Latest Residents News

• Assistant Physicians: COVID-19 Draws Notice to New Type of Doc Assistant physicians are med school graduates who practice under supervision without completing residency. They may help bolster the workforce during the pandemic, but critics have concerns.
  Medscape Medical News, July 02, 2020
• Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century.
  Kaiser Health News, July 01, 2020
• Geographical Hot Spots for Early-Onset Colon Cancer In more than 200 hot spots across the United States, there is a high prevalence of colorectal cancer in patients younger than 50, and for these patients, survival is significantly worse.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2020
• How Well Trained Is the Class of COVID-19? Medical schools have had to reinvent training seemingly overnight, thanks to COVID-19. Faculties hope to plug education gaps using strategies that may permanently change medical education.
  Medscape Medical News, June 30, 2020
• Physician Shortage Grows in Latest Projections AAMC now estimates the shortage of PCPs and specialty physicians being between 54,100 and 139,000 by 2033, up from 46,900 to 121,900 in 2032. COVID-19 will have both long- and short-term effects.
  Medscape Medical News, June 26, 2020
• How Does the New Immigration Order Affect the Medical Community? The Association of American Medical Colleges criticizes the restrictions on new visas for other IMGs who want to come to the United States to train and work in healthcare or to do medical research.
  Medscape Medical News, June 26, 2020
• Study Shows Difficulty of Pegging Doctor, Hospital Errors to Physician Sleep Deprivation A new multi-hospital study assessing the effect of sleeplessness on medical errors found that house staff forced to work 24-hour shifts made fewer serious medical mistakes than their counterparts assigned to schedules without extended shifts.
  Reuters Health Information, June 24, 2020
• Young Psychiatrists Share Stories From the Pandemic Front Lines A group of early-career psychiatrists talk about their experiences volunteering on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic and what it taught them about medicine and themselves.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2020
• Insurers and States Move to Lower Malpractice Premiums; More The goal is to reduce med-mal premiums during the pandemic; nursing home disaster triggers a class action; pneumonia patient dies on hospital's watch, suit claims.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 24, 2020
• Residency, Med School Interviews Go Virtual: What to Know Because of the pandemic, interviews for residency programs and medical schools are going virtual. Although experts acknowledge challenges, the change may help address problematic application processes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 23, 2020
• USMLE Testing Chaos May Harm Current and Future Doctors Licensing exam testing, delayed by COVID-19, has resumed. But chaos and cancellations have left many confused, anxious, and angry. Critics allege that the organizations responsible are failing students and residents.
  Medscape Medical News, June 15, 2020
• Native American Mothers and a Hospital's Secret Coronavirus Policy Pregnant Native American women were singled out for COVID-19 testing on the basis of their race and ZIP code, clinicians say. While awaiting results, some mothers were separated from their newborns.
  ProPublica, June 15, 2020
• Disparities Shape COVID-19 Caseload in Georgia In Georgia, COVID-19 rates have highlighted racial, socioeconomic, and health disparities, but the state has not yet seen the surges some were expecting.
  Medscape Medical News, June 12, 2020
• Hospitalists Stretch Into New Roles on COVID-19 Front Lines In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems, hospitals, and hospitalists have had to stretch limits, redefine roles, and redeploy critical staff in response to needs on the ground.
  Medscape Medical News, June 12, 2020
• Mother and Daughter Graduate Med School, Match Together Cynthia Kudji and her daughter, Jasmine, got their MDs within weeks of each other. Theirs is a story of dreams deferred — and a future in residency together where they hope to make a difference.
  Medscape Medical News, June 11, 2020
• USMLE Abandons Plan for Shorter Tests After Backlash The USMLE decided not to offer a shorter version of the Step 1 and Step 2 CK exam to some students after all, in response to criticism about fairness.
  Medscape Medical News, June 09, 2020
• COVID-19 Overwhelms Border ICUs Hospital officials say most of the infected patients are US citizens or legal residents who live in, or recently traveled to, Mexico and came to the US for care.
  Kaiser Health News, June 08, 2020
• Residents Demand Changes in Advance of Second Wave of COVID-19 In Brooklyn, Brookdale Hospital residents staged a 'unity break' to protest the lack of their involvement in decision making and call for changes to hospital protocols.
  Medscape Medical News, June 05, 2020
• #WhiteCoats4BlackLives: A 'Platform for Good' Residents, students, and clinicians say now is the time to take a stand against racism.
  Medscape Medical News, June 05, 2020
• Docs' Group Confronts ICE Over 'Dangers of Detention' From COVID-19 Members of Doctors for Camp Closure have been protesting at ICE detention facilities around the country to draw attention to the plight of detainees during the time of COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020