Physician Workforce

Riverside County supervisors have approved a physician sharing program between California health systems Loma Linda University Health and Moreno Valley-based Riverside University Health System, according to a March 7 report from NBC Palm Springs.

Included in the American Medical Association's Recovery Plan for America's Physicians is a plan to fight "scope creep." 

Children's Hospital of Orange County in Orange, Calif., has expanded its physician wellness program by appointing Anjalee Galion, MD, as its inaugural physician wellness officer.

McComb, Miss.-based Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has received accreditation for its new family medicine residency program, the Daily Leader reported Feb. 28. 

Cullman (Ala.) Regional Medical Group is seeking 20 new physicians this year to meet population growth demands, the Cullman Times reported Feb. 27. 

Here are eight physician workforce updates Becker's reported on in February:

The University of Arizona Health Sciences is looking to address the physician workforce shortage by launching a primary care physician scholarship program.

Of the 949,658 actively practicing physicians in the U.S., 63 percent have been burned out for 13 months or more — an 11 percent increase from pre-pandemic levels.

University of Washington medical school alumni who trained in rural locations in school were twice as likely to establish a practice in a rural area, a study published Feb. 1 in the journal Academic Medicine found.  

 As a rural family practice physician, Kerry Willis, MD, has seen huge income drops in the last few years.