White physicians reported higher rates of work-related burnout compared to Hispanic/Latinx, Black and Asian physicians, according to a study published Aug. 7 in JAMA Network Open.

The American College of Physicians is calling on medical schools to waive the Medical College Admission Test requirement for students seeking admission in 2021. 

The Texas Medical Board warned physicians that it could take action against those who make "false, misleading or deceptive" claims about potential treatments for COVID-19.

In the past four years, physicians at UC San Diego's hospitals and clinics have reported low morale, prompting leadership to restructure management and work-related accommodations, according to an investigative report from inewsource in San Diego.

Jan van Deursen, PhD, a well-known anti-aging and cancer researcher, has left Mayo Clinic after more than 20 years amid accusations that he bullied colleagues and created an unhealthy work environment, according to the Post Bulletin. 

After two hours of sleep a night for four months and seeing a member of his team contract the virus, Joseph Varon, MD, is growing exasperated.

Equal representation for women in many medical specialties will take decades if progress continues at the current pace, according to a new study published July 29 in JAMA Surgery.

Eighteen anesthesiologists at Gainesville-based University of Florida Health were diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier in July after they attended a private party, reports Fresh Take Florida.

The American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledged the racist treatment its first two Black members endured and vowed to establish an agenda promoting equity through meaningful diversity, according to a July 29 policy statement. 

Primary care and family medicine physicians made up the greatest share of physicians who have died of COVID-19 globally, a new study shows.

An open letter urging the government to suspend non-essential businesses and activities, listen to public health experts and reset the U.S. pandemic response has drawn support from more than 1,000 health professionals. 

Female physicians across the globe began making social media posts featuring themselves in bikinis July 23, signaling disapproval of a recent study that deemed bikini photos too "unprofessional" for the field, according to Scientific American.

Fewer Americans are visiting their primary care physicians, undergoing medical testing or seeing specialists during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey from The Beryl Institute and Ipsos.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente opened its new medical school July 27 with an inaugural class of 50 students and a curriculum that supports a hybrid in-person/virtual learning approach amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A vast majority of emergency medicine physicians said increasing the availability of personal protective equipment would relieve their stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey shows.

A second-year medical student in the U.K. created a guidebook to help clinicians diagnose common conditions in patients with dark skin, reports NBC News.

Within CMS’s Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, Conditions of Participation (CoPs) require hospitals with an EHR, including critical access and psychiatric hospitals, to send electronic patient notifications for patient admissions, discharges and transfers to PCPs, physicians and post-acute providers and suppliers.

The stress of balancing personal and professional demands is the biggest career challenge among female physicians, according to a new report from Medscape.

Premedical students in the U.S. and Canada are urging the Association of American Medical Colleges to move the Medical College Admission Test online or make the test optional during the pandemic.

Jeremy Rose, MD, remembers what 7 p.m. in April once sounded like in New York: city residents rushing to fire escapes and balconies with pots and pans, clapping and cheering on front-line healthcare workers as they ended their shifts.