Two years after the emergency medicine residency match rate fell to 81.8%, the specialty’s fill rate is approaching its prepandemic norm. In 2023, an unprecedented 555 emergency medicine positions went unfilled. The next year, the fill rate increased to 95.5%,…
Integration & Physician Issues
The American Medical Association is urging CMS to reopen a payment program exception before a March 31 deadline as a nationwide intravenous fluid shortage pummels the healthcare industry. CMS has previously offered an extreme and uncontrollable circumstances exception for the…
Medical journals provide the latest information in best practices, but often most of their knowledge is locked behind a paywall beyond most physicians’ reach. That’s why Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah created a program…
On March 18, Arkansas became the 14th state to join the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact. With the passing of SB 101, licensed physician assistants in Arkansas will soon be allowed to practice in some other states. The 13 other states…
To understand American healthcare today doesn’t require mastery of CRISPR or mRNA vaccine technology or the latest minimally invasive cardiac procedure — although these are all wonderful and life-changing innovations. Instead, the topic currently guiding much of our understanding is…
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The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Pasadena, Calif., has received initial accreditation, having completed the institutional review process. The accreditation review was conducted by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges' Senior College and University Commission.
Physicians should lean more into do-it-yourself medicine education to improve patient care and outcomes amid the physician shortage and long wait times for treatment, said Alexa Kimball, MD, president and CEO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess…
The feminization of medicine has accelerated dramatically in the last four decades.
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health is partnering with AHSA to develop internal physician contingent float pools.
Radiology has the highest per-hour compensation among medical specialties, while primary care has the lowest, a recent American Medical Association survey found.