A desire to help the elderly lured Dr. Arden Aylor to practice primary care in the area. For two years, he has served the local community, most recently with the Talladega Primary and Urgent Care Center, owned by Regional Medical Center. But though Aylor has enjoyed the work, it...

Thousands of foreign-trained immigrant physicians are living in the United States with lifesaving skills that are going unused because they stumbled over one of the many hurdles in the path toward becoming a licensed doctor here. The involved testing process and often duplicative training these doctors must go through...

A fashion faux pas almost prevented me from getting into my dream medical school. Midway through the interview there, the interviewer pointed to my left earlobe and said, “Do you really think we accept men who wear … those things?” I had no idea what he was talking about...

There’s no one right approach to the growing shortage of doctors in rural America, experts say. Terry Hill, the executive director of the National Rural Health Resource Center in Duluth, summarized what was said in a conversation among leaders of four of the biggest health-care systems in the country:...

More than half of physicians are receiving up to three employment solicitations per week, according to a report published by American Medical Association (AMA). According to a study from the physician recruiter Medicus Firm, released in June, more than half of practicing physicians receive at least three employment solicitations...

Surgical residents who completed a year in rural practice were more likely to enter general surgery practice than those who did not. They were also more likely to practice in areas with populations of less than 50,000, an Oregon Health and Science University study shows. Evidence suggests that a...

Theories abound as to why young physicians won’t practice in rural areas. But the key reason why young medical doctors don’t fill these much-needed roles readily is a lack of accountability in publicly funded Graduate Medical Education programs, researchers suggest. A new round of metrics doesn’t bode well for...

Fifteen new allopathic medical schools have been established in this country since the AAMC policy statement was issued in 2006. As a result, there are now 141 allopathic medical schools in the country. Based on projected enrollment figures, it would appear that by the end of the decade, the...