A group of Cleveland Clinic researchers determined roughly 35 percent of physicians surveyed at one health system met the criteria for burnout, according to a research letter published Feb. 19 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Roughly six in 10 physicians said they believe their education from graduate school was worth the cost of their degree, according to Gallup poll published Feb. 16.
John Serocki, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who practiced at Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center and San Diego-based Scripps Memorial Hospital, died Wednesday in a small plane crash commuting to work, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
In the aftermath of the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., victims of the incident began streaming into Pompano Beach, Fla.-based Broward Health North. However, unbeknownst to the medical staff, one of those patients reportedly injured during the shooting…
The San Bernardino-based California University of Science and Medicine School of Medicine, which was founded in part by Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare, received preliminary accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the health system announced Feb. 20.
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The Liaison Committee on Medical Education granted the Kalamazoo-based Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine full accreditation, the university announced Feb. 19.
While inappropriate behavior and allegations of sexual misconduct have spurred a reckoning in Hollywood and in other industries, medicine has yet to have its #MeToo moment, NBC News reports.
The average signing bonus for physicians reached an all-time high in 2017, growing to nearly $30,000, according to The Medicus Firm's annual Physician Placement report.
The Fort Worth-based University of North Texas Health Sciences Center agreed to pay the federal government more than $13 million to settle claims the university inaccurately measured, tracked and paid researchers involved in National Institutes of Health-funded projects at the…
4 nurses from hospitals nationwide describe what it felt like to provide care during a mass shooting
Last week's mass school shooting in Florida is just one of several instances in recent memory denoting the increasing frequency with which such events have begun to occur. There have been roughly 97 mass shootings in the past 35 years,…