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Integration & Physician Issues

The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine launched a new campaign Feb. 12 to motivate more medical students to pursue a DO medical degree.

A joint investigation by The Wall Street Journal and PBS' "Frontline" found the Indian Health Service agency, run by HHS, has employed "a number of problem physicians," including a pedophile who was allowed to treat children for more than two…

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While prominent industry players have attributed widespread understaffing issues to a nursing shortage, some industry experts and recent research claim such a shortage does not exist, The Guardian reports.

Health professionals looking to obtain advanced degrees in pediatric cancer will have the chance to enroll in a master's program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., beginning in July, according to Fox 13 News.

Researcher Christopher Willoughby, PhD, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post that the controversy involving Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, MD, highlights the long history of "morbid racism" in U.S. medical schools.

A St. Louis-based SSM Health nurse and a group of other medical practitioners were on standby in case of a national disaster during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Feb. 6, according to KMOX News Radio 1120.

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