Physician assistants who grew up in underserved areas are more likely to practice in those areas after they finish their training than PAs who were raised in regions better served with medical [...]
Whether you’re suffering from a broken bone or a life-threatening illness, a trip to the emergency room is always a scary prospect. But what happens when an ER is faced with more patients than it [...]
Many specialists are balking at what they say are onerous new rules to get recertified, warning the demands will force some physicians out of practice at a time when the nation faces a shortage.
Lack of residency positions has forced many foreign-trained physicians to take up “survival jobs” – from delivering pizzas to driving a cab – instead of practicing medicine, finds a study.
While the Federal Communications Commission is not technically a healthcare entity, it is driving a key project that will ultimately facilitate the underlying infrastructure for telemedicine: [...]
The U.S. is expected to need 52,000 more primary care physicians by 2025, according to a study by the Robert Graham Center, which does family medicine policy research. But funding for teaching [...]
“… too few physicians are entering our field to meet society’s needs. The situation is worse than studies suggest. Some studies count all internal medicine training as “primary care,” even though [...]
Encouraging connected care can reduce costs by facilitating coordination of care, and moving care into lower-cost settings – from a hospital to a doctor’s office; or preventing emergency care [...]
The political alignment of physicians in the United States has shifted from predominantly Republican to predominantly Democrat, based in part on the larger number of women physicians and smaller [...]
The AMA hopes the new guidelines will help foster innovation in telemedicine, as well as help to protect the patient-physician relationship and promote improved care coordination and communication.
