Jennifer Pratt, MD, spent over a year receiving chemotherapy at St. Paul-based Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota when she was 11 years old, and 20 years later, she works as a physician at the same hospital, according to CNN.
Integration & Physician Issues
Roughly 39 percent of female residents who had at least one pregnancy during residency said they had considered leaving their programs, while 30 percent said they would advise female medical students against pursuing a career in surgery, according to a…
Nationally renowned pediatric heart surgeon Charles Fraser Jr., MD, will join the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, the institution said in a statement March 19.
ASCs and hospitals have long struggled with the problem of providing one standard of care to each and every patient.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore was ranked the No. 1 nursing school at which to earn a master's degree in nursing, according to U.S. News & World Report's "Best Nursing Schools" for 2019.
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The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine named Henri R. Ford, MD, dean of the medical school, the institution announced March 20.
The rise of healthcare consumerism has significantly elevated the importance of patient satisfaction.
The FDA published a notice stating its intent to collect information to learn more about how pharmaceutical and opioid manufacturers' targeted marketing toward physicians influences their decision-making, according to a notice posted in the Federal Register March 15.
Roughly 13.5 percent of physicians said they planned to look for nonclinical jobs in healthcare within the next one to three years, according to a 2016 survey by the Physicians Foundation.
This year, the National Resident Matching Program witnessed a record high 37,103 applicants submitting program choices for a total of 33,167 residency positions, the most ever offered on Match Day, the NRMP announced March 16.