A new weekly survey of primary care practices on their response to the coronavirus pandemic showed that 46 percent of respondents have no capacity to test patients for COVID-19. 

Physicians, nurses and other hospital workers nationwide are taking extreme precautions to protect themselves and their family members from COVID-19, reports The Boston Globe.

Physicians from China stressed the importance of starting extracorporeal membrane oxygenation early when treating severe cases of COVID-19, during a March 19 webinar sponsored by the American College of Cardiology, MedPage Today reports.

Effectively recruiting primary care physicians amid shortages in many U.S. areas has become even more crucial as hospitals look to increase their workforce in preparation for large surges of COVID-19 patients. Worries about staffing shortages are also emerging as the virus could sicken employees and take them out of the workforce. To attract the best talent, healthcare organizations must develop unique methods. 

Match Day — the day medical students across the country learn where they will be doing their residencies — will be more virtual this year than usual, according to MedPage Today.

Florida State University accepted the lowest percentage of applicants to its medical school in fall 2019, according to a U.S. News & World Report short list.

As U.S. hospitals cancel clinical rotations for student nurses and medical students amid the coronavirus pandemic, they could be delaying their entry into the healthcare workforce at a critically needed time, Kaiser Health News reported.

Thirty-five percent to 54 percent of U.S. nurses and physicians show significant symptoms of burnout, according to a report by the National Academy of Medicine.

Many people in the healthcare industry still view gynecology as "women's work," which has harmful financial and personal consequences for female physicians, Sarah Temkin, MD, a gynecologic oncologist in Maryland, wrote in an op-ed in STAT.

For anyone in the healthcare industry, knowledge about the shortage of physicians isn't a surprise. For years, healthcare professionals across the nation have been waving the flag and advocating for investments in the physician workforce in order to meet the growing demands of patient volume and quality care. It's up to regional health systems to develop and maintain residency programs to help combat this shortage. Our mission as a regional health system is to prevent this massive scale conundrum from impacting the care we provide by making a commitment to talent and retention.

More than 100 physicians, registered nurses and physicians assistants in Massachusetts signed an open letter opposing legislation to legalize assisted suicide in the state.

Five independent physician associations in Birmingham, Ala., banded together to create the state's largest IPA with more than 115 primary care physicians, the groups announced March 10.

The College of Health Care Professions partnered with three San Antonio healthcare employers to create direct pathways to healthcare jobs in the region, the organizations said March 10.

University of Toledo (Ohio) Medical Center's board on March 9 lifted a requirement that all physicians must be faculty, hoping to bring in more physicians and revenue to the hospital, according to The Blade.

Few family medicine residency programs offer buprenorphine training, which could hinder pregnant women's access to treatment, according to a study published in Annals of Family Medicine.

Only 12 percent of providers in the U.S. said they believe COVID-19 will pose a severe threat to Americans, according to a survey from M3 Global Research.

Premier Health in Dayton, Ohio, lost federal funding for 13 residency slots that were previously part of the program at the shuttered Good Samaritan Hospital, according to the Dayton Daily News.

Ponce (Puerto Rico) Health Sciences University is investing $80 million to build a new, four-year medical school for minority and low-income students in north St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. 

About 37 percent of premed students say they "seriously considered" abandoning their plans to become physicians due to stress, according to a survey from Kaplan Test Prep.

Female physicians are 46 percent more likely to die by suicide than women in general, according to a meta-analysis of nine studies and databases published in JAMA.