Conrad 30 or HHS? Choose the Waiver Around Fellowship
If you trained on a J-1, the waiver question usually arrives with a job offer attached: take the slot through your state’s Conrad 30 program, or go through the federal HHS clinical waiver. Most residents pick whichever looks faster, but the route also decides where you’ll work for three years, what kind of medicine counts, […]
AMA Wants Hospitals That Pick Algorithms to Share Blame
The AMA says liability for clinical AI harm should follow control, putting health systems that select and monitor tools on the hook alongside developers. But most physicians say they have little say in which tools are chosen, and malpractice payouts keep rising. The gap is turning AI governance into an employment-contract question.
Who Pays Medical School Costs Above the $200,000 Cap?
Federal medical school borrowing now stops at $200,000, while new schools and residency capacity move on a timeline measured in years. This analysis looks at how the financing change and the training bottleneck compound each other.
Surgeon Offers Now Come With Surgery Center Equity
This analysis synthesizes 4 sources published the week ending Nov 5, 2026. Editorial analysis by the PhysEmp Editorial Team. Ask hospital leaders why they build surgery centers and recruiting comes fifth. Ask whether a surgery center helps them hire surgeons and 97% say yes. Both answers come from the same survey, and the distance between […]
A New Baby Doesn’t Have to End Your Training
The choice usually shows up as two options and nothing else: resign so you can actually see your baby, or keep working the schedule and keep resenting it. This week a new mother on Reddit described coming back after seven weeks of leave, one of them scraped together from banked vacation, to a house where […]