Integration & Physician Issues

Interns, residents and fellows interrupted a graduate medical education meeting Oct. 16 at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital to advocate for improvements to working conditions, WNPR reports.

An oncologist shortage is expected as providers age and an imminent retirement wave approaches, according to an Oct. 11 Doximity analysis. 

General surgery residents, especially women, frequently experience discrimination or mistreatment, according to research published by The New England Journal of Medicine.

Medical residents unconsciously prefer male leaders — a bias that could have a "profound impact" on leadership and patient care, according to a study published Oct. 29 in BMC Medical Education.

Pediatricians are much more likely to discuss noncontroversial safety topics — like smoke alarm safety — than to discuss best practices for gun storage with patient families, according to new research published by JAMA Pediatrics and featured by CNN.

HHS is awarding $319 million in scholarships and loan repayments to clinicians and students who participate in the National Health Service Corps, a program that brings care to underserved communities. HHS announced the awards Oct. 23.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) issues will continue to have a huge impact on the delivery of effective healthcare.

Pullman (Wash.) Regional Hospital needs voter approval for a $29 million bond to create a family medicine residency program for 12 physicians, The Spokesman-Review reports.

Oakwood University, a historically black university in Huntsville, Ala., is partnering with Ross University School of Medicine in Bridgetown, Barbados, to create a program for more African American graduates to attend medical school. The schools announced the partnership Oct. 24.

Historically, for-profit health systems avoided graduate medical education (GME) programs based on the perception that teaching hospitals were costly and inefficient and the required academic credentials were unachievable for community-based hospitals, which comprise a significant portion of for-profit systems.