From staffing shortages to burnout, multiple factors have damaged the nurse-physician dynamic over the last few years — but that relationship can be fixed, Angel Mena, MD, and Ali Morin, MSN, RN, wrote in an article on MedPage Today's KevinMD.
Integration & Physician Issues
Utah has become the first state to adopt the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact through legislation.
A new survey finds physicians have different expectations and reasons for retirement than their administrators assume.
2023 marked the largest match year in the National Resident Matching Program's 70-year history with 42,952 applicants, according to a March 17 news release.
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has filled all of its residency openings in what the organization claims is a record for the upcoming year.
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A physician burnout crisis has emerged that has widespread implications for clinicians and patients alike. Not only is it causing national staff shortage issues, but burnout is changing the profession and the industry.
Residency match results are rolling in for 2023, and an unprecedented number of emergency medicine positions — 555 — are unfilled.