Follow the AI Money to Tomorrow’s Job Description
More than $1 billion in clinical AI funding since Sept. 22 is aimed at the work between visits: referrals, prior authorizations, chart prep and evidence lookup. Read as a forecast, the rounds show which physician tasks vendors expect to absorb, and raise the question of who keeps the saved time and who answers for what the agents do.
A Departing Nurse Costs Hospitals $60,090
Hospitals hired 377,650 RNs in 2025 and lost 324,090, netting 2.9% growth. This week’s reporting shows turnover, not supply, is setting the pace, at about $60,090 per departure. The harder question is who pays to fix it.
Kaiser or Academics? Price the Exclusivity Before You Sign
Kaiser, VA and academic offers differ less on salary than on exclusivity: outside-work limits, noncompetes, and partnership or vesting dates. This post shows where those terms hide, what current state noncompete laws change, and five questions plus a script to price each offer before you sign.
What Your ITE Percentile Actually Predicts About Boards
In-training exam scores just posted, and many residents are reading one percentile as a verdict. Here is what the IM-ITE actually predicts about passing boards, why programs watch it so closely, what a low score usually triggers, and a concrete plan for the months ahead.
Physician Pay’s Fastest Growth Path Is Now Administrative
Medical group executive pay rose 7.9% to 9.6% in 2026 while 17 of 30 specialties lost ground to inflation — the same employers, the same year, two opposite pay curves. wRVU efficiency cuts, specialty-level inflation erosion and proposed 2027 Medicare reductions are flattening the clinical production ladder just as administrative roles post double-digit gains and a $172,000 MD premium. The result reframes what physicians and recruiters should actually be negotiating: title, administrative FTE, RVU floors and the liability attached to them.
Doing the Bare Minimum in Residency: What It Costs
If you have quietly stopped doing anything in residency beyond what’s required, you have two real options: treat the minimum as a deliberate plan for a specific kind of career, or treat it as a signal and change something before it decides for you. Most residents do neither and keep coasting with the guilt, which […]
UPMC Gets a Board Seat at Its Locum Agency
UPMC Enterprises has taken a stake in locum agency VeloSource while a Maine health system moves to end its ED staffing contract. This analysis looks at who controls temporary physician labor and what that means for physicians and employers weighing locum and permanent roles.
When 20 Cardiologists Resign, Contracts Decide Who Recruits
Twenty of 27 cardiologists at Schenectady’s only cardiology practice have resigned to join a rival hospital, and a separate OB-GYN dispute in Lubbock shows the same constraint. In both cases the people were available; the contracts between institutions decided who could hire them. The analysis looks at what that means for recruiting speed, coverage planning and physicians reading their offers.
Moonlighting Pay Is Decided Before the First Shift
The shifts are worked, the notes are signed, and the money still hasn’t arrived. A fellow on Reddit described a “mandatory” moonlighting rotation that was still unpaid months later, and then an email saying an individual DEA registration had been required all along, even though the written guidance the fellows were given said it wasn’t. […]
Is That Hospital as Bad as Residents Say?
When you’re weighing a training program that strangers online call miserable, you have two real options: treat the reputation as a warning and rank the place lower, or set it aside and trust what you saw on interview day. Both are bets on thin evidence. Residents on Reddit regularly name a program and ask whether […]