original research, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statements, the JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis series and the Clinical Review and Education section.

The CME piece is the part buyers miss. JN Learning sold on its own lists at $399.99, and the JAMA subscription includes access to its CME activities for $238. If your main reason for paying is AMA PRA Category 1 credit, that line matters more than the journal.

What it does not include is print. The individual listing for JAMA reads "online only available", so anyone searching for a JAMA print subscription as an individual will find the route runs through AMA membership.

Join the AMA at member.ama-assn.org and pick the dues category for your career stage. Dues-paying members are eligible for the print copy of JAMA, and AMA allocates $50 of dues to it. All members, including students, get online access to the JAMA Network with the same sign-in used on jamanetwork.com.

Dues can be paid once a year or in monthly installments with automatic renewal. Renewal notices go out around November 1, and automatic renewal is cancelled in writing by December 1. If you change your mind, AMA refunds dues in full within 30 days of activation, prorates after that, and issues no refund for the current year after September 30.

Residents get the best deal on the table: $45 for one year or $160 for four. Medical students pay $20 for one year or $68 for all four years of school. Neither group has a student or trainee rate on the JAMA subscription itself.

NEJM is the cheaper standalone journal: $189 a year online or $219 with print, with trainee rates of $89 and $119, and a monthly option at $17.99. JAMA is $238 online with no trainee rate, but it comes inside AMA membership, which NEJM does not. For a resident, AMA membership at $45 plus the NEJM trainee rate at $89 buys both journals for $134, less than JAMA alone. The full NEJM rate card is on our NEJM subscription cost page.

If what you want is a filter on the literature rather than a full journal, NEJM Clinician Journal Watch at $99 a year is covered in our Journal Watch subscription cost guide, and independent drug evaluations with CME at $179 are on the Medical Letter subscription cost page.

A professional journal is usually a deductible business expense for a self-employed physician. AMA dues are a different case: AMA estimates that 80% of dues is allocable to lobbying and is not deductible as a business expense, and the $50 allocated to print JAMA is not deductible from dues. On paper that makes the $238 subscription the more deductible of the two routes. Your accountant has the final word, not us.

JAMA tells you what the latest trials found and what the USPSTF now recommends. It does not look at the patient in front of you. When a new result changes practice, the work still happens at the prescription: the drug you add, the ten already on the list, the kidney function that changed last month.

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