Making medical school free for students has been hailed as a way to encourage more graduates to pursue specialties that are less lucrative and practice in underserved areas. Yet evidence suggests that free medical education has not achieved either outcome.

Sometimes, small health systems offer certain advantages over larger competitors.

The quality of a physician's onboarding experience can dictate whether they find satisfaction in their role, according to a recent report from the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment.

The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine has spent the past two years building out its leadership team ahead of plans to welcome its inaugural class of students in 2025. 

Some medical schools are updating their curriculum to provide greater depth to disease education. 

As part of its Joy in Medicine Health System Recognition Program, the American Medical Association has honored 62 health systems for their commitment to physician well-being.

Billing patients for patient portal messages may have unintended consequences for both patients and physicians, a recent study found.

Graduates of a three-year medical school program performed as well as their four-year counterparts, according to a study of the nation's first three-year MD program for all residency programs. 

A panel has identified and recommended 36 nutrition competencies that should be included in undergraduate and graduate medical school and training.

Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is adding on leadership from nearby Intermountain Health to guide the development of its newly announced medical school.

At Phoenix Children's, leaders are taking note of a growing trend in the subspeciality space. 

Both the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases in hospitalized patients remain prominent clinical challenges and are associated with a substantial financial burden for healthcare systems. This is particularly true in the case of sepsis and septic shock.

Twelve physician groups expressed their "profound objection" to Humana's classification of a spinal procedure as "unproven" in a letter to the healthcare insurer.

Internal medicine represents the largest primary care specialty, with 41.4% of all primary care physicians practicing in this field, according to new data from KFF.

Residency unions have grown in prominence, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unions can provide resident physicians collective bargaining power and the ability to advocate for improved working conditions. Although no study has demonstrated improvement in resident happiness, burnout, and job satisfaction after unionization, the number of institutions having unions representing their residents are growing. While these unions offer several benefits, there are also significant downsides to surgical specialties, as the ‘one size fits all’ model does not always allow for differences in training. 

The emergency medicine specialty is poised to develop its own platform to handle residency applications, rather than rely on the Electronic Residency Application Service, Medpage Today reported Oct. 9.

From patients who want to be cryopreserved to the matter of whether physicians are obligated to take Medicaid patients, Medscape found physicians have mixed reactions to a number of "hot topics" in medicine.

Arizona State University selected Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth as its primary clinical affiliate for its upcoming ASU's School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering.

The Liaison Committee of Medical Education has responded to an opinion piece published Oct. 3 in The Wall Street Journal that claimed the medical school education process is "outdated, expensive and misguided."

New England's first physician-only EMS response team launched in Maine, ABC affiliate WABI reported Oct. 7.