Becker's Physician Leadership

Physician associates are heading into 2027 state legislative sessions with supervision rollbacks at the top of their agenda. Physician groups are preparing to fight them. Ten states have removed the requirement that PAs practice under physician supervision, according to MedPage…

Sunlight AI, a startup with roots in Miami and New York, has come out of stealth with $17.4 million in seed funding to help independent physician practices compete with large health systems while doctors keep ownership, Refresh Miami reported Oct.…

Oroville (Calif.) Hospital said Oct. 19 its board has voted to withdraw an application for an internal medicine residency program as it “navigates the Chapter 11 process.” Oroville Hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December, less than a…

Social media has become a regular source of medical information for patients, bringing new questions, expectations and sometimes misinformation into the exam room. A recent study from Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University found that Gen Z participants who follow physician-influencers on…

Physicians who reported improvements in their immediate supervisors’ leadership behavior were less likely to leave their organizations over the following two years, according to a study published Oct. 14 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers at Stanford Medicine (Calif.) analyzed 7,351…

The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Oct. 13 upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the 2025 deportation of Rasha Alawieh, MD, a transplant nephrologist at Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health, The Boston Globe reported Oct. 16. Customs and…

Gastroenterologists are now offered the highest average starting salary of any physician at $654,000, surpassing orthopedic surgeons, who had led the rankings for four consecutive years. Average starting salaries offered to orthopedic surgeons fell 12% year over year to $507,000,…

Seventy-seven percent of medical students and 74% of residents reported carrying debt from medical school, compared with 30% of practicing physicians, according to Medscape’s “Medical School Debt-Management Report 2026.” The report, published Oct. 16, is based on an online survey…