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.
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survey results
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survey results
Physician staffing
Why healthcare organizations use locum tenens
Physician staffing is a tough business these days. It can take 7 months to a
year to hire a staff physician — possibly even longer for physicians in
high-demand specialties like orthopedics or radiology. So what do you do in the
meantime?
Well, a whole industry has evolved over the last 20 years or so to solve that
specific physician staffing problem.
The term “locum tenens” is Latin for “to hold the place of, to substitute for.”
A locum tenens physician is a licensed and credentialed — likely even
board-certified — physician who fills a gap in your medical team.
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of this article on physician staffing.
Physician recruiting
Money Matters, But MDs Want Much More
Improving communications is critical to retention of employed physicians
Show me the money.” That seems to be the message from doctors surveyed last
year about what would keep them at their jobs. In a survey of more than 1,000
hospital-employed physicians nationwide, doctors were asked to name the five
most important elements in a retention plan. Four of the five elements were
financial.
But salaries are not the whole story, says Pam McKemie, senior vice president
at LocumTenens.com, the Alpharetta, Ga., locum tenens agency that sponsored the
survey.
View the full article (By Terese Hudson Thrall,
H&HN Magazine)
The state of physician recruiting today
If you’re involved in physician staffing or
physician recruiting today, you know the shortage of physicians in many
specialties is growing. This is true especially in rural America, where roughly
20 percent of the U.S. population live but only 11 percent of U.S. physicians
practice.
Recent studies indicate most U.S. hospitals (more than 90 percent) and a
majority of medical practices (almost three-fourths) across the country are
actively recruiting physicians. Experts project a shortage of 50,000 physicians
by 2010; it could grow to as many as 200,000 physicians by 2020.
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version of this article on physician recruiting.
Physician Shortage Facts
This article outlines the changing demographics that are leading to a physician
shortage in the United States. It also discusses some of the other major
contributing factors related to this issue.
View the the full version of
this article on the physician shortage.
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