A new predictive analytics model could help medical schools increase the socio-economic diversity of students in their MD programs, Tiber Health, a global network of medical universities, found.
Integration & Physician Issues
The American College of Emergency Physicians has withdrawn a white paper from 2009 on "excited delirium," saying the term should not be used in civil or criminal cases.
Emergency medicine has the most active physicians of eight specialties studied in a recent Statista report.
All the states with the highest rate of physicians per 10,000 civilians are in the Northeast, according to a Statista report.
Thirty-nine percent of physicians surveyed in a new report said they have a side gig going, usually to earn some additional money.
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Fifty-one percent of clinicians prefer the recently revised professional title "physician associate" compared to 49 percent who prefer the original title of "physician assistant," according to new research from Barton Associates, a healthcare recruiting firm.
The Texas Hospital Association is pushing back against a bill on the state senate floor that was introduced this week that would prevent employers from enforcing COVID-19 vaccination policies.
While hospitals across the U.S. continue to develop and implement solutions for retention like nurse residency programs or other wellness initiatives, 48 percent of clinicians are "not at all" hopeful about the progress being made regarding staffing issues, respondents told…
Patient advocacy organizations have accused VA Loma Linda (Calif.) Health Care System of violating patient civil liberties by placing some veterans on involuntary psychiatric holds as a precondition for their transportation to a hospital, the Press-Telegram reported Oct. 8.
The 'doctor' title for advanced practitioners is not confusing patients, and it is time to end the "doctor-nurse game", Martha Libster, PhD, MSN, a psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist, said in an Oct. 8 opinion piece posted on Medpage…