Premier Health in Dayton, Ohio, lost federal funding for 13 residency slots that were previously part of the program at the shuttered Good Samaritan Hospital, according to the Dayton Daily News.
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Ponce (Puerto Rico) Health Sciences University is investing $80 million to build a new, four-year medical school for minority and low-income students in north St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
About 37 percent of premed students say they "seriously considered" abandoning their plans to become physicians due to stress, according to a survey from Kaplan Test Prep.
Female physicians are 46 percent more likely to die by suicide than women in general, according to a meta-analysis of nine studies and databases published in JAMA.
The data on how many physicians identify as LGBTQ is limited, but if more physicians openly identified, the data could be used to track and make further progress toward having a more diverse physician workforce, a physician argued in a…
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Lecture halls are not the only place Eric Strong, MD, an associate professor at Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine, likes to share his knowledge. He's also a well-known YouTube star, running a medical education channel with more than 300,000…
Northwestern Medicine partnered with The Perry Initiative to host a forum Feb. 28-29 that aimed to inspire more women to join the field of orthopedic surgery.
Primary care physicians may not be able to recognize signs of potential prescription drug misuse among their patients, new analysis of survey data shows, according to MedPage Today.
Advocare, a major multispecialty group based in Marlton, N.J., scooped up five independent physician practices March 1 in New Jersey and the Philadelphia area.
Physician burnout has consequences for the whole healthcare industry.