Integration & Physician Issues

Physician dissatisfaction is common today, with around 54 percent1 of physicians reporting at least one major symptom of burnout, which leads to disengaged care providers and lower productivity. In some cases, physicians with severe burnout leave the profession and on…

A recent study shows just half of the nation's top medical residencies have paid family leave policies, according to a report from WBUR, Boston's NPR station.

A recent article by CareCulture Health Partners discusses 9 issues hospitalists should discuss with emergency department counterparts. 

The president and CEO of Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System said the system's new policy placing hospitalists in charge of patient care has been largely misunderstood as distressing toward physicians, according to Fox 4 News.

A new Medscape survey shows physician support for assisted suicide is growing and sheds light on physician beliefs on other ethical issues.

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Subsidizing graduate medical education programs that favor primary care physicians is ineffective in growing ranks of PCPs, according to an analysis published by the Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank based in Washington, D.C. 

UNC Health Alliance — Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care's physician-led clinically integrated network — has worked tirelessly over the past few years to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care to patients as the industry transitions away from fee-for-service medicine to value-based…

Medscape surveyed more than 5,200 physicians in more than 29 specialties to discover how they feel about the ethical issues they face in the medical field.

A recent study found that standards introduced by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education led to a marginal increase in diversity in medical school admissions, according to Inside Higher Ed.