Integration & Physician Issues

Texas' physician population has been increasing at a record pace for the past decade, according to new data from the Texas Medical Association.

Coastal Medical, an independent primary care provider with more than 500 employees, plans to join Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan.

Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center-Fort Worth (Texas) plans to launch a residency training program in 2021 to help address the area's physician shortage.

The only neurologist practicing at Onancock, Va.-based Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital abruptly left his post this week, reports the Eastern Shore Post.

Detroit Medical Center will lose accreditation for its neurosurgery training program in June after the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education denied the hospital's appeal, according to The Detroit News.

Allina Health System in Minneapolis bought Apple Valley (Minn.) Medical Clinic before a backdrop of ongoing consolidation among physician groups in the area, according to the Star Tribune.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix has awarded eight students with primary care physician scholarships.

Female physicians often hide unique characteristics that distinguish them from male colleagues, conforming to "an antiquated stereotype of what it means to be a physician," Nisha Mehta, MD, a radiologist in Charlotte, N.C., wrote in an op-ed for Medscape.

More physicians are taking to TikTok, a social media platform where users share content via short videos, to disperse medical lessons, according to The New York Times.

Twenty-one medical students of Tucson-based University of Arizona will receive free tuition for their commitment to providing primary care in underserved communities in the state, according to News 4 Tucson.