With a projected physician shortage reaching as high as 90,000 by 2025, the country will need to increase the number of physicians it produces each year. According to data from 2012, more than a quarter of the workforce was 60 years old or older.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
A Medscape survey of more than 3,000 female physicians found that 53% held a leadership position. Of those in leadership positions, 40% said their work and personal lives were balanced and 57% said their work gets in the way of their personal lives. However, 72% said they were very or somewhat...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
With patient satisfaction surveys factoring more heavily into Medicare payments, hospitals are making more of an effort to improve the bedside manner of its physicians. Research has shown that hospitals that encourage physicians to be more responsive to patients are more likely to have higher...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
"[A]s we enter into clinical practice, physicians face the burdens of documentation and regulatory requirements that eat into the time that we should be spending on building relationships with our patients, which contributes to an ongoing erosion of our compassion."
- Rebekah...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
