Integration & Physician Issues

Physicians and advanced practice providers had the greatest fall in employee engagement among healthcare workers in 2024, a Press Ganey report found. To figure out why, the American Hospital Association and Press Ganey partnered with C-suite leaders from seven healthcare…

Voice recognition and AI-driven ambient documentation tools can minimize administrative tasks and reduce busy clinicians’ documentation burdens, increasing both efficiency and clinician satisfaction. For these reasons, healthcare organizations are increasingly looking at and adopting these technologies to improve well-being and…

Leaders across the nation are noticing a new trend — physicians seem less willing and interested in taking on roles beyond their clinical work. Traditionally, physicians have balanced full-time clinical loads with extra responsibility as a leader or educator. “But…

The District of Columbia has the most physicians per 100,000 population, while Idaho has the fewest specialist physicians and Nevada has the fewest primary care physicians per 100,000, KFF data found. KFF used data from Redi-Data to find the number…

Most physician associates work in family medicine, according to the 2025 American Academy of Physician Associates Salary Survey. PAs specializing in primary care are more commonly found in nonmetro areas rather than in metro areas (43% versus 20%). Report authors…

Illinois College of Osteopathic Medicine is the first medical school to open in the city in 100 years — and will begin classes in fall 2026, the Chicago Sun Times reported June 2. The school, which is also the first-ever…

Hospitals and medical organizations are urging Congress to boost support for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program, which trains thousands of general pediatricians and specialists each year.  In late May, national groups representing hospitals and physicians — including the…

Graduates from top-rated medical schools are about 50% less likely to start their careers as physicians in resource-poor areas than graduates from lower-ranked schools, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. …

More physicians are joining hospital- or private equity-owned practices instead of independent groups, according to an American Medical Association analysis. The report found 42.2% of physicians were in private practice last year, which is an 18 percentage point drop from…

In the last seven months, the Medical Council of Canada has seen a 750% increase in the number of Americans creating accounts on its site to initiate the licensure process, NPR reported May 29. The number of American physicians seeking…