A partnership with a medical school halfway across the country has supercharged the residency program at Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System. “BayCare already had a strong but modest academic foundation,” Stephanie Conners, BSN, RN, president and CEO of BayCare, told…
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Texas will become the 13th state to offer an alternative licensure pathway for experienced international physicians this September, The Dallas Morning News reported Aug. 13. House Bill 2038 — called the Doctor Act — will allow foreign-trained medical school graduates…
Internal medicine is the most in-demand physician specialty, according to Doximity’s “Physician Compensation Report 2025.” The report examines data from 37,000 physicians about compensation and workforce trends, and the firm examined data from tens of thousands of job postings on…
Lakeland-based Florida Polytechnic University and Winter Garden, Fla.-based Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine have partnered to create a medical degree program that cuts two years off the traditional timeline, Fox News reported Aug. 7. The accelerated Bachelor of Science and…
NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark., will waive some physicians’ medical school debt in exchange for a seven-year work commitment. In an effort to attract physicians in difficult-to-recruit specialties, NEA Baptist is offering to reimburse medical school debt with…
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The American College of Obstetricians has stopped accepting federal government funding, which supports its programs and contracts, the medical society confirmed to Becker’s on Aug. 1. “Recent changes in federal funding laws and regulations significantly impact ACOG’s program goals, policy…
Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota Medical School has opened a regional campus in St. Cloud in partnership with CentraCare Health, a St. Cloud-based system, according to the medical school’s Facebook page. The new campus represents the medical school’s first expansion in…
Primary care physicians are leaving fee-for-service Medicare programs faster than specialists, according to a recent study. The study, published July 18 in JAMA Health Forum, analyzed Medicare Part B claims filed between 2010 and 2024 for services provided by physicians.…
Surgeons are 56% more likely to die compared to physicians in other specialities, according to a study published July 30 in JAMA Surgery. Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, all based in Boston,…
Healthcare groups are warning that caps on federal loan limits for medical students passed under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could worsen the nation’s physician shortage. The legislation eliminates the federal Grad PLUS loan program and places a $200,000…