Physician Workforce

As more and more physicians become employed, many leaders are concerned about a subsequent lack of autonomy and representation. 

U.S. News & World Report recently released its rankings of the top healthcare jobs in 2024, and no physician specialty made the top seven. 

Healthcare companies were the industry with the third-most job cuts in 2023, according to a Jan. 4 report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. 

Hawaii is the healthiest state, while West Virginia is the least healthy, according to a Jan. 8 analysis from Forbes Advisor. 

Forty percent of physicians said they had interest in leaving their current organization within two years, according to a survey from the American Medical Association that was taken between 2021 and 2022.

Recent CMS data has South Dakota ranked the highest in physician communication. 

Across the country, 10.1% adults reported that they weren't able to see a doctor despite needing to due to the cost over the past 12 months, according to recent data from the United Health Foundation.

Massachusetts has become the first state in the country to have each of its hospital, health system and local health plans commit to eliminating questions about clinicians' mental health history or past drug use in the credentialing process.

Still having more to contribute as a physician was the leading reason physicians said they would keep working at least until their late 60s, according to Medscape's 2023 "Physicians Eye Retirement Report."

One-third of academic physicians expressed intention to leave their facility in the next two years in a study published Dec. 15 in JAMA Network Open.