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UnitedHealth Group partnered with the University of Minnesota to launch an elective course that exposes medical students to value-based care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

UnitedHealth Group partnered with the University of Minnesota to launch an elective course that exposes medical students to value-based care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new analysis shows that medical school students were less likely to apply this year for residency positions in states with abortion bans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why do women seem to benefit more from being treated by a female physician? And how this can help men, too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CVS Health is aiming to bolster the pharmacy workforce with new scholarship and tuition assistance programs for people looking to enter the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A record number of primary care positions were offered this year with 19,423 primary care positions, or 46.8% of all the positions offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Behavioral health provider Centerstone and Lyssn inked a multi-year strategic product development, joint marketing and clinician training partnership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Four takeaways from personal experience on the frontlines of the COVID response that we should use to accelerate mental health solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Biden administration announced a $100 million investment to train more nurses and grow the workforce as the healthcare industry faces a critical nurse shortage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Optum is teaming up with Capella University to launch a new educational program aimed at stemming the tide of the nurse shortage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Optum is teaming up with Capella University to launch a new educational program aimed at stemming the tide of the nurse shortage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

in the past year, 25% of LGBTQ+ adults did not have any health screenings, compared to 20% of cisgender, heterosexual adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The influential Democrat's legislation is slated for committee markup next week, but is already being speared by Republicans and the hospital lobby. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are calling for nominations to honor minority leaders in the industry who are shaping the way healthcare of the future will be delivered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Group practices that subscribe can offer their clinicians CE as an employee benefit and manage their group CE learning and training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ChatGPT scored below the 70% required to pass the exam. To be used as an education tool, it should consistently provide more than 95% accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The patient's voice and personal descriptions humanize the experience and show a side of illness often missing from standard medical training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The legislation, which matches a similar bill from the House, picked up quick support from the Association of American Medical Colleges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wolters Kluwer and Microsoft are working together to provide "big picture insights" to health systems using data and analytics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The programs are for those interested in furthering their academic careers or transitioning into academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the module, learners can see and interact with both a hologram patient experiencing cardiac arrest and medical equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study reached experienced practicing dermatologists to help prove the video game was effective in late-stage careers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The student bodies at the nation's medical schools are growing more ethnically diverse, AAMC reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United Health Foundation will invest $100 million over the next decade to drive a more diverse healthcare workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Students will learn about LGBTQ+ health issues, regulations and addressing discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Physician trainees are banding together in California and other states to demand higher wages and better benefits and working conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Study after stud [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Study after stud [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Study after stud [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Osso VR snagged $66 million in a series C funding round led by Oak HC/FT for its virtual reality surgical training tech, the company announced Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

VisualDx, a medical informatics company, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its brainchild Project IMPACT, a global collaborative of nine organizations aiming to reduce health disparities a [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychedelics Today, an education company, will soon be launching an in-depth, 12-month training focused on psychedelic therapy and integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several House Democrats called for installing federal nursing staff ratios and loan repayments to ease the impact of a massive labor shortage that has wreaked the healthcare industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New York University is teaming up with Manatt Health to launch a new master's degree course that aims to teach the next generation of healthcare industry leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The health system reportedly said the incident was a misunderstanding among staff, which it has retrained, and is contacting patients about the error. Repeat doses will be available at special locations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new report emphasizes the need to groom leaders among those who are underrepresented in medicine as a step to address diversity and equity in the healthcare workforce. That begins with an earnest effort on the part of non-minority leaders to understand the inequities and discrimination challenges that their underrepresented peers face, researchers said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DNR is "not given the same critical evaluation that we give to a potential surgery or procedure or diagnostic test or medication," the author of the study said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The turnover rate among support staff for people living with intellectual or developmental disabilities continues to climb, despite people with these disabilities being significantly more at risk of dying from COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The American Rescue Plan-funded investments will yield "the largest field strength in history" for the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery programs, according to the White House. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advocates are applauding a proposal to increase the number of slots of Medicare-supported graduate medical education by 4,000 as part of a $1.75 trillion infrastructure bill. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hospitals are struggling to hire as overworked employees are reaching the end of their ropes. Alongside new programs to cut down employees' work and home life stressors, executives say they'll be needing more financial support from Congress to head off long-term workforce shortages and closures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OptumHealth has launched an accredited, free online course that aims to help providers care more effectively for LGBTQ patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The course, called preparED, is free and publicly available, and this coming year it will be integrated with several institutions' curricula: the Yale School of Medicine, Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Columbia University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Meharry Medical College, the country's oldest and largest historically Black medical school, are partnering on an initiative that aims to address racism in the sciences and promote inclusion and diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The charitable arm of Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield is investing more than $5 million in enhancing behavioral health services across the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tech alums from Microsoft, Apple and George Lucas' visual effects company are turning surgical training into a cinema-quality virtual experience. Osso VR banked $27 million to expand its surgical training using high-fidelity, virtual reality simulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By merging to become OU Health, the system said it will be able ramp up medical research, train more clinicians and improve the patient experience. The hospitals had been spun out in 1998 and owned by HCA Healthcare until 2018. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The U.S. physician shortage continues to widen post-pandemic, the Association of American Medical Colleges reports. As many as 184,000 physicians may be needed in the next 10 years when factoring in barriers to health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Congress is pursuing legislation that would boost funding for graduate medical education by $500 million in an effort to head off a shortage of primary care physicians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are many things for medical residents to think about between now and starting their new residency program. Here are five steps for physicians to take immediately after they've matched. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]