Integration & Physician Issues

A group of nutrition and education experts, including physicians at Dallas-based UT Southeastern Medical Center, has issued a proposal for medical schools to incorporate competencies on healthy eating counseling into their curriculum. 

Pittsburgh-based UPMC plans to phase out the internal medicine residency program at McKeesport (Pa.) hospital, a spokesperson for the health system confirmed to Becker's.

The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, which opened in July 2020 in Pasadena, Calif., graduated its first class in May and received full accreditation in June. This milestone coincided with the appointment of John Dalrymple, MD, as…

Michael E. DeBakey, MD, the late legendary heart surgeon, was known for making his residents and fellows sleep in the cardiac ICU at Houston Methodist Hospital when they had patients on the unit. 

CMS recently awarded more than a 100 teaching hospitals in 33 states with new Medicare-supported graduate medical education positions. 

The long-standing federal cap on Medicare-supported residency slots coupled with ongoing economic challenges faced by hospitals could spell trouble for the nation's physician shortage.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is exploring an overhaul of Medicare's physician payment model and looking to shift health incentives toward primary care and prevention, The Washington Post reported Nov. 21.

Greenville, N.C.-based East Carolina University broke ground on its $265 million Brody School of Medicine, Reflector reported Nov. 22.

Midwives and family medicine physicians are no longer allowed to deliver babies at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Ill., according to WBEZ, a Chicago-based radio station. 

Ten primary care physicians at a Brigham and Women's Hospital practice, part of Boston-based Mass General Brigham, are resigning and joining a practice affiliated with Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health, The Boston Globe reported Nov. 20.