CMS has awarded 400 additional Medicare-funded residency positions to 135 hospitals across 37 states, an effort that aims to further address the nation’s growing physician shortage. About 62% of the new slots will support primary care and psychiatry programs, CMS…
Integration & Physician Issues
An increasing number of medical schools are adopting lifestyle medicine and preventive care into their curricula, according to a Dec. 18 post from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Nutrition is one lifestyle medicine component medical schools are readily integrating,…
Many hospitals and health systems are opening new physician residency programs to expand training opportunities for medical students and bolster the pipeline of future physicians. Below are 41 hospitals and health systems launching or announcing new programs in 2025. Note:…
St. Louis-based SSM Health is working to bring more specialty care under value-based compensation models over the next two years, as the health system seeks to extend physician accountability for quality metrics beyond traditional primary care-focused arrangements. The system already…
Concierge and direct primary care models are rapidly reshaping the U.S. primary care landscape. These membership-based practices, which charge monthly or annual fees for enhanced access and longer visits, have increased in recent years — often operating outside the traditional…
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Accreditors have given Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine approval to increase its MD program class size over the next five years. The medical school will gradually increase its enrollment to 200 students by the 2031-32 academic year, up…
Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based Froedtert ThedaCare is building dozens of townhouses for medical residents on a property adjacent to ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah (Wis.), where its graduate medical education program is based. Three details: 1. The health system is building 56…
Over the past year, 18 primary care providers have moved from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham to Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health, reflecting a longstanding battle for market share between the state’s two largest healthcare institutions. In November 2024,…
Internal medicine represents the largest primary care specialty, with 41.4% of all primary care physicians practicing in the field, according to new data from KFF. In contrast, geriatrics represents just 0.3% of the primary care workforce, underscoring a significant disparity…
New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is rethinking the traditional premed pipeline with alternative admissions routes designed to bring more diverse, practice-ready physicians to the workforce. Icahn School of Medicine aims to reduce rigid premed barriers…