Workforce

Working-age adults with a first-time MI who were not in the workforce had higher rates of all-cause mortality and recurrent MI than individuals who were in the workforce, researchers reported.

This current issue of Healio Rheumatology features a roundtable on “‘The Art of Medicine’: Physicians’ Artistic Pursuits Strengthen Empathy, Sharpen Skills,” with contributions from Ronan Kavanagh, MD; Iris Y. Navarro-Millan, MD; James Louie, MD; Ronald F. van Vollenhoven, MD, PhD; and myself. The topic is not new — and indeed it is old — but in my mind it is more relevant today than any other time in modern medicine.

I have been told that I wanted to be a physician since I was a little kid, likely influenced by my maternal grandfather, Bernard Aschner, MD. He was a gynecologic surgeon and physiologist trained in Vienna and Berlin, who showed that the pituitary gland controls growth and sexual development by successfully performing transsphenoidal hypophysectomies in pups and comparing them to controls from the same litter. He later taught the surgical technique to the neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing, MD.

Just 62.8% of available pediatric rheumatology program slots were filled for the 2023 appointment year as part of the National Residents Matching Program, according to the American College of Rheumatology.

I just got back from Philadelphia and ACR Convergence 2022, and let me start by saying how glad I am that I attended. I met and canvassed the Healio Rheumatology Peer Board members, as well as a large number of friends and professional colleagues, on what they thought about the meeting in an effort to describe what worked for them, as well as what may have missed the mark.

Searching for a future discipline to pursue during my time in medical school at the University of Rochester in New York, I grappled with family medicine, psychiatry and neurology.

The 2021 National Practice and Workforce Survey published in The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care identified opportunities and challenges in diabetes care that can guide strategies for future workforce and practice settings.

I did not really think about rheumatology until the first or second year of medical school, when we had a very brief course on it. However, it wasn’t until my fourth year of medical training that I seriously considered rheumatology as a specialty.

The 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule does not reflect the important role infectious disease physicians play in safeguarding public health and is a “serious setback” to the ID workforce, the Infectious Diseases Society of America said.

PHILADELPHIA — Addressing the rheumatology workforce shortage will require not just new fellowship opportunities, but also creating patient-centered communities and expanding virtual access to care, said a presenter here.