Starting salaries rise for primary care doctors in 2012

Source: ACP Internist Weekly Primary care physicians reported $180,000 in median first-year guaranteed compensation, up from $175,000 in 2011, a salary survey noted. MGMA’s “Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey: 2013 Report Based on 2012 Data” reported that medical practices feel the pressure to recruit physicians and offer competitive benefits amid concerns over the physician workforce[…]

Call Nights on Surgery Rotation

Source: Call Nights on Surgery Rotation   I’m on call for surgery, and the other med student and I have taken over the call room. There are only two of us, but you’d think we were a crowd of eight. We have somehow managed to spread our things over all four beds, filled the room[…]

Call Nights on Surgery Rotation

Source: Call Nights on Surgery Rotation   I’m on call for surgery, and the other med student and I have taken over the call room. There are only two of us, but you’d think we were a crowd of eight. We have somehow managed to spread our things over all four beds, filled the room[…]

Senators Introduce Physician Immigration Reform Bill – 2013 – Washington Highlights – Government Affairs

Source: https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/washhigh/highlights2013/331608/032213senatorsintroducephysicianimmigrationreformbill.html March 22, 2013—Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) March 19 introduced the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act (S. 616). The bill seeks to improve the pathway for physician immigration to the U.S. with changes to the Conrad State 30 J-1 visa waiver program,[…]