The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the University of Buffalo (N.Y.) Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences' plan to reintroduce a medical residency program in radiology, according to Buffalo Business First.
Integration & Physician Issues
The proportion of male African-American medical school graduates reached 57 percent in 1986, but the rate had dropped to 35 percent by 2015, according to the science journal Nature.
Members of the American Academy of Physician Assistants have called on the organization to investigate the feasibility of changing the discipline's professional title, the AAPA said in a statement released May 22.
Clalit Health Services (Tel Aviv, Israel) is the largest of Israel's four health service organizations, which administer health care services and funding for their members. Almost 20 years ago, Clalit Health Services leaders began thinking about how best to share…
A recent blog post and podcast episode by Patrick Yoder, CEO and co-founder of LogicStream Health, talks with Dr. Richard Priore, CEO of Excelsior Healthcare Group, about the importance of partnering with physicians in the business case for healthcare.
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Forty-one percent of patients identified the quality of care they receive as the most important factor in selecting a primary care physician, according to recent report by business management and consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
While hospital-employed physician rates climbed to 32.6 percent in 2016, physicians are seemingly transitioning back to independent practice — 72 percent of physicians identified as practitioners at independent or physician-led group practices in 2017, according to a recent Black Book…
Five former Los Angeles-based University of Southern California students filed two separate lawsuits against the university and former university gynecologist George Tyndall, MD, May 21.
Clinician burnout is one of the greatest challenges facing the healthcare industry today, but applying human-centered design to clinical IT experiences may be able to reduce that burnout.
First-year medical school enrollment has increased 29 percent since the 2002-03 school year, according to a recent report released by the Association of American Medical Colleges.