New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine is home to some of the brightest minds in medicine — and houses 2,200-plus brain specimens that were once stored beneath one of the medical school's student dorms, STAT News reports.
Integration & Physician Issues
Hospitals and physicians are preparing to survive in an environment that holds them more accountable for the quality of care they provide; however, throughout the transition providers must also focus on current operations embedded in volume-based incentives.
In the past decade, the number of applicants to U.S. medical schools increased by approximately 30 percent, while acceptance rates have simultaneously declined, according to admissions data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Researchers and academics are increasingly competing to submit their work to "predatory journals" — journals with titles similar to existing publications that many well-meaning academics are effectively tricked into, or sometimes voluntarily submit content for, according to a recent The…
There are many factors that have contributed to physicians seeking employment in the past, including the brief attempt at health system consolidation in the 1990’s, the push towards managed care, and ultimately physician fear of getting boxed out of patient…
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Recent incidents of immigration officials entering hospitals and detaining or apprehending individuals as young as 10 years old have made people who have entered the U.S. without legal permission more hesitant to seek care at hospitals and clinics, according to…
Washington, D.C.-based University Medical Center selected The GW Medical Faculty Associates, also in Washington D.C., to oversee the hospital's emergency room, UMC officials said Sunday, according to The Washington Post.
Great Falls, Mont.-based Benefis Health System officials said the hospital will display a grizzly bear linked to the killing of 13 cows earlier this year, according to USA Today.
With a decades-old law capping tuition at public medical schools, Texas officials aim to minimize the state's physician shortage by encouraging students to come back to Texas after their undergraduate experience, or stay in Texas for medical school, according to…
Physicians at Boston-based MassGeneral Hospital for Children were faced with a tough decision last year after a pair of conjoined twins arrived at the hospital seeking an operation in which only one of the newborns would survive, CBS News reports.