Below are the percentages of physicians who would either change their specialty or profession if they had the opportunity, according to the Medical Economics' 2023 "Physician Report." .

AMN Healthcare, a healthcare staffing firm, analyzed a sample of the 2,676 permanent physician and advanced practitioner search engagements the firm conducted from April 1, 2022, to March 31.

AMN Healthcare, a healthcare staffing firm, analyzed a sample of the 2,676 permanent physician and advanced practitioner search engagements the firm conducted from April 1, 2022, to March 31. Here are the lowest, average and highest salaries for the most-recruited physician specialties, according to the "2023 Physician Incentive Review" from AMN Healthcare:

Here are the 50 states and District of Columbia ranked by "healthy lives," according to data from the Commonwealth Fund. The metric includes measures of premature death, health status, health risk behaviors and factors, and tooth loss.

Here are five recent efforts by universities, states and health systems to address the physician shortage that Becker's has reported on since June 22:

There are 514,410 active primary care physicians and 562,705 active specialist physicians in the U.S., according to May data from KFF.

Here are the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked by healthcare access and affordability, according to data from the Commonwealth Fund:

The annual physician turnover rate increased by 43 percent between 2010 and 2018, according to recent data published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Here are six areas for health systems to focus on to improve physician well-being and address burnout, according to a July 25 report from the American Medical Association:

Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kan., has formed an admissions partnership with Kansas Health Science Center-Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Wichita with the goal of addressing the physician shortage, KFDI reported July 22.

Resident physicians at Boston Medical Center held a rally July 20 to call for better compensation.

The physician workforce reached 1,044,734 in 2022, according to a census conducted by the Federation of State Medical Boards and published July 18 in the Journal of Medical Regulation.

The number of physicians working in private practice decreased by 13.4 percent from 60.1 percent in 2012 to 46.7 percent in 2022, according to a report from the American Medical Association.

Resident and fellow physicians at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, Calif., held a rally July 19 for better wages and support amid contract negotiations, Palo Alto Online reported July 18.

About 20 percent of the U.S. population lives in a rural area, yet just 11 percent of physicians practice in these regions, according to a report by the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. 

Massachusetts ranked No. 1 among the states and the District of Columbia in terms of health system performance, according to data from the Commonwealth Fund.

While most hospitals recognize physician burnout is a serious problem, many are still in the early stages of addressing it. Here are four steps hospitals can take to push their programs addressing physician burnout further along, according to a July 18 report from the American Medical Association:

A group of emergency physicians at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit — along with physician assistants, nurse practitioners and lead advanced practice clinicians — have voted to join the Greater Detroit Association of Emergency Physicians, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

CNBC recently released two sets of reports ranking the best and worst states to work in.

Here are two ways physicians and health systems can prepare for the next decade of healthcare and cost cutting, according to a July 13 report from the American Medical Association: