Physician Workforce

Twenty-two percent of physicians have seen misbehavior from other physicians outside of the workplace, according to Medscape's 2023 "Physician Behavior Report."

Thirty-nine percent of physicians have seen misbehavior from other physicians in the workplace, according to Medscape's 2023 "Physician Behavior Report."

Male physicians have been represented in films through the last three decades four times more often than women, according to recent analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Here are five numbers that provide a look into the employed physician workforce. 

Emergency medicine tops the list of physician specialties with the highest percentage of burnout, according to a survey with over 13,000 responses from physicians and nonphysician providers across 30 states conducted by the American Medical Association.

Here are the best and worst states across a variety of metrics that Becker's has reported on since July 17:

WalletHub published its ranking of the best states for healthcare on July 31. One of the dimensions used to determine the ranking was healthcare access, which was based on 24 different metrics such as physicians per capita, hospital beds per…

Eighty-four percent of physician assistants are satisfied with their current job and the majority of physician assistants across all specialties reported no symptoms of burnout, according to a survey conducted by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. 

Only 34 percent of Americans have visited their primary care provider within the last year, according to a survey conducted by OnePoll for Assurance IQ.

94.6 percent of hospitals have been addressing physician shortages through telemedicine programs, according to the results of the Eagle 2023 Telemedicine Adoption Survey.