Integration & Physician Issues

High healthcare costs are eroding patients' relationships with physicians, according to Marty Makary, MD, a surgeon and professor at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.

The board of the American Academy of Dermatology unanimously voted to oust Scott Dinehart, MD, after he created an organization to board certify physician assistants who work in dermatology, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports. 

Graduate medical education (GME) office for an academic medical center (AMC) or teaching hospital is responsible for maintaining ACGME accreditation of its residency and fellowship programs as well as fulfilling a variety of other responsibilities.

Academic medicine should follow the lead of the National Institutes of Health and implement term limits to open up leadership positions for women and minorities, write three female physician researchers in a commentary for The New England Journal of Medicine. 

The University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque will shut down its neurosurgery residency program on June 30, 2020, after losing accreditation, according to the Albuquerque Journal. 

Harris A. Berman, dean of Boston-based Tufts University School of Medicine, is retiring at the end of the year.

California lawmakers awarded University of California, Davis, $3.85 million to develop a training program to prepare medical professionals to have conversations with patients about guns.

Detroit-based Wayne State University sent termination notices to 110 pediatricians on Oct. 14. The pediatricians, who work for the university's medical school and Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, can either join WSU's pediatrics group or lose their jobs with…

Most medical groups (86 percent) feel regulatory burden has increased in the past year, with 77 percent pointing to CMS' Quality Payment Program as "very" or "extremely" burdensome, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Annual Regulatory Burden Survey." 

Nearly three-fourths of female physicians with children said they did not receive an adequate amount of maternity leave, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.