Delegates representing the nation's osteopathic physicians and medical students have voted to support the American Osteopathic Association Board of Trustee's decision to pursue a single graduate medical education accreditation system.
Integration & Physician Issues
A bill signed into law in Missouri Thursday allows medical school graduates to practice medicine before starting their residencies, according to a KCUR report.
Here are seven statistics on physicians' employment and ownership status, according to a survey by Jackson Healthcare, a healthcare staffing company.
In a July 15 webinar hosted by Surgical Directions, the consulting firm's president and CEO Jeff Peters discussed how hospitals can compete with ambulatory surgery centers in their markets for physicians and case volume.
In Dallas, a patient can pay up to 23 times more than necessary for a lipid panel, according to a recent study by Castlight Health, a leading provider of enterprise healthcare cloud software.
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Six strategies to build strong physician-administrator partnerships
Some nurse practitioners in Kentucky are now able to prescribe routine medications without a physician's involvement, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly employing physicians, which makes it vital for healthcare organizations to understand valuations of physician employment contracts.
Physician burnout has become a very real and common phenomenon impacting nearly half of all physicians in practice and 75 percent of residents-in-training, according to an article by Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, Sanders Clinician Scholar and associate professor of psychiatry and…
The number of primary care physicians employed by hospitals increased from 10 percent in 2013 to 20 percent in 2014, according to a Jackson Healthcare survey of physicians.