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...