Integration & Physician Issues

Clinician burnout is a significant challenge for healthcare organizations, with the potential to negatively affect care quality and patient satisfaction.1,2 At the Becker's Hospital Review 10th Annual Meeting in Chicago, the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies sponsored an executive…

Some medical schools are beginning to incorporate curriculum on climate change in lectures and elective classes, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Nearly two-thirds of practicing physicians (65 percent) still have medical school debt, and just 10 percent of those physicians expect to pay it off in the next two years, according to a national survey of 500 physicians conducted by Weatherby…

Los Angeles Times' Soumya Karlamangla profiled the journey of Adam Litwin, MD, who recently passed his final board exam to become a physician two decades after doing jail time for impersonating a physician at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Professional coaching could help reduce emotional exhaustion and burnout symptoms among physicians, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found.

Driven by new technologies and beckoned by manmade threats to public health, medicine has reached a unique turning point that should compel physicians to organize as a single political force, according to a column published in The New Yorker by…

Researchers calculated a baseline measure of empathy among medical students, which could be used to assess future applicants' capacity for the soft skill, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.  

New York University Long Island School of Medicine on July 29 welcomed its first class of 24 students, all of whom were offered full-tuition scholarships.

NYC Health + Hospitals is expanding a primary care scheduling program to its ambulatory care practices after using it successfully at its Bellevue location in New York City to cut new patient wait times by 73 percent and to help…

  Medical residents at the closing Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia are scrambling to find new training positions and secure work visas — and avoid thousands of dollars in fees associated with breaking their apartment leases, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.