The Emergency Medicine Match: is the sky falling or is this just growing pains?

GR Schmitz, ZJ Jarou - Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2023 - annemergmed.com
Emergency medicine has historically filled 99% of the available residency positions in the
match. In 2022, there were 219 unfilled emergency medicine positions before the …

When Getting Bigger is too Big—Challenges of Growing Healthcare Systems

NN Massarweh, AM Ibrahim - Annals of Surgery, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Since passage of the Affordable Care Act, nearly two hospital mergers occur per week with
64% of acute care hospitals now part of a multi-hospital health system comprising 84% of …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic Location and Corporate Ownership of Hospitals in Relation to Unfilled Positions in the 2023 Emergency Medicine Match

ZJ Jarou, AG Cai, L Adelman, DJ Carlberg… - Western Journal of …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods The primary outcome measures included the proportion of positions filled in
relation to state and population density, hospital ownership type, and physician employment …

Private Equity: The Bad and the Ugly

S Konda, S Patel, J Francis - Dermatologic Clinics, 2023 - derm.theclinics.com
Private equity (PE) firms execute leveraged buyouts by acquiring target companies with a
small amount of their own capital and a large amount of outside debt financing. They have …

Impact of Inflation on Real Resident Wages

PJ Morrissey, MS Dworkin, MS Quinn - Academic Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
To the Editor: Applicants from underrepresented minority (URM) groups are less likely to be
interviewed and admitted into graduate medical education (GME) programs—despite their …

My Life, Our Story: Safeguarding Patient Agency in Narrative Medicine Curricula

WJW Choi - Academic Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Makhoul and colleagues describing
the nature and structure of their elective course that aims to prepare students for the practice …

Impact of Medical Trainees on Efficiency and Productivity in the Emergency Department: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

J Valentine, J Poulson, J Tamayo… - Western Journal of …, 2024 - escholarship.org
Methods: We queried PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science from earliest
available dates to March 2023. We identified all studies evaluating the impact of medical …