Hundreds of medical students formed a volunteer network in Minnesota to help healthcare workers with any personal needs, like child care or grocery shopping, reports STAT.

Thirteen medical schools in New York state intend to allow students to graduate early to join the fight against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Associated Medical Schools of New York President and CEO Jo Wiederhorn told The Wall Street Journal.

Robert Femia, MD, chair of the department of emergency medicine, advised NYU Langone's emergency department physicians they have "sole discretion" to put patients on ventilators and the system’s backing to "withhold futile intubations," according to a March 28 email reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

Creating triage committees, responsible for allocating ventilators in hospitals facing a shortage, can help shield clinicians from having to make those distressing decisions, three clinicians from Harvard Medical School in Boston and Boston Children's Hospital argue.

The American Medical Association created a guide for retired physicians who are rejoining the workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

An emergency room physician at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., was removed from his position after denouncing the hospital's protections against the novel coronavirus, The Seattle Times reports.

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a cash crunch for primary care physician practices and forcing some to lay off employees and others to close, according to the Los Angeles Times. 

In their fight alongside their medical peers against the coronavirus, black physicians face the additional burden of broad mistrust of the federal government in many black communities, NBC News reports.

In the midst of pandemics, healthcare workers face a wide array of pressures, including the pressure to ensure they are making ethical decisions with regard to resources in the face of a crisis.

Faced with the harsh reality of working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, many physicians are preparing their wills, according to a March 26 editorial written by Bari Weiss, an opinion writer for The New York Times.

Healthcare workers at the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are bearing the brunt of the crisis.

New York University's medical school is making the unprecedented move of allowing students to graduate a few months early to join the battle against COVID-19, according to New York Daily News.

Using snorkel masks in lieu of respirators, drones to drop off testing kits and mobilizing the community to sew reusable masks are some of the ideas physicians have proposed to address the personal protective equipment shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is putting medical specialists in uncharted waters as patients come to them with questions the physicians don't always know how to answer, reports The New York Times. 

As U.S. physicians and hospitals brace for the surge in COVID-19 patients, they are turning to their counterparts in foreign countries already hard hit by the new coronavirus, according to STAT.

As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies in the U.S. and across the world, healthcare providers must get enough rest, remember to eat and know that "courage alone won't be enough," an emergency physician wrote in an article for STAT.

Match Day 2020 was historic, not only because it was the largest on record, but also because it was the first "single match," which means it was the first time that all allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) applicants participated in one matching program, according to the National Resident Matching Program.

Stephen Schwartz, MD, PhD, a professor in the University of Washington School of Medicine's pathology department, died March 17 after being hospitalized with COVID-19. He was 78 years old.

Should physicians continue to wear white coats in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, or will wearing them contribute to the virus' spread? A debate on this topic has raged on Twitter among healthcare professionals over the last two days.

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, the disease caused by the coronavirus.