According to the latest data available, heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States.1 Because it’s such a large burden on the country’s healthcare system, we need to ensure that all healthcare professionals are working together to…
Integration & Physician Issues
New York City-based Albert Einstein College of Medicine is partnering with City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy to offer a combined medical and master's of public health degree.
Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is organizing its clinical enterprises into a statewide health system, called UAMS Health, the university announced Oct. 8.
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health affiliated with the 23-physician Concorde Medical Group, a multispecialty group with seven locations in Manhattan.
Thirty-four medical residents were forced to relocate after Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, W.Va., closed its doors Sept. 4, according to The Intelligencer.
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The University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis is piloting a two-year "house system" for third- and fourth-year medical students, in a program Minnesota Daily likens to the Hogwarts houses in Harry Potter.
Physicians were once "America's quintessential Republicans," but industry and workforce changes, among other trends, have produced what The Wall Street Journal calls a "historic shift" to medical professionals supporting the Democratic Party.
Emergency department physicians at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) rushed a woman to trauma care after she presented to the ED with panic attack symptoms and zombie makeup on her face, according to FOX 2 Detroit.
Since 2018, 278 physicians and physician assistants were disciplined by the North Carolina Medical Board, according to a CBS 17 investigation.
Less than a third (30.2 percent) of internal medicine residents were women in 1991. Twenty-five years later, still less than half (43.2 percent) of internal medicine residents were women, according to a research letter published by JAMA Internal Medicine.