Drug Companies Refocusing Efforts on Vaccines, Leading to Other Shortages
It takes knowledgeable and experienced primary care physicians to help patients navigate a myriad of challenges brought on by COVID-19… including medication shortages due to vaccine production. We applaud these physicians who are persevering, despite … Read More
Anthem Funds Initiative to Address Nevada’s Physician Shortage
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Nevada’s Medicaid health plan has committed $75,000 to fund a new University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) initiative called See It To Be It. This initiative … Read More
What is a Primary Care Physician?
At Physician Retraining & Reentry, we focus on preparing physicians to provide primary care services. What, exactly, is a primary care physician?
A primary care physician provides preventive care, like routine check-ups, and is often a patient’s first … Read More
The Primary Care Physician Income Gap: PRR Part of the Solution
The primary care physician shortage in the U.S. is blamed on many factors, including an aging population, physician burnout and new physicians seeking specialty practices because of higher pay. On that latter issue, researchers and think … Read More
Physician Employment Market Stabilizing, Recruitment Executive Says
A physician recruitment firm is reporting that the physician employment market is returning to pre-pandemic levels, according to HealthLeaders. This means that, after being dormant during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, both demand … Read More
Why Switch to a General Practitioner Practice?
Many Physician Retraining & Reentry (PRR) participants had very clear, sometimes obvious, reasons why they wanted to transition from a specialized practice to a general practitioner. PRR has enrolled a surgeon who no longer had the eyesight needed for surgery … Read More
MDLinx: PRR a Prominent Path to Physician Re-Licensure
Physicians who have let their licenses lapse but want to return to practice have options, according to MDLinx. One such option is to participate in a re-entry program — and the Physician Retraining & Reentry Program (PRR) is one of the most prominent of these programs, MDLinx said … Read More
University of Miami med school accepts 205 of 11,000 who apply
By Kylea Henseler | Miami Today
A projected physician shortage still looms over the US even as medical school acceptance rates hover in the single digits, but the magnitude of the shortage anticipated by the Association … Read More