Physician staffing
Reduce Physician Turnover and Improve Your Bottom Line
Physicians speak up about retention issues
As the shortage of healthcare professionals worsens across this country,
residents and physicians are changing jobs more often in search of better
opportunities. With a physician shortage and considerable physician frustration
as a backdrop, U.S. healthcare organizations are looking for more physicians
than they were a year ago. As demand for physicians increases and competition
to recruit them heats up, it becomes even more critical that healthcare
organizations sharpen their focus on retaining the physicians already working
at their facilities.
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Physician staffing
LocumTenens.com Survey of Physician Recruiters in U.S. Healthcare Organizations
In summer 2006, LocumTenens.com surveyed the 700+ members of the Association of
Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR) to gather information and identify trends in
physician recruiting and retention.
Highlights of the survey findings included:
Almost half (45%) of respondents reported they had
recruited more than 20 physicians in the past year, compared to 27% of 2005
respondents. Among those, about a third of respondents (32%) recruited more
than 30 physicians in the past year.
Forty percent (40%) said their organizations plan to spend more than $300,000
on physician recruitment in 2006. Of those, 19% said their organizations
planned to spend more than $500,000.
The number of organizations using no locum
tenens physicians decreased, from 32% in 2005 to 20% in 2006. The number of
organizations reporting they had used up to 10 locum tenens physicians in the
past year increased by 10%, from 50% in 2005 to 60% in 2006. The percentage of
respondents reporting their organizations used more than 10 locum tenens
physicians in the past year increased by 5%, from 20% in 2005 to 25% in 2006.
Click here for an overview of the 2006
survey results
Click here for an overview of the 2005
survey results
