Female surgeons are less likely to receive research funding from the National Institutes of Health than their male peers — and if they do receive a grant, it's smaller, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery.
Integration & Physician Issues
At Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine, applications are up 50 percent, and at Boston University School of Medicine they're up 27 percent — a surge that admissions officers are calling the "Fauci effect," NPR reports.
An Oregon physician who publicly spoke out against wearing a mask to slow the spread of COVID-19 has had his medical license suspended, according to The Washington Post.
As an emergency room physician at Carmichael, Calif.-based Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Taylor Nichols, MD, has faced many hard shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the virus was not to blame for a recent patient encounter that Dr. Nichols…
There's ample opportunity to increase quality, improve the patient experience, and drive margin using value-based care, but organizations have to implement and scale the strategy properly to be successful.
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Knoxville, Tenn-based physician practice TeamHealth deployed clinicians to El Paso, Texas, as COVID-19 cases increased in the city, according to a company news release.
Many New Jersey officials are voicing concerns about staffing shortages as COVID-19 surges again across the U.S., reports the North Jersey Media Group.
During earlier months of the pandemic, hospitals were primarily concerned about whether they'd have enough ventilators to treat critical patients. Now, after devicemakers ramped up production to make more than 200,000 ventilators, there's plenty — but the new roadblock is…
Novant Health and UNC Health are planning a UNC School of Medicine branch campus in Charlotte, N.C., the health systems said Nov. 19.
Baylor Scott & White Health and the Baylor College of Medicine have partnered to develop a four-year regional medical school in Temple, Texas, according to a Nov. 17 news release.