Networking with colleagues is physicians' most preferred job hunting method, whereas social media is much less utilized when searching for a practice, according to a survey from The Medicus Firm.
Integration & Physician Issues
New physician interns at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago get a three-day crash course in treating patients at intern "boot camp," a program recently profiled in The New York Times.
HealthCare Midwest, a multispecialty group with 80 care providers in Kalamazoo, Mich., is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Bronson Healthcare, a nonprofit, community-governed system also in Kalamazoo.
Wyoming had the lowest number of professionally active primary care physicians in 2012, according to State Health Facts, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Many hospitals are beginning to recruit physicians while they are still residents because of the physician shortage, according to a report in The National Law Review. Indeed, 52 percent of physician residents and fellows who graduated in 2013 had job…
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Pomona (Calif.) Valley Hospital Medical Center has launched a hospitalist program, according to an Inland Valley Daily Bulletin report.
Physicians make comments about patients' previous care and other physicians in nearly half of patient visits and the majority of those comments tend to be critical, potentially harming patient satisfaction, according to a survey from the Journal of Internal Medicine.
Compensation and reimbursement and work/life balance represent the most pressing career concerns for both practicing physicians and physicians in training, according to The Medicus Firm's 2013 "Physician Practice Preference & Relocation Survey."
The demand for family physicians has grown, which in turn has grown first-year guaranteed compensation for primary care physicians, according to an MGMA survey cited in an American Academy of Family Physicians report.
A new law in Hawaii has given $1.8 million to fund a primary care training program at Hilo (Hawaii) Medical Center, according to a Big Island Now report.