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Does the AMA want that or is that the purview of state medical boards? AMA doesn't set practice laws. The people who lobby against new grad MDs having the same practice rights as NPs/PAs are NPs and PAs (more NPs). NPs lobby against assistant-physician laws because why would you want someone who has had 500 hours of clinical shadowing while completing their part-time online, direct-entry, 100% acceptance, diploma-mill school (NP) vs. a new-grad physician who's had 2 years of physiology, anatomy, and pharmacology and 2 years with 5000 clinical hours where there's actually an expectation that you contribute treatment plans and care to the team. The fact that the AMA has been asleep at the wheel and unable to stop NPs from getting independent practice in 20+ states show that they don't have any real influence on who practices where.