Integration & Physician Issues

Baltimore-based Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital plans to open a new medical school at historically Black college Morgan State University, also in Baltimore, CBS affiliate WJZ reported Sept. 27.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine identified four new research focus areas identified by the research strategic planning steering committee and the Academic Medical Center of the 21st Century research steering committee.

Physicians who are compared to one another report lower job satisfaction and higher levels of burnout, according to a Sept. 28 research brief in UCLA's Anderson Review. 

Saadia Sherwani, MD, has always had diversity in medicine at the forefront of her mind.

All surveyed participants in a pilot program for physicians who are also parents saw an improvement in their productivity, according to a Sept. 26 Healio report. 

Six factors in particular are driving physicians' high burnout rates, and they existed well before the pandemic's onset, according to Paul DeChant, MD. 

Here are 10 contributions to medical schools in 2022 that Becker's has covered since Feb. 8: 

Since 2015, the number of medical residents and fellows affiliated with Ascension Seton in Austin, Texas, and Dell Medical School at The University of Texas in Austin has increased 55 percent, translating to 401 physicians providing care across Central Texas,…

Penn Medicine plans to purchase a minority equity stake in Independence Blue Cross's subsidiary Tandigm Health, according to a Sept. 27 news release.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, both in New Brunswick, N.J., have partnered to create a new medical research and innovation center, New Jersey 101.5 reported Sept. 26.