A record number of senior applicants registered for this year's Match Day, held March 18, though the total number of applicants fell from 2021, according to the National Resident Matching Program, which operates the residency program application system.
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Robert McIntyre, MD, chief of medicine at South Shore Hospital, died March 17 after an apparent diving accident in Florida, according to a news release from the South Weymouth, Mass.-based health system.
Healthcare systems have started residency programs and partnerships to address workforce shortages.
Primary care in the U.S. lags behind other high-income countries in many ways, including access and continuity, according to an analysis released March 15 by the Commonwealth Fund.
IRCAD, a global surgical training institute, will open its North American headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., at Atrium Health's new innovation district, "the Pearl."
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The University of New Mexico is struggling to meet the needs of its cadaver dissection program due to a severe shortage of donated bodies, the university said recently.
Healthcare systems have started residency programs and partnerships to address workforce shortages.
Nearly 1 in 10 physicians reported having suicidal thoughts in 2021, according to Medscape's ''Physician Burnout Report'' published March 4.
Elk Grove-based California Northstate University College of Medicine was put on probation March 1 by an academic accreditation agency, according to a March 3 report by The Sacramento Bee.
Jordan Toman, MD, a radiologist specializing in women's imaging, has joined Green Bay, Wis.-based BayCare Clinic Radiology.