New residents arrive with clinical training but often without day-one fluency in the practical skills that drive patient safety: documentation, order entry, handoffs and knowing when to escalate. Quality leaders say the gap is real but rarely surfaces as a…
Integration & Physician Issues
Internal medicine is the most in-demand physician specialty and locum tenens specialty, Doximity found. Doximity, a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released its 2026 Physician Compensation Report Aug. 25. The report surveyed physicians in June on how AI is…
Health systems and hospitals are making significant changes to leadership and educational roles in an attempt to draw more young physicians into the positions — which means confronting aspects of leadership the industry has been overlooking. Last year, Becker’s found…
Interventional radiology and neurosurgery saw the greatest jumps in annual compensation among 40 specialties, Doximity found. Doximity, a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released its 2026 Physician Compensation Report Aug. 25. The report surveyed physicians in June on how…
Physicians born abroad make up nearly half of U.S. internal medicine. Now two federal visa changes are hitting that workforce at once, and hospital leaders say the pileup is the real danger. The changes landed within weeks of each other.…
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About 39% of physicians reported AI proficiency as a factor in hiring or promotion decisions, including 15% who said it was either a “major” or “moderate” factor, Doximity found. Doximity, a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released its 2026…
Health systems and hospitals are making significant changes to leadership and educational roles in an attempt to draw more young physicians into the positions, leaders told Becker’s. Last year, Becker’s found many systems grappling with a physician leadership shortage. Leaders…
Population health accountability has been arriving gradually for years at health systems nationwide, through shared savings programs and value-based contracts that rewarded efficiency but kept most of the financial risk on Medicare’s side. That cushion is shrinking. Leanne Yanni, MD,…
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Faculty Physicians, the clinical practice group of UNC School of Medicine, has spent much of the past year rebuilding its access model, and the group saw about 8,000 more new patient visits than projected as…
Millennials in plastic surgery, oncology and hematology had the highest percent of physicians receiving pay increases in the past year, an Aug. 15 Medscape report found. Medscape’s “Modest Gains, Lingering Strain: Medscape Millennial Physician Compensation Report 2026” surveyed 5,916 across…