Integration & Physician Issues

Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center launched a new healthcare leadership program, according to a Sept. 22 news release.

Healthcare systems have started residency programs and partnerships to address workforce shortages.

The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio appointed Carlayne Jackson, MD, as chair of the Department of Neurology, according to a Sept. 23 news release.

Pullman (Wash.) Regional Hospital will partner with the Spokane-based Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine to create a new family practice residency program, CBS affiliate KLEW reported Sept. 22. 

Gulfport, Miss.-based Memorial Health System was granted initial accreditation through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to establish its graduate medical education program in internal medicine, according to a Sept. 20 news release.

Marshall, Mo.-based Fitzgibbon Hospital will employ providers from Missouri Valley Physicians, also in Marshall, effective Jan. 2. 

The American Academy of Family Physicians named Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, as president, according to a Sept. 21 news release.

Healthcare worker burnout reached 40 percent in January, up from 32 percent in 2019, a new study from researchers at Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health found. 

Among surveyed pediatricians, 1 in 5, or 20 percent, indicated plans to leave their job in the next year, and nearly half of those considering leaving in the next five years indicated plans to leave medicine altogether, according to a…

Tammy Lundstrom, MD, has always known she wanted to work in healthcare. Since joining Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health in April 2018 as senior vice president and chief medical officer, she has been able to continually meet two of her core…