Female physicians face higher levels of burnout than their male counterparts, according to four surveys referenced in a Sept. 14 article on the American Medical Association's website.
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Burnout among primary care physicians is "a symptom" of a bigger issue: the need for sustainable careers, wrote Timothy Hoff, PhD, for Harvard Business Review Sept. 13.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania launched a new four-year palliative care program, it said in an email to Becker's Sept. 12.
Residency applicants from historically excluded racial groups are matched in competitive specialties at lower rates than their white and Asian peers, according to a recent study.
Many states temporarily waived or relaxed scope of practice rules for physician assistants during the pandemic to expand access to care. Now, PAs are pushing for those changes to become permanent, Medscape reported Sept. 9.
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New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine received a $61.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Sept. 9 to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center, it said in an email to…
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Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center has decided not to follow through with a family practice residency program with Family Health Centers, also in Orangeburg, The Times and Democrat reported Sept. 8.
Creative solutions will be required to expand the talent pipeline of physicians in the U.S., Heidi Chumley, MD, dean of Ross University School of Medicine in Miramar, Fla., and head of Adtalem Global Education's Academic Council, said during a recent…
The University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora named Jay Lemery, MD, as its inaugural endowed chair in climate medicine Sept. 8. It is the first position of its kind in the nation.