Healthcare worker burnout reached 40 percent in January, up from 32 percent in 2019, a new study from researchers at Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health found. 

Among surveyed pediatricians, 1 in 5, or 20 percent, indicated plans to leave their job in the next year, and nearly half of those considering leaving in the next five years indicated plans to leave medicine altogether, according to a new report from McKinsey.

Tammy Lundstrom, MD, has always known she wanted to work in healthcare. Since joining Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health in April 2018 as senior vice president and chief medical officer, she has been able to continually meet two of her core professional goals: to help others and never stop learning.

Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital will soon be the eighth trauma center in the U.S. to serve as a training site for physicians and nurses serving on Army trauma teams, WGCL-TV reported Sept. 19. 

A declaration from the White House that the COVID-19 pandemic is over is not sitting well with physicians, who say the nation's current death rate and high transmission signal otherwise. 

The patient has always been at the center of Aimee Becker's, MD, career. She has served as Madison, Wis.-based UW Health's chief medical officer since August 2018, where she's led the system through the countless challenges presented by COVID-19. 

In commemoration of National Physicians Suicide Awareness Day, The Physicians Foundation, Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation, and #FirstRespondersFirst collaborated to raise awareness and promote fundamental changes in how society views physician mental health and burnout rates, according to a Sept. 15 news release.

Physicians' emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scores were worse in 2021 than in 2020, according to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings on Sept. 13. 

Female physicians face higher levels of burnout than their male counterparts, according to four surveys referenced in a Sept. 14 article on the American Medical Association's website. 

Burnout among primary care physicians is "a symptom" of a bigger issue: the need for sustainable careers, wrote Timothy Hoff, PhD, for Harvard Business Review Sept. 13.

The Perelman School of Medicine at the Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania launched a new four-year palliative care program, it said in an email to Becker's Sept. 12.

Residency applicants from historically excluded racial groups are matched in competitive specialties at lower rates than their white and Asian peers, according to a recent study. 

Many states temporarily waived or relaxed scope of practice rules for physician assistants during the pandemic to expand access to care. Now, PAs are pushing for those changes to become permanent, Medscape reported Sept. 9.

New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine received a $61.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Sept. 9 to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center, it said in an email to Becker's.

New tool will help organizations engage with health workers in need of support following a traumatic event

Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center has decided not to follow through with a family practice residency program with Family Health Centers, also in Orangeburg, The Times and Democrat reported Sept. 8. 

Creative solutions will be required to expand the talent pipeline of physicians in the U.S., Heidi Chumley, MD, dean of Ross University School of Medicine in Miramar, Fla., and head of Adtalem Global Education's Academic Council, said during a recent episode of the "Becker's Healthcare Podcast." 

The University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora named Jay Lemery, MD, as its inaugural endowed chair in climate medicine Sept. 8. It is the first position of its kind in the nation. 

The number of current and future osteopathic physicians in the U.S. is growing significantly, Medscape reported Sept. 8.

Physicians are turning to peers for help treating COVID-19 patients amid the absence of detailed federal guidance, Politico reported Sept. 7.