Joan Dickson, MD, is the only psychiatrist within a 400-plus-mile radius that covers eastern Montana and part of North Dakota, reports Bloomberg.

The VA is teaming up with the University of South Florida's Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation in Tampa to create a "mini-residency" for women's health, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Nearly 14 percent of internal medicine residents reported experiencing bullying by someone in a senior position during their training program in 2016, according to a study published in JAMA.

A growing number of medical schools and hospitals are taking measures to help physicians experiencing job-related trauma, according to AAMCNews.

Clinician burnout is a significant challenge for healthcare organizations, with the potential to negatively affect care quality and patient satisfaction.1,2 At the Becker's Hospital Review 10th Annual Meeting in Chicago, the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies sponsored an executive roundtable discussion including leaders from across the U.S. who came together to share strategies to reduce clinician burnout.

Some medical schools are beginning to incorporate curriculum on climate change in lectures and elective classes, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Nearly two-thirds of practicing physicians (65 percent) still have medical school debt, and just 10 percent of those physicians expect to pay it off in the next two years, according to a national survey of 500 physicians conducted by Weatherby Healthcare, a locum tenens physician staffing company.

Los Angeles Times' Soumya Karlamangla profiled the journey of Adam Litwin, MD, who recently passed his final board exam to become a physician two decades after doing jail time for impersonating a physician at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Professional coaching could help reduce emotional exhaustion and burnout symptoms among physicians, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found.

Driven by new technologies and beckoned by manmade threats to public health, medicine has reached a unique turning point that should compel physicians to organize as a single political force, according to a column published in The New Yorker by cardiologist Eric Topol, MD, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute.  

Researchers calculated a baseline measure of empathy among medical students, which could be used to assess future applicants' capacity for the soft skill, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.  

New York University Long Island School of Medicine on July 29 welcomed its first class of 24 students, all of whom were offered full-tuition scholarships.

NYC Health + Hospitals is expanding a primary care scheduling program to its ambulatory care practices after using it successfully at its Bellevue location in New York City to cut new patient wait times by 73 percent and to help improve continuity between physicians and patients. 

  Medical residents at the closing Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia are scrambling to find new training positions and secure work visas — and avoid thousands of dollars in fees associated with breaking their apartment leases, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

A study out of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic found burnout is associated with greater levels of implicit and explicit racial bias among physicians. 

One Medical, a tech-based primary care medical group, is in growth mode. One investor says the company, valued at nearly $2 billion, could be "the Starbucks of primary care," according to CNBC.

While most physicians believe self-care is important, many are unable to practice the amount of self-care they desire due to a lack of time and growing job demands, according to a survey conducted by The Harris Poll.

The bedrock of many small communities is the local hospital. 

Burnout is pervasive among clinicians. It affects 2 in 5 physicians and 3 in 5 nurses, Ascension Medical Group CMO Baligh Yehia, MD, noted in a recent LinkedIn post. Burnout directly affects the quality of care patients receive and costs the U.S. more than $4 billion annually. 

The Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., and Harvard Business School in Boston recently unveiled a new joint master's degree program in the life sciences.