New medical student enrollment at the nation’s osteopathic medical colleges has increased by 11.1% in fall 2013 over enrollment in 2012, according to the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM). A total of 6,449 students began their medical education at one of 29 DO-...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 43
Physicians-in-training are unlikely to engage in common courtesy behaviors such as introducing themselves fully to patients or sitting down to talk to them one-on-one, according to recent research from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 43
It’s estimated that more than a third of all mental-healthcare in the U.S. is now provided by primary care physicians (PCPs) and other practitioners because patients don’t want or can’t easily access psychiatric care, according to Suzanne Koven, MD. However, many PCPs lack the time or training...
Val Jones, MD, recently spoke with hospital executives (some of whom were physicians) about the overall process of hiring and managing temporary physicians. “What I heard wasn’t pretty,” Jones wrote on the KevinMD website. “I thought I’d summarize their opinions in the form of a mock...
With the temporary federal budget deal ending the 16-day government shutdown, state and federal officials have some catching up to do to make up for time lost. At the state level, some health departments will be dealing with a backlog of federal inspections postponed during the shutdown. Some...
The Leapfrog Group’s fourth safety report card for general acute care hospitals, released Wednesday, shows little overall improvement in how well providers are preventing patient harm. A total of 2,539 hospitals were graded on 15 structural measures, such as whether the hospital has a full-time...
