Integration & Physician Issues

St. Louis-based SSM Health and the Missouri Foundation for Health are helping fund Missouri's first addiction medicine fellowship at St. Louis University School of Medicine, reports St. Louis Public Radio, the local NPR station.

Hawaii is short an estimated 509 to 820 physicians, which represents between 17 percent to more than 27 percent of the current workforce, according to an annual state report from the University of Hawaii.  

Jacksonville (Fla.) University will begin offering two online patient safety degrees for hospital nurses, physicians, administrators and other healthcare professionals in January, according to The Florida Times-Union.

  While states like California continue to debate the scope of practice for nurse practitioners, many others have opted to allow NPs to practice without physician supervision. 

Behind the wheel, orthopedists speed more than physicians, but internists tend to get the most tickets, a study that examines the driving behaviors of physicians shows.

Premed students may benefit from taking an anthropology course to better understand the nuanced social aspects of patient care, reports U.S. News & World Report.

At Allscripts, we understand through more than three decades of serving physician practices just how well you know the needs of your patients, and that raising the success of your practice requires much more than technology solutions.

A bill to establish independence for Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners passed a committee in the Florida House of Representatives Dec. 11, according to WGCU, the local NPR station. 

More than half of all pediatric residents display symptoms of burnout, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

For the first time in history, women make up the majority of enrolled medical students, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.