Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, part of Ascension Wisconsin, is building out a neurosurgery program to become more competitive with other hospitals in the area, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Annapolis, Md.-based Anne Arundel Medical Center will begin a three-year internal medicine residency program.

Neha Vyas, MD, has spent more than two decades practicing as a family physician in Cleveland. In that time, she's picked up several healthy habits from her own patients, which she outlined in an op-ed for U.S. News & World Report.

Nearly 100 physicians split from Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health last year to form an independent medical group called Tryon Medical Partners. Now, more physicians are joining the group, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital plans to maintain labor and delivery services at the Stuart, Fla.-based facility, despite the planned departure of its OB-GYN physician group, reports USA Today affiliate TC Palm.

The American Medical Association recognized 22 healthcare organizations for their efforts to address the root causes of physician burnout.

In a recent publication from Philips, Henk van Houten explains the need and ability for prostate cancer, the second most common cancer among men worldwide, treatment to be optimized and individualized. 

Oklahoma is experiencing a severe physician shortage in part due to a limited number of residency positions in the state, one medical leader told CBS affiliate KWTV.

Thanks to $160 million in donations, New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine is wiping out medical school debt for all its students who qualify for financial aid, the school announced Sept. 16. 

Seven physicians plan to break away from the CaroMont Medical Group to join Tryon Medical Partners, an independent practice formed by nearly 100 physicians who ditched Atrium Health last year, according to The Charlotte Observer.

California passed a bill Sept. 12 that will require clinicians to complete implicit bias training as part of their continuing education, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Bridgeport (Conn.) Hospital, part of the Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health system, created a new leadership role for physician wellness, according to the Connecticut Post. 

Most medical schools teach just nine hours of formalized pain education, according to Shravani Durbhakula, MD, a pain management specialist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. 

Emergency rooms in communities where surgeon availability is limited can be forced into a game of patient hot potato when an individual presents with a condition the hospital is unable to treat. When the hospital has to send a patient to another facility as quickly as possible, quality patient care is put at risk, community trust in the hospital erodes and revenue opportunities are lost.

Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network created a new family medicine residency program designed "to stop burnout before it happens," the system announced Sept. 5.

To combat the physician shortage that all states are suffering from, Arizona is changing its licensing laws, according to CNBC.

Vituity's Director of Benefits, Chris Renner, provides advice on financial planning for young physicians based on his extensive experience in personal finance. 

Male and female physicians report that women in medicine face more harassment, fewer opportunities and lower pay than men, according to CompHealth, a healthcare staffing firm.

The number of nonwhite students graduating from medical schools has increased since 2002 but black, Hispanic and American Indian students are still underrepresented, according to a study published Sept. 4 in Jama Network Open Journal. 

VillageMD, a Chicago-based provider of primary care support solutions, raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by international investment firm Kinnevik.