Created to address clinical staffing shortages in underserved areas, the assistant physician role is also designed to employ medical school graduates who have not matched into a residency program.

Some states are implementing innovative ways to help address the shortage. Missouri, a state with a large, medically underserved rural population, is the first state to launch a new licensure category ...

Two separate federal policy decisions within days of each other are simultaneously boosting the pipeline of foreign-born physicians through travel-ban policy changes while straining the pipeline of ...

Physician assistants (PA) practice medicine on healthcare teams with physicians and other providers. PAs are trained to obtain medical histories, perform examinations, order treatments, diagnose ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Several programs at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) are included in U.S. News & World Report's 2023-2024 rankings of the Best Graduate Schools. According to ...