Employment Trends

UA Little Rock and NYITCOM's eight-year D.O. pathway replaces the MCAT with four years of GPA benchmarks, but leaders say in-state residency slots will decide whether graduates stay.

The vast majority of physicians are now employed, and it's changing how they treat patients and how they go about their job

Median work RVUs rose no more than 2.8% in any group, while nearly 65% of surveyed organizations plan to add physicians in the coming year.

HR thinks your recognition efforts are great. Employees would like a word.

Independent primary care is struggling under a payment system stacked against it

Survey shows that physician pay growth is slowing, but some specialties fare better than others.

AI should reduce clerical work while increasing supervised reasoning, feedback and clinical judgment for developing physicians.

Cost trends keep outrunning forecasts in recent years. The Business Group on Health survey shows that next year will follow the same trend.

APP integration is now the norm, not the exception

A bipartisan bill would let employers pay $1,200 to cut the 372-day labor certification wait to 30 days, easing one early bottleneck for practices that hire foreign-born staff.

A physician recruitment leader discusses what keeps doctors working happily in practices and health care organizations.

Sarah Nosal, MD, president of the AAFP, explains which parts of a compensation package physicians overlook, why non-competes and scope of practice need to be in writing, and why the moment before you sign is your biggest source of leverage.

Patient preferences shape clinical decisions, but so do corporate policies, according to PAI survey of employed physicians.

A physician recruitment leader discusses what keeps doctors working happily in practices and health care organizations.

Is the U.S. still on top?

The clinician shortage is real, but there are other reasons why mental health referrals often go nowhere.

A JAMA analysis of nearly 250,000 board-certified internists puts hard numbers on how much underserved patient care rests on physicians born outside the U.S., just as visa policy tightens around them.

Supporters of osteopathic medical education hope Pennsylvania collaboration will be a model for the nation.

A new model of 5,778 physicians sorts every combination of hometown, medical school and residency into four tiers of rural practice.

RAND researchers put the same questions to 15 primary care physicians employed by health systems and 15 independent ones. Neither model came out ahead on all five findings.

Sports agent Leigh Steinberg, co-founder of physician branding agency MD Envoy, explains how doctors can turn their expertise into a public platform without jeopardizing their medical career.

An study of 1,258 providers across eight health systems found daily wRVU increases of up to 4.1% among physicians who engaged most with their production and earnings data.

Two physicians and two health system executives got candid with Chief Healthcare Executive about denials, administrative burden and what AI is actually delivering.

Physicians in eight specialties now clear $500,000 a year, and the distance between the top earners and primary care keeps growing.

A new survey of physicians, nurses and health care leaders points to burnout, reimbursement uncertainty and the pace of AI adoption as the top threats to the system, even as national data show physician burnout easing.