Students from rural areas are grossly underrepresented in medical schools, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Due to budget constraints, Chicago-area health system Edward-Elmhurst Health reportedly plans to lay off 15 physicians from its immediate care clinics next year and replace them with nurse practitioners, sources told Becker's Hospital Review.

David Geffen, co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures, gave the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA an additional $46 million to extend full-ride scholarships to 120 more students, the school announced Dec. 2.

Significantly more medical students reported disabilities in 2019 compared to 2016, according to a research letter published in JAMA. 

A feature in The New York Times highlights how money is intrinsic to medical education, creating a barrier both financially and culturally for lower-income students.

Emergency medicine specialists were most likely to generate "surprise bills," or out-of-network bills for services provided at in-network facilities, compared to six other specialties, according to an analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent, nonprofit research organization.

The longtime director of Detroit Medical Center's neurosurgery residency program, who stepped down in September, wants to set the record straight after the program lost accreditation earlier this month. In an interview with The Detroit News, he said allegations against the program are "blatant lies."

Access to primary care physicians for rural Texans is scarce, according to an analysis from the Observer.

Chicago-based primary care company VillageMD is celebrating the opening Nov. 20 of its first primary care clinic at a Walgreens store in Houston, the company announced on Twitter.

The American Medical Association is encouraging medical schools and residency programs to add more healthcare economics content to curricula, the physicians' group announced Nov. 19.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente's new medical will be named the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, in honor of the organization's late chairman and CEO.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis gave $250,000 on Nov. 15 to a political action committee to support Medicaid expansion, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is launching the GW Center for Culinary Medicine, which will be led by the newly hired physician-chef Timothy Harlan, MD. 

Phillip Gear, a former physician at Phoenix-based Hacienda HealthCare, surrendered his license Nov. 8 after failing to diagnose pregnancy in an incapacitated patient, reports AZ Central. 

Interacting with patients who are demeaning toward them is challenging and painful for physicians, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found.

  Third-year medical students at Orlando-based University of Central Florida can no longer complete clerkships at the region's two largest health systems, according to the Orlando Sentinel. 

Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners is sending its physicians and nurses to improv classes to help minimize clinician burnout, the StarTribune reports.

Detroit Medical Center CEO Tony Tedeschi, MD, announced Nov. 12 that the system will appeal a decision by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education to withdraw accreditation for the system's neurosurgery residency program, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

Houston-based Texas Medical Center says the physician shortage may be less severe than anticipated, according to a survey of consumers and physicians from its Health Policy Institute. 

The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education withdrew accreditation earlier this month for Detroit Medical Center's neurosurgery training program with Wayne State University, according to The Detroit News. The accreditation is slated to end June 30.