What MD graduates of 2023 want hospitals to know
After four years of medical school — three of which were during a global pandemic — 2023 graduates are preparing to enter their residency placements with several things on their minds: mental health, promoting equity, care quality and concerns about the industry at times prioritizing profits over people.Tampa General performs its 1st living donor transplant
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has successfully completed the first living donor liver transplant in its history, a May 23 press release announced.The top 5 medical services Americans are skipping
Financial uncertainty and the high cost of medical expenses have caused many people to forgo medical treatment, a Federal Reserve report released in May found.Viewpoint: Wage inequities are hurting the medical profession
A strike of more than 150 resident physicians is highlighting an issue that can no longer be ignored in medicine: wage disparity, Kevin Pho, MD, an internal medicine physician and founder of KevinMD, wrote on the website May 22.Georgia university plans 3rd medical school campus
Augusta University's Medical College of Georgia is planning to open a four-year medical school in Savannah to increase access to physician education and training in the state.Buffalo, Michigan State med students find solidarity after mass shootings
Deans from the University at Buffalo in New York and Michigan State University in Lansing coordinated a lunch for 18 medical students to discuss their experiences navigating the stressors of med school and the mass shootings at both schools in the last year, UBNow reported May 22.How some physicians keep practicing after retirement
Physicians like Ved Gossain, MD, are stepping out of retirement for a few hours a week to provide specialty care to rural residents, according to a May 17 article posted on the American Medical Association website.The Leapfrog grades of hospitals hit with immediate jeopardy warnings
Eight of 10 hospitals in the U.S. that have faced a possible loss of Medicare or Medicaid funding from CMS in the last year due to immediate jeopardy situations have regained compliance. However, the hospitals facing these situations are not always ones that are graded poorly in other methodologies.Physicians exit Ascension hospital amid transgender care probe
Dell Children's Medical Center is parting ways with the physicians who staffed its adolescent medicine clinic amid a state probe into the hospital's transgender care practices, the Austin-based hospital confirmed to Becker's May 15.Historically black medical schools call for more funding
Additional federal funding is needed to train more Black physicians and diversify the healthcare workforce, the leaders of several historically Black medical schools said during a May 12 roundtable discussion at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.The top specialities using AI algorithms, per the FDA
Artificial intelligence algorithms and machine learning technology have increased in medical devices in the last several years, and some specialties are taking to the trend faster than others.Socioeconomic diversity of medical school students has dropped: Study
The percentage of U.S. medical school applicants and graduates coming from higher-income households is increasing, according to a study published May 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.More 'Code Green' calls spur Virginia system to host violence prevention fair
Chesapeake (Va.) Regional Healthcare held a "Healthcare Violence Prevention Fair" to teach workers de-escalation tips in early May after an increase in Code Greens, according to ABC affiliate WVEC.Montana governor vetoes state hospital reporting law due to 'patient privacy'
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte vetoed a bill that would require Warm Springs-based Montana State Hospital to report all cases of neglect, abuse, injuries and death to a watchdog group, Montana Public Radio reported May 11.Stanford Medicine Children's gets top rare disease designation
Stanford Medicine Children's Health in Palo Alto, Calif., has been named a Rare Disease Center of Excellence by the National Organization for Rare Disorders, according to a May 11 news release.Iowa allows PAs to practice without a supervising physician
Iowa will no longer require that a physician assistant be supervised by a physician to practice medicine.What a study of emergency medicine physicians' tweets uncovered
An analysis of more than 198,000 tweets from emergency medicine physicians found an increase in language around anxiety, stress and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.DEA shuts down South Carolina physician's national ketamine practice
南卡罗来纳医生建立一个全国性的practice prescribing ketamine to patients with mental illnesses was shut down by the Drug Enforcement Administration, The Washington Post reported May 10.The specialties most, least likely to be sued: AMA
An American Medical Association analysis found 31.2 percent of physicians in 2022 reported they had previously been sued.AI may pose 'existential threat,' physicians warn in BMJ
Lacking proper regulation, artificial intelligence poses a threat to human health, a group of physicians and public health experts warned in an analysis published May 9 in BMJ Global Health.
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