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.
Integration & Physician Issues
Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital closed and consolidated two primary care offices into Hudson Falls (N.Y.) Medical Center in what appears to be a diversion from its state-approved closure plan, according to The Post-Star.
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Va.) and its clinics are dealing with a shortage of civilian physicians amid a dispute involving companies contracted to staff the hospital, according to The Virginian-Pilot.
Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, part of Ascension Wisconsin, is building out a neurosurgery program to become more competitive with other hospitals in the area, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Annapolis, Md.-based Anne Arundel Medical Center will begin a three-year internal medicine residency program.
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Neha Vyas, MD, has spent more than two decades practicing as a family physician in Cleveland. In that time, she's picked up several healthy habits from her own patients, which she outlined in an op-ed for U.S. News & World…
Nearly 100 physicians split from Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health last year to form an independent medical group called Tryon Medical Partners. Now, more physicians are joining the group, according to The Charlotte Observer.
Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital plans to maintain labor and delivery services at the Stuart, Fla.-based facility, despite the planned departure of its OB-GYN physician group, reports USA Today affiliate TC Palm.
The American Medical Association recognized 22 healthcare organizations for their efforts to address the root causes of physician burnout.
In a recent publication from Philips, Henk van Houten explains the need and ability for prostate cancer, the second most common cancer among men worldwide, treatment to be optimized and individualized.