Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is adding on leadership from nearby Intermountain Health to guide the development of its newly announced medical school.

At Phoenix Children's, leaders are taking note of a growing trend in the subspeciality space. 

Both the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases in hospitalized patients remain prominent clinical challenges and are associated with a substantial financial burden for healthcare systems. This is particularly true in the case of sepsis and septic shock.

Twelve physician groups expressed their "profound objection" to Humana's classification of a spinal procedure as "unproven" in a letter to the healthcare insurer.

Internal medicine represents the largest primary care specialty, with 41.4% of all primary care physicians practicing in this field, according to new data from KFF.

Residency unions have grown in prominence, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unions can provide resident physicians collective bargaining power and the ability to advocate for improved working conditions. Although no study has demonstrated improvement in resident happiness, burnout, and job satisfaction after unionization, the number of institutions having unions representing their residents are growing. While these unions offer several benefits, there are also significant downsides to surgical specialties, as the ‘one size fits all’ model does not always allow for differences in training. 

The emergency medicine specialty is poised to develop its own platform to handle residency applications, rather than rely on the Electronic Residency Application Service, Medpage Today reported Oct. 9.

From patients who want to be cryopreserved to the matter of whether physicians are obligated to take Medicaid patients, Medscape found physicians have mixed reactions to a number of "hot topics" in medicine.

Arizona State University selected Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth as its primary clinical affiliate for its upcoming ASU's School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering.

The Liaison Committee of Medical Education has responded to an opinion piece published Oct. 3 in The Wall Street Journal that claimed the medical school education process is "outdated, expensive and misguided."

New England's first physician-only EMS response team launched in Maine, ABC affiliate WABI reported Oct. 7.

In an Oct. 3 opinion article published in The Wall Street Journal, two executives at New York City-based NYU Langone Health said the Liaison Committee on Medical Education's method of accrediting medical schools is "outdated, expensive and misguided."

More women physicians are entering high-paying specialty fields, a recent study found.

More physicians are seeking out specialty training as treatment options for obesity expand.

Thirty-seven percent of physicians said private payers influence treatment decisions "quite a bit" or "a great deal," a recent Medscape report found.

Healthcare providers today are facing a daunting reality: a deluge of clinical data amidst rising patient demand and a shortage of clinicians. The transition from paper charts to digitized records has generated a massive amount of patient data, yet a staggering 97% remains untapped. This represents a significant missed opportunity for improving care and outcomes.

Core Clinical Partners Over the last 20 years, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)—Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs)–have become fully integrated into most aspects of healthcare. This transition happened fluidly in primary care, Emergency Medicine, and across many specialties but Hospital Medicine has long struggled with how to maintain quality while also gaining the cost savings that APPs offer. In our experience, Hospital Medicine programs are also the most likely not to be using APPs at all.

Primary care physicians are showing a greater interest in developing expertise in cancer survivorship — a trend some systems are leaping on.

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health has created five endowed chairs to support senior clinicians with dual appointments at the health system and its primary academic partner, UMass Chan Medical School, focusing on the advancements these faculty leaders can make on patient care.

The American Medical Association has responded to two letters sent by the American Academy of Physician Associates asking the AMA to end its "scope creep" campaign against advanced practice providers.