Fewer jobs are being offered to physicians in their final year of training in 2021 compared to previous years — likely because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey released May 11.   

Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth has investigated several students at its Geisel School of Medicine for allegedly cheating while taking exams online, according to a May 7 report in the Valley News.

A new family medicine residency program at Pullman (Wash.) Regional Hospital will focus on healthcare provided in a critical-access setting.

The next obstacle for the White House and state health officials is getting more physicians involved in the nation's COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Politico reported May 10.  

In just one week, Ruchika Talwar, MD, urologic surgery resident at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, raised nearly $500,000 to send India's hospitals supplies as the country battles the world's worst COVID-19 outbreak, CNN reported May 6. 

Shifts away from physician-owned practices continued in 2020, with the share of physicians in private practices dropping below 50 percent for the first time since the American Medical Association began measuring the metric in 2012, according to the latest analysis released May 5 by the AMA.

New Orleans-based LSU Health Sciences Center pulled six medical residents from the intensive care unit of Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, La., according to ABC affiliate KTBS.

Patients of physicians employed by hospitals are more likely to receive inappropriate referrals for diagnostic imaging, according to a study published May 3 in Health Affairs.

Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., will name its new college of medicine in honor of Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., MD, co-founder of HCA Healthcare and former U.S. senator, the university said May 3. 

Brevard, N.C., leaders are urging the state's attorney general to investigate why a flood of physicians have left rural Transylvania Regional Hospital, according to WLOS.

As COVID-19 vaccine supply begins to catch up with demand in the U.S., local physicians are asking to play a larger role in the next phase of the vaccine rollout targeting hesitant populations, The Hill reported April 25.

A nearly 60-year-old hospital in rural Kentucky said the facility's age is keeping physicians away, but it hopes a new facility will help address the issue, according to WAVE, an NBC-affiliated TV station in Louisville, Ky. 

Aging physicians have a higher risk of cognitive impairment than their younger counterparts, and as more physicians work into later years, safeguards are needed to protect both patient safety and physician careers, according to a commentary published in the April issue of Neurology Clinical Practice.

University Hospital in Newark, N.J., closed a Burger King restaurant at the hospital after physicians campaigned for the change. 

The proportion of Black physicians in the healthcare workforce has only increased 4 percentage points in the last 120 years, according to a study published April 19 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

As a practicing OB-GYN in the 1980s, Lawrence Antonucci, MD, didn't necessarily aspire to become CEO of a health system.

Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare is working with the Florida State University College of Medicine and real estate firm St. Joe's Co. to create a healthcare campus.

An independent monitoring team said it will examine the issue of physicians leaving Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health since the system was taken over by Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, according to MedPage Today. 

Intermountain Healthcare is teaming up with the University of Utah's medical school to develop a new program that addresses population health and encourages physicians to stay in the region.

Catherine Gordon, MD, was chosen as the new pediatrician-in-chief at Texas Children's Hospital and chair of the pediatrics department at Baylor College of Medicine, the Houston-based institutions said April 6.