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2025 Doctor Job Outlook: Why Go Locum Tenens?

Barton Associates

Despite projected shortages, the overall job outlook for a doctor in the United States is positive— according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , overall employment of physicians is projected to grow 4% between 2023 and 2033, which is as fast as the average for all occupations, healthcare or otherwise. in April 2025.

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Behind the stethoscope: A conversation with Dr. Osman Saleem

Sound Physicians

I attended medical school in America and completed my residency at the Catholic Health Internal Medicine program in Buffalo, New York. What makes your hospital medicine practice stand out from others in the healthcare industry? Their interactions are professional yet very collegial and supportive of one another.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.