Integration & Physician Issues

The Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., erroneously emailed 364 letters of acceptance to students seeking admission.

The first portion of the exam medical school graduates are required to take before going into residency will be graded pass/fail beginning in 2022.

Most depressed emergency physicians say that they are "easily exasperated with patients" as a result of their depression, according to a new Medscape report.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System created a $10 million tuition fund to grow its own workforce amid current labor market challenges, according to The Advocate, a Louisiana news outlet.

Annual performance reviews for physicians often use counterproductive performance metrics that do not align with healthcare organizations' main values and strategic goals, according to Medscape.

Harvard Medical School faculty will vote Feb. 12 on an advisory resolution to divest the university's endowment tied to fossil fuel companies and "declare a climate crisis," according to student newspaper The Harvard Crimson.

The new strain of coronavirus has sickened 45,206 and resulted in 1,117 deaths worldwide, and healthcare workers caring for these patients face a high risk of contracting the infection themselves.

Major hospitals and health systems backed a bill in Pennsylvania to give nurse practitioners full practice authority, the Elwood City Ledger reports.

Only 36 percent of hospitals in Texas have reported a physician to HHS' National Practitioner Data Bank, meant to track healthcare professionals who do not meet professional standards, reports ABC affiliate WFAA.

A physician with Daly City, Calif.-based Seton Medical Center, which is at risk of closing, is speaking out against the billionaire owner who promised to revive the facility, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.