Integration & Physician Issues

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. 

Oklahoma is experiencing a severe physician shortage in part due to a limited number of residency positions in the state, one medical leader told CBS affiliate KWTV.

Thanks to $160 million in donations, New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine is wiping out medical school debt for all its students who qualify for financial aid, the school announced Sept. 16. 

Seven physicians plan to break away from the CaroMont Medical Group to join Tryon Medical Partners, an independent practice formed by nearly 100 physicians who ditched Atrium Health last year, according to The Charlotte Observer.

California passed a bill Sept. 12 that will require clinicians to complete implicit bias training as part of their continuing education, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Bridgeport (Conn.) Hospital, part of the Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health system, created a new leadership role for physician wellness, according to the Connecticut Post. 

Most medical schools teach just nine hours of formalized pain education, according to Shravani Durbhakula, MD, a pain management specialist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. 

Emergency rooms in communities where surgeon availability is limited can be forced into a game of patient hot potato when an individual presents with a condition the hospital is unable to treat. When the hospital has to send a patient…

Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network created a new family medicine residency program designed "to stop burnout before it happens," the system announced Sept. 5.

To combat the physician shortage that all states are suffering from, Arizona is changing its licensing laws, according to CNBC.