The American Medical Association is encouraging medical schools and residency programs to add more healthcare economics content to curricula, the physicians' group announced Nov. 19.
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Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente's new medical will be named the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, in honor of the organization's late chairman and CEO.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis gave $250,000 on Nov. 15 to a political action committee to support Medicaid expansion, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is launching the GW Center for Culinary Medicine, which will be led by the newly hired physician-chef Timothy Harlan, MD.
Phillip Gear, a former physician at Phoenix-based Hacienda HealthCare, surrendered his license Nov. 8 after failing to diagnose pregnancy in an incapacitated patient, reports AZ Central.
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Interacting with patients who are demeaning toward them is challenging and painful for physicians, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found.
Third-year medical students at Orlando-based University of Central Florida can no longer complete clerkships at the region's two largest health systems, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners is sending its physicians and nurses to improv classes to help minimize clinician burnout, the StarTribune reports.
Detroit Medical Center CEO Tony Tedeschi, MD, announced Nov. 12 that the system will appeal a decision by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education to withdraw accreditation for the system's neurosurgery residency program, according to Crain's Detroit Business.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will stop providing surgical services at two of its Minnesota hospitals, according to The Mankato Free Press.