Health systems still size most physician panels against a long-standing benchmark of 1,800 to 2,000 patients, but that number is probably wrong, according to a July 9 Kaufman Hall analysis. The benchmark, usually paired with simple age and gender adjustments,…
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There are only 16 universities with a formal military-to-medical school pipeline in the U.S., but more medical schools are recognizing the importance of recruiting veterans into medicine. In May, Greenville, N.C.-based East Carolina University became the latest school to open…
Dermatology is the happiest specialty, while general surgery is the least happy, a July 9 Medscape report found. Medscape’s “How Doctors Are Really Doing: Physician Mental Health & Well-Being Report 2026” surveyed 5,159 physicians across more than 29 specialties between…
Electrophysiology is one of the fastest-growing subspecialties across the nation, hospital leaders told Becker’s, thanks to a number of factors that are changing the field. Electrophysiology is a unique specialty within cardiology due to how many areas of patient care…
The District of Columbia, New York and Massachusetts have the most physicians per 100,000 residents, while Mississippi, Alabama and Nevada have the fewest, according to Bureau of Labor statistics and Census data. Becker’s used the bureau’s latest data — 2025…
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Iowa hospitals, clinics and other healthcare providers offering medication abortions must now follow new in-person prescribing requirements under a law that took effect July 1. The law, signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds May 19, requires providers to see patients in…
Young adults are far less likely than older generations to maintain an ongoing relationship with a primary care physician, a new survey shows. The poll was commissioned by Columbus-based OSU Wexner Medical Center and conducted by the survey and market…
Some surgical assistants are earning 25 times what the surgeons make thanks to arbitration laws, The New York Times reported June 29. Here is what to know. 1. Surgeons and surgical assistants have been capitalizing on the arbitration rule inside…
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa HHS secured approximately $49.5 million in federal funding to expand physician residency training programs across all of the state’s 13 teaching hospitals. The expansion was approved by CMS on June 5 to support the…
Bentonville, Ark.-based Heartland Whole Health Institute has launched a statewide Graduate Medical Education Technical Assistance Center aimed at improving access to care in rural and underserved communities. Four things to know: 1. The institute, founded in 2019 by philanthropist and…