In an Oct. 3 opinion article published in The Wall Street Journal, two executives at New York City-based NYU Langone Health said the Liaison Committee on Medical Education's method of accrediting medical schools is "outdated, expensive and misguided."
Integration & Physician Issues
More women physicians are entering high-paying specialty fields, a recent study found.
More physicians are seeking out specialty training as treatment options for obesity expand.
Thirty-seven percent of physicians said private payers influence treatment decisions "quite a bit" or "a great deal," a recent Medscape report found.
Healthcare providers today are facing a daunting reality: a deluge of clinical data amidst rising patient demand and a shortage of clinicians. The transition from paper charts to digitized records has generated a massive amount of patient data, yet a…
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Core Clinical Partners Over the last 20 years, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)—Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs)–have become fully integrated into most aspects of healthcare. This transition happened fluidly in primary care, Emergency Medicine, and across many specialties but…
Primary care physicians are showing a greater interest in developing expertise in cancer survivorship — a trend some systems are leaping on.
Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health has created five endowed chairs to support senior clinicians with dual appointments at the health system and its primary academic partner, UMass Chan Medical School, focusing on the advancements these faculty leaders can make on…
The American Medical Association has responded to two letters sent by the American Academy of Physician Associates asking the AMA to end its "scope creep" campaign against advanced practice providers.
Both physician recruiting and compensation have become more competitive as market disruptors have entered the field, according to AMN Healthcare's "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives," published Aug. 5