The American Medical Association has outlined a policy framework to address AI-generated deepfakes impersonating physicians. According to an April 29 press release shared with Becker’s, the framework, developed by the AMA Center for Digital Health and AI, establishes protections for…
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Philadelphia-based Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare will establish a regional medical school campus. The AtlantiCare Campus will host 40 medical students and is expected to accommodate third- and fourth-year rotating students, according to…
Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina is not just recruiting physicians, it’s recruiting physician’s families, as well. This is the strategy that ultimately brought Erik Summers, MD, chief medical officer, to the system. “My family was very settled in Winston-Salem…
Physicians are increasingly uncertain if their career choice was worth the debt they took on for training — and some of them would not choose medicine again under new federal caps on student loans, according to new data from Panacea…
Radiology and orthopedics tied for the specialties that lead to the highest net worth, an April 24 Medscape report found. Medscape’s 2026 “Physician Wealth and Debt Report” surveyed 5,916 physicians across more than 29 specialties between Sept. 5 and Dec.…
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The national shortage of primary care physicians will likely worsen without more daring, targeted strategies to bolster this workforce, according to an April 23 report from Trilliant Health. This workforce shortage is multifactorial. Primary care specialties, including family medicine, general…
As only 0.1% National Institutes of Health grants are awarded to osteopathic medicine colleges, a national association for such schools is advocating for a stronger research pipeline, according to a report published April 20. In a first-of-its-kind report, the American…
Columbia-based University of Missouri School of Medicine is expanding its Springfield campus into a four-year regional medical school. The campus, established in 2016 as a clinical site for 56 third- and fourth-year students, offers clinical rotations through partnerships with Springfield,…
New York City-based New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine has affiliated with the University of Guam, Guam Medical Hospital and Guam Regional Medical Center to train medical students, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported April 19. The medical…
Burnout among physicians is continuing to decline, but three specialties still have a burnout rate of more than 49%, an American Medical Association survey found. The AMA’s Organizational Biopsy, published April 16, surveyed nearly 19,000 physicians across 38 states and…