Graduate medical education (GME) office for an academic medical center (AMC) or teaching hospital is responsible for maintaining ACGME accreditation of its residency and fellowship programs as well as fulfilling a variety of other responsibilities.

Academic medicine should follow the lead of the National Institutes of Health and implement term limits to open up leadership positions for women and minorities, write three female physician researchers in a commentary for The New England Journal of Medicine. 

The University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque will shut down its neurosurgery residency program on June 30, 2020, after losing accreditation, according to the Albuquerque Journal. 

Harris A. Berman, dean of Boston-based Tufts University School of Medicine, is retiring at the end of the year.

California lawmakers awarded University of California, Davis, $3.85 million to develop a training program to prepare medical professionals to have conversations with patients about guns.

Detroit-based Wayne State University sent termination notices to 110 pediatricians on Oct. 14. The pediatricians, who work for the university's medical school and Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, can either join WSU's pediatrics group or lose their jobs with the university in November, according to The Detroit News.

Most medical groups (86 percent) feel regulatory burden has increased in the past year, with 77 percent pointing to CMS' Quality Payment Program as "very" or "extremely" burdensome, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Annual Regulatory Burden Survey." 

Nearly three-fourths of female physicians with children said they did not receive an adequate amount of maternity leave, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

New York City-based Albert Einstein College of Medicine is partnering with City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy to offer a combined medical and master's of public health degree. 

Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is organizing its clinical enterprises into a statewide health system, called UAMS Health, the university announced Oct. 8.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health affiliated with the 23-physician Concorde Medical Group, a multispecialty group with seven locations in Manhattan.

Thirty-four medical residents were forced to relocate after Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, W.Va., closed its doors Sept. 4, according to The Intelligencer.

The University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis is piloting a two-year "house system" for third- and fourth-year medical students, in a program Minnesota Daily likens to the Hogwarts houses in Harry Potter.

Physicians were once "America's quintessential Republicans," but industry and workforce changes, among other trends, have produced what The Wall Street Journal calls a "historic shift" to medical professionals supporting the Democratic Party.

Emergency department physicians at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) rushed a woman to trauma care after she presented to the ED with panic attack symptoms and zombie makeup on her face, according to FOX 2 Detroit.

Since 2018, 278 physicians and physician assistants were disciplined by the North Carolina Medical Board, according to a CBS 17 investigation.

Less than a third (30.2 percent) of internal medicine residents were women in 1991. Twenty-five years later, still less than half (43.2 percent) of internal medicine residents were women, according to a research letter published by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital closed and consolidated two primary care offices into Hudson Falls (N.Y.) Medical Center in what appears to be a diversion from its state-approved closure plan, according to The Post-Star. 

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Va.) and its clinics are dealing with a shortage of civilian physicians amid a dispute involving companies contracted to staff the hospital, according to The Virginian-Pilot.