Physician Workforce

Ten specialties filled all their positions in the 2023 Match results for medicine and pediatric specialties.

Between 2021 and 2022, 40% of physicians polled in a survey from the American Medical Association said they had interest in leaving their current organization within two years.

Decatur, Ill., is the urban area with the lowest cost of living, according to a Nov. 21 report from the Council for Community and Economic Research. 

New York City's Manhattan borough is the urban area with the highest cost of living, according to a Nov. 21 report from the Council for Community and Economic Research. 

The application deadline for CMS' new primary care payment model is Nov. 30.

Florida employs 23,170 physicians, the most of any state.

Here are six hospitals and health systems where workers are forming unions and voting to unionize that Becker's has reported on since Oct. 16:

Only 16 states have more primary care physicians than specialist physicians, according to recent data from KFF.

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid in Kentucky have launched new scholarships for UK's Rural Physician Leadership Program.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham will no longer be accepting new primary care patients at its academic medical centers in Boston — Mass General Hospital as well as Brigham and Women's Hospital — due to a shortage of primary care…