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.

The data on how many physicians identify as LGBTQ is limited, but if more physicians openly identified, the data could be used to track and make further progress toward having a more diverse physician workforce, a physician argued in a blog post for the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Lecture halls are not the only place Eric Strong, MD, an associate professor at Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine, likes to share his knowledge. He's also a well-known YouTube star, running a medical education channel with more than 300,000 subscribers.

Northwestern Medicine partnered with The Perry Initiative to host a forum Feb. 28-29 that aimed to inspire more women to join the field of orthopedic surgery.

Primary care physicians may not be able to recognize signs of potential prescription drug misuse among their patients, new analysis of survey data shows, according to MedPage Today.

Advocare, a major multispecialty group based in Marlton, N.J., scooped up five independent physician practices March 1 in New Jersey and the Philadelphia area.

Physician burnout has consequences for the whole healthcare industry.

Fertility coverage for female physicians should be more substantial, as data suggests female physicians are prone to experiencing higher rates of infertility than the general population, a physician argued in a perspective piece for The New England Journal of Medicine.

For every female cardiologist, there are roughly four more male cardiologists — a gender ratio that has improved only slightly since 2007-08, according to a study published in the journal Circulation.

Many physicians providing care for older patients who cannot make decisions for themselves experience moral distress, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.