Workforce

MAUI, Hawaii — As patient demand for care continues to outpace the available rheumatology workforce in the U.S., the use of telemedicine has been strongly endorsed as a way to alleviate the shortage. However, whether the benefits of virtual rheumatology care justify the potential legal risks remained hotly debated during the 2020 Rheumatology Winter Clinical Symposium.

The rheumatology community lost clinician and educator Calvin R. Brown, MD, on Dec. 1, 2019. He was 66 years old. His final years were spent at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, practicing rheumatology and training fellows in the specialty.

Women made up the majority of enrolled medical students in the United States for the first time, according to data for the 2019-2020 academic year.

ATLANTA — A national survey of rheumatology fellows found that early trainee level and young age are associated with worsening degrees of fatigue, quality of life and burnout, according to a speaker at the ACR/ARP Annual Meeting.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — In light of a worsening rheumatologist shortage in the United States, practices that wish to not only recruit physicians, but also retain them, will have to offer competitive compensation with personalized incentives, and potentially look internationally to widen the talent pool, according to a presenter here.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Workplaces and managers who may or may not have just grown acquainted with — and successfully integrated — their millennial employees will soon be greeting an entirely new generation, complete with their own priorities and values, according to Lynne Lancaster, BA, of Lynne Lancaster Consulting.

by Mike Harvey, PA-C, MBA