Most medical residents view relationships with patients, being good at what they do and finding answers as the most rewarding parts of their jobs, according to the Medscape Residents Salary & Debt Report 2014.
Integration & Physician Issues
Lancaster, Ohio-based Fairfield Memorial Hospital encountered an issue with its specialist physicians after implementing a hospitalist program: The specialists believed the program was a way to lessen the emergency department on-call burden for primary care physicians, and they wanted the…
The median four-year cost to attend medical school for the class of 2013 was $278,455 at private schools and $207,868 at public schools, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
11 metrics for measuring physician alignment
According to a new physician shortage measurement tool, general internal medicine patient care full-time equivalents are projected to decline by 12 percent between 2011 and 2030.
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A bill introduced by Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would extend the Teaching Health Center program that helps train medical residents in rural and underserved communities and then replace the THC with a permanent funding stream later.
Family medicine physicians are still the most sought-after specialty — for the eighth year in a row, healthcare staffing firm Merritt Hawkins found family medicine physicians to be the most in-demand clinician specialty based on staffing requests the firm receives.
Even though all physician assistants must practice under the supervision of a physician, their scope of practice varies from state to state.
When asked about the most important factor in distinguishing a high-quality physician, 59 percent of Americans focus on physician-patient relationships and personality, according a recent study by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
DHG Healthcare, a company that provides advisory and accounting services to the healthcare community, released a report clearly defining clinical integration and the industry forces driving its popularity.