More medical residents across the country are joining a union known as the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR). They want a stronger collective voice in advocating for a safe and healthy training ...

As medical schools across the United States have expanded to meet the needs of an aging population, the number of post-graduate training positions — commonly known as residency programs — has not kept ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—Olga Meave, M.D., didn’t mind the dry, 105-degree heat that scorched this Central Valley city on a recent afternoon. The sweltering summer days remind her of home in Sonora, Mexico ...

With more than £100,000 in student debt, Dr Luke Craddock, 26, now faces unemployment - Lorne Campbell/Guzelian After seven years of medical training, gruelling hospital shifts and more than £100,000 ...

This story originally appeared in Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. In nearly two years as a medical resident in Meridian, Mississippi, John Thames, M.D., has treated car-wreck ...

A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses, a shift supporters say could ease physician shortages in rural areas. The changes ...

The manifesto rang with a tone of bitter disappointment. “We are growing intellectually passive,” it said. “Much of our time is squandered in academic exercises from which we learn little.” Rigid ...

When Leena Aljobeh saw her sister-in-law talk with a doctor after giving birth, something clicked that inspired her to go into medicine. She was always a people person with an interest in science. At ...

Doctors aren't the only ones who wear white coats. But one physician is trying to show that the traditional white doctor's garb can do extra duty in the kitchen. As Americans strive to eat more ...

For Dr. Aaron Hultgren, the wake-up call was Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when the young emergency physician returned from an overseas trip and found his hospital without power, its doors closed to the ...

Resident doctors are considering a revised government proposal on training and job reforms as the BMA consults members on calling off strikes ...