April 29th 2025
New ACP position paper outlines how unions, collective bargaining and protests could help doctors improve health care access and quality for patients.
April 23rd 2025
Discover how trust impacts your medical practice's success and learn to address foundational issues for lasting solutions in this insightful podcast episode.
April 10th 2025
Growth doesn't just depend on what you're doing — it also depends on what you're not seeing.
April 9th 2025
Data for 2023 show decrease from 2021, but doctors still experience more burnout than other workers, survey finds.
April 4th 2025
Strategies to reduce physician attrition were discussed in a session at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 in New Orleans.
Primary care left gutted by COVID-19 pandemic
Health care is busy and getting busier, but there are possible solutions that could help physicians and other clinicians, according to a new report.
Federal grant to train more primary care physicians for rural areas
Kentucky medical school scores $16 million to enhance, develop programs.
Asking clinicians to enhance their medical coding skills, another necessary task
Coding skills do not inherently equate to clinical competence, and vice versa, but both are necessary.
Medical residents are feeling burned out too
New survey shows significant increase in burnout symptoms just since 2021
Cardiovascular societies seek to form their own certification board
Move is the latest sign of unhappiness with ABIM’s MOC process
Recruiting hard-to-hire physicians
Health care organizations must adopt a proactive and personalized approach to making physicians feel heard, valued, and interested.
First combined MD/artificial intelligence degree program launched
Program aims to train doctors to apply artificial intelligence to improve diagnostic and treatment outcomes
Exclusive Physician Burnout survey results: Are things getting better?
How many physicians feel burned out? And why? Check out our 2023 Physician Burnout and Wellness Survey results.
Addressing drivers of health: Becoming efficient and effective
Take 5 offers reliable screening, physicians can offer resources.
Changes in medical licensing exam create new problems
At-risk students and diversity both suffer from changing the first part of the exam to pass/fail
Practice Academy Summer 2023: Passive Income for Medical Professionals: Exploring Private REITs as a Smart Investment
Practice Academy Summer 2023: Taking Control of Your Financial Future: A Physician’s Playbook for Financial Wellness
Practice Academy Summer 2023: Private Markets, Medical Professionals, and a New Horizon of Opportunity
Independent practice is the secret to surviving and thriving in primary care
Staying independent allows doctors to improve on what they do best by enabling them to be nimble and innovative while focusing on satisfaction of patients and staff.
Reducing the risk of violence against health care workers: Effective solutions needed
Violence against health care workers has almost become a routine, if frightening, aspect of their jobs.
A physician’s guide to a mentally healthy workplace
With stressful conditions increasing and mental health decreasing, what is a primary care physician to do?
Majority of independent practice owners say the industry is threatened
Growth is still anticipated for many, despite challenges
Addressing drivers of health: An introduction to Let’s Take 5
Physicians Foundation President Gary Price, MD, MBA, discusses drivers of health.
5 ways to get the best physician employment contract
There are simple tools that can help us achieve the best employment contract.
How satisfied are American primary care doctors compared with other wealthy countries?
Primary care physicians in the U.S. can take comfort from knowing that PCPs elsewhere share their feelings.
Doctor demographics: Data from the Federation of State Medical Boards
Census reveals information about physician workforce across the United States.
Navigating a medical board investigation: From inception to hearings
How to mitigate or prevent public discipline by a medical board.
Concierge medicine opens its doors wider than ever to physicians seeking positive change
Surge in membership medicine opportunities fueled by administrative challenges, reimbursement reductions, operating cost escalation and retiring concierge physicians.
Doctor salaries under fire after Washington Post report
Data analysis by the paper showed an average physician salary of $350,000
2023 Physician Report: The latest physician salary, productivity and malpractice cost data
Check out our exclusive and latest physician survey data.
Patients and provider stress levels still high
Even with the pandemic no long dominating their lives, both doctors and their patients struggle with stress
Pathways to concierge medicine
While the historical pathway for a physician to move into the concierge medicine model was to work with a management company to convert their existing, independent practice, things have changed.
How the current state of the health care system is driving patients — and physicians — to concierge medicine
Many physicians are transitioning to concierge medicine to meet increasing patient demand for better choices in their care.
Where should you spend your retirement years?
A survey ranks metro areas by factors important to retirees.
Physician turnover grew in the decade leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic
Data could identify effects of recent trends in health care.