New Orleans, La.-based Ochsner Health is not immune to the workforce shortage, but has created its own approach to triage the issue, according to the American Medical Association.

Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., will open a health college in August 2025. It will initially offer two nursing degrees to students, with plans for other health disciplines to be added over time, according to a March 11 announcement shared with Becker's.

More pulmonary medicine physicians report having happier marriages than any other specialty, according to a Medscape report.

Nearly 20% of people in the U.S. receive health insurance through the Medicare program, but changes in physician fee schedules have made it more difficult for providers to stay in practice, according to a March 6 report from KFF.

Most of the top paying metropolitan areas for physician specialties are located in the East or Midwest, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Amid a nationwide shortage of physicians, contractual noncompete clauses are making it more challenging for patients to receive the care they need, particularly in more rural regions, and physicians are pushing back, NBC News reported March 3.

No one owns the title "doctor," according to Shakeel Ahmed, MD, CEO of St. Louis-based ASC group Atlas Surgical Group. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Orlando-based University of Central Florida have added a reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital in Kissimmee. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Health System announced March 1 that it will not reopen its clinic in Janesville, Minn.

Hospitals in Arizona, Florida, Kansas and Oklahoma run by the Department of Veterans Affairs are among the system's most at-risk facilities that are jeopardized by increasing climate threats, according to a report published by the VA and obtained by Inside Climate News.

Sixty-five percent of physicians said they see definite or some advantage of using AI tools, including nonclinical uses, an American Medical Association report found.

A prominent pathologist at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, who was placed on administrative leave beginning in May amid misconduct allegations, has resigned his post, the physician and hospital confirmed to The Washington Post.

Emergency department boarding has a solution, but hospitals aren't implementing it, according to Hashem Zikry, MD, a current emergency medicine physician at UCLA, and former chief resident in the emergency department at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

From workplace violence to affordability, medical association leaders have their eyes on several issues in the healthcare field that need to be changed.

Nebraska is the highest paying state for anesthesiologists, while emergency medicine physicians make the most in Kentucky, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data. 

A $1 billion gift to Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City will provide free tuition in perpetuity for all future students. It is one of the largest philanthropic gifts ever given to a medical school — following a trend of increasingly large, single donations to these institutions.

Montefiore's Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City said it will offer free tuition in perpetuity to medical school students after a $1 billion donation from Ruth Gottesman, EdD, chair of the Einstein board of trustees and Montefiore Health System board member, The New York Times reported.

Roger Guillemin, MD, PhD, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroendocrinologist whose work on hormones helped lead to the development of birth control pills and treatments for cancer, died Feb. 21 at 100, The Washington Post reported.

More women than ever are becoming physicians, but female physicians still have the highest attrition rates, The Hill reported Feb. 22.

The dean of Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine resigned one day after the university's president called for his removal after allegations about a physician taking photos of female students in class.