Integration & Physician Issues

While traditional MDs or DOs are typically referred to as "doctors," should scientists with PhDs refer to themselves in the same fashion?

Leadership at Norfolk-based Eastern Virginia Medical School said it would issue a probe into its past yearbooks after the recent controversy involving racist photographs allegedly of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, MD, CNN reports.

In a recent BMJ Open Quality journal article*, King’s College NHS Foundation Trust (London, UK) shares its path to a more unified electronic tool to document resuscitation decisions and treatment escalation plans.

Roughly 1 in 4 Florida healthcare practitioners failed to attend a mandatory two-hour continuing education course discussing proper opioid prescribing practices by the Jan. 31 deadline, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

After nodding off during an operation he was observing in the fall of 2015, Herbert Dardik, MD, who was 80 years old at the time, said hospital leadership immediately called on him to reduce his workload and undergo testing to…

To prevent against burnout, hospital leadership should prioritize "latitude," or the ability for providers to use their best judgement when delivering care, according to an analysis published on athenaInsight.

There are a lot of bundled payment programs, but the best known one is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Comprehensive Care Joint Replacement (CJR) program.

Nurses in the Milwaukee area are pushing for more security measures in the wake of a brutal attack that killed a 33-year-old Froedtert Hospital nurse Jan. 25, according to WTMJ-TV Milwaukee.

Twelve percent of physicians and 4 percent of nurses said it is acceptable to lie to patients about a medical error, according to recent Medscape poll.

The Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine of USC selected Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, to serve as the institution's first associate dean of social justice, USC Annenberg Media reports.