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Gender, relationship status, age linked to worse work-life integration for physicians
Amid the demands of today's healthcare environment, physicians at times must choose between prioritizing work or home responsibilities. And physicians who are women, single, age 35 years or older, and who work more hours and nights on call per week, have a particularly harder time with integration of these worlds, according to a study published May 27 in JAMA Network Open. -
Pandemic could drive more research on overtreatment, experts say
Healthcare delays during earlier waves of the COVID-19 pandemic are now allowing researchers to compare the outcomes of patients who had a certain treatment or procedure delayed or canceled to those who received their care on time — an important development for research on overtreatment, The Washington Post reported May 24. -
Dr. Mark Schuster on opening Kaiser Permanente's new med school during a pandemic
When Mark Schuster, MD, PhD, was named founding dean of Kaiser Permanente's new medical school nearly four years ago, he didn't expect to open it at the height of a global pandemic. -
Medical schools overestimate number of graduates who specialize in primary care, experts say
Many medical school graduates who complete their residency in primary care switch into different specialities later. That makes medical schools' estimates of its graduates entering family medicine largely inaccurate, NPR reported May 18. -
Why a pediatrician wants to quantify childhood trauma
Nadine Burke Harris, MD, a pediatrician and California's first surgeon general, is among those raising awareness about a health assessment to quantify adverse childhood experiences, The Washington Post reported May 15. -
Physicians turn to social media for professional advancement, survey finds
While both female and male physicians report using social media to build their professional networks, there are differences in how it benefits each gender, according to survey findings published May 13 in JAMA Network Open. -
Is the term 'patient' outdated? Why this physician thinks so
It may be time to remove the term "patient" from the healthcare lexicon, a paramedic-turned-physician wrote in an op-ed published in STAT. -
Physicians see fewer recruiting offers
Fewer jobs are being offered to physicians in their final year of training in 2021 compared to previous years — likely because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey released May 11. -
Dartmouth accuses 17 medical students of online cheating
Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth has investigated several students at its Geisel School of Medicine for allegedly cheating while taking exams online, according to a May 7 report in the Valley News. -
New 3-year residency at Washington hospital focused on critical-access care
A new family medicine residency program at Pullman (Wash.) Regional Hospital will focus on healthcare provided in a critical-access setting. -
Physicians will be tapped to get vaccine hesitant off the fence
The next obstacle for the White House and state health officials is getting more physicians involved in the nation's COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Politico reported May 10. -
Penn Medicine physician raises $500K to aid India's COVID-19 crisis
In just one week, Ruchika Talwar, MD, urologic surgery resident at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, raised nearly $500,000 to send India's hospitals supplies as the country battles the world's worst COVID-19 outbreak, CNN reported May 6. -
Most physicians didn't work in private practices last year, AMA analysis finds
Shifts away from physician-owned practices continued in 2020, with the share of physicians in private practices dropping below 50 percent for the first time since the American Medical Association began measuring the metric in 2012, according to the latest analysis released May 5 by the AMA. -
LSU Health pulls medical residents from VA hospital
New Orleans-based LSU Health Sciences Center pulled six medical residents from the intensive care unit of Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, La., according to ABC affiliate KTBS. -
Hospital-employed physicians more likely to order unneeded MRIs, study finds
Patients of physicians employed by hospitals are more likely to receive inappropriate referrals for diagnostic imaging, according to a study published May 3 in Health Affairs. -
Nashville medical school to be named after HCA co-founder
Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., will name its new college of medicine in honor of Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., MD, co-founder of HCA Healthcare and former U.S. senator, the university said May 3. -
Why are physicians leaving this North Carolina hospital? City seeks attorney general probe
Brevard, N.C., leaders are urging the state's attorney general to investigate why a flood of physicians have left rural Transylvania Regional Hospital, according to WLOS. -
'Call on me': Physicians call for larger role in next phase of vaccinations
As COVID-19 vaccine supply begins to catch up with demand in the U.S., local physicians are asking to play a larger role in the next phase of the vaccine rollout targeting hesitant populations, The Hill reported April 25. -
They're building it, hoping physicians will come
A nearly 60-year-old hospital in rural Kentucky said the facility's age is keeping physicians away, but it hopes a new facility will help address the issue, according to WAVE, an NBC-affiliated TV station in Louisville, Ky. -
Viewpoint: 5 strategies to address cognitive impairment among aging physicians
Aging physicians have a higher risk of cognitive impairment than their younger counterparts, and as more physicians work into later years, safeguards are needed to protect both patient safety and physician careers, according to a commentary published in the April issue of Neurology Clinical Practice.
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