According to a recent survey by The Medicus Firm, a physicians staffing solutions firm, government employment is unsurprisingly physicians' least favorite practice setting.
Integration & Physician Issues
According to an article in U.S News University, medical school selectivity and a lack of residency options is worsening the ongoing physician shortage.
The American Medical Association voted Wednesday to support innovative education models to address physician shortages in specialties that are undersupplied and areas that are underserved.
As the business models of providers and health insurers increasingly converge, could insurers’ use their ability to acquire physicians at above fair market value to their competitive advantage?
The American College of Physician Executives and The Joint Commission have created a four-day course that covers the skills needed to be effective as a CMO.
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Mission Health, the Mountain Area Health Education Center and a group of independent physicians have formed Mission Health Partners, a patient-centric and physician-governed network of clinicians, hospitals and other providers based in Asheville, N.C.
Gwinnett Medical Center of Lawrenceville, Ga., has announced the opening of the Strickland Family Medicine Center where its first class of five medical residents will begin seeing patients.
Physicians just want to be physicians. Their goal is to provide best-practice care that leads to best-practice outcomes. But idealism and reality are beginning to clash. Increasing complexity, the introduction of new technologies, growing metric-based performance accountability and a changing…
In line with national trends, Saint John's Medical Center of Jackson, Wyo., is hiring a several new physicians and surgeons, according to an article in the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
Emergency Services Professional Association, the private physicians group that staffs the Wichita, Kan.-based Wesley Medical Center emergency room, has been told they must become employees of EmCare, Wesley's ER staffing vendor, or lose their jobs at the hospital, according to…