Stockton, Calif.-based University of the Pacific is opening a $150 million medical school. The Pacific School of Medicine will be California’s first MD-granting institution outside of the state’s largest population centers, according to a May 28 university news release. There…
Integration & Physician Issues
The U.S. is projected to face a shortage of 70,610 primary care providers by 2038, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. The dashboard shows the projected supply and demand for five healthcare…
Vascular surgery is projected to have the highest shortages of physicians, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis found. The HRSA workforce simulation model assesses the adequacy of the nation’s projected workforce supply for 35…
Midcareer physicians report the highest levels of burnout and job stress and the lowest rates of job satisfaction and feeling valued, the American Medical Association found. The 2025 AMA Organizational Biopsy surveyed nearly 19,000 physicians across 38 states and 106…
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has expanded the state’s professional loan repayment program to offer physicians up to $300,000 in loan forgiveness. The expanded program allows full- and part-time physicians to receive $75,000 per year in student debt relief…
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Minnesota is the top-paying state for four physician specialties when adjusted for cost of living. Becker’s used the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics salary data, released May 15, to determine the hourly pay rate by state and used 2025 cost-of-living…
A wave of new medical schools has opened or broken ground across the U.S. in the last few years — an expansion driven by a projected physician shortage that the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates could reach 86,000 by…
Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University, Medical Faculty Associates and King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services have reached a definitive agreement regarding a new academic affiliation arrangement for George Washington University Hospital and Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center. The deal…
Research suggests mid-career surgeons are more likely to leave clinical practice than those with more than 15 years or less than nine years of experience, according to a study published May 20 in the Journal of the American College of…
Fifty-nine percent of healthcare executives said in a recent survey that physician specialists are the most difficult clinical job to fill, but the specialty that is most difficult for systems varies by state. Hospitals and health systems are grappling with…