Integration & Physician Issues

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted traditional learning processes and environments for medical schools nationwide this spring.

More than 1,400 physicians have signed a petition against Arizona governor's decision to "opt out" of CMS' physician supervision requirement to allow nurse anesthetists to administer anesthesia without physician supervision, according to local news station KVOA.

The University of California San Francisco received a $1 million gift to establish a COVID-19 morale support fund for faculty and staff.

Duke Health in Durham, N.C., partnered with One Medical, a membership-based chain of primary care clinics, to expand primary care access in the greater Raleigh-Durham region. 

Hospitals and physicians across the country are organizing efforts to drive voter registration, according to ABC News.

Brian Berman, former chief of pediatrics at Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health, has taken a new role at Detroit Medical Center, The Detroit News reported.

Sixty percent of internal medicine residency programs in the United States do not have formal curricula on health disparities, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare a sad truth in America: health outcomes are too often based on race, ethnicity and zip code, a track record that places us behind our global peers, one that needs our collective attention for…

White physicians reported higher rates of work-related burnout compared to Hispanic/Latinx, Black and Asian physicians, according to a study published Aug. 7 in JAMA Network Open.

The American College of Physicians is calling on medical schools to waive the Medical College Admission Test requirement for students seeking admission in 2021.