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The top news stories in medicine this week.

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.

Staffing at medical practices has become one of the biggest challenges they face. Dina Taylor explains why.

Advanced practice providers have moved from stopgap to permanent staff, and physicians are absorbing the change in patient acuity, productivity benchmarks and rural coverage.

Nearly half of health care organizations say patient access improved this year. Fewer than one in five patients agree. Experian Health's chief operating officer explains what practices are measuring that patients are not, and why a missing cost estimate now keeps patients out of the exam room entirely.

A national survey of 465 direct primary care physicians upends the $77-per-month benchmark and much of what the model was assumed to look like.

A 2026 physician survey finds administrative hassle now drives more doctors from clinical practice than the medicine itself — and independent practices, without a back office to absorb it, feel that weight first.

‘Transparency is now the norm’ as Leapfrog Group logs data for more than 6,000 facilities nationwide.

Female physicians leave clinical practice at a median age of 49, compared with age 64 for their male colleagues, and the practice patterns patients value most may be part of what drives them out.

Overhead swallows roughly 60% of the typical practice's revenue, and most of it sits in a few line items. These nine moves pull real money off that number without touching the exam room — and the biggest lever is the one most owners are slowest to open.

Is your recruiting team full of high performers? Trent Cotton explains the seven traits that separate the good ones from the bad ones.

More than 150 recruitment leaders reveal the ownership gaps, execution gaps and untapped tools holding health care back

Clinical applications are climbing while hires lag behind, and Trent Cotton of iCIMS says the practices that win top talent are the ones that make hiring fast, personal and transparent.

New national survey data reveals the real drivers behind RN turnover — and what employers can actually do about it

What you need to know about the H-1B visa fee and how it affects health care

Trent Cotton of iCIMS breaks down what's driving application surges, where hiring bottlenecks form and how practices can streamline the process to win top candidates

Two Physicians Foundation experts discuss why where a patient lives may shape their health more than the care they receive and what physicians can actually do about it.

PYA consulting principal Tynan Kugler breaks down the market, regulatory and workforce pressures pulling physician compensation in competing directions, and what organizations and physicians need to understand before structuring a deal.

Immigration can help this segment: Here’s what physicians need to know

Here’s how to augment your front-end workers so they can focus on patients when staff and funding are in short supply.

AACOM report shows 98.76% placement rate for 2026.

Burnout, hassle and unrealistic patient demands have replaced personal health concerns and rising malpractice premiums as the top drivers of early physician exits.

Two-thirds of health care finance chiefs cite government funding uncertainty as their biggest concern in Strata Decision Technology's 2026 report.