Primary Care Career and Resource Center

Welcome to the LocumTenens.com Primary Care Career and Resource Center! Here you can stay up-to-date on the latest news and trends in your industry, check out survey statistics on primary care salaries, find links to organizations and associations, and more. Of course, you’re only a few clicks away from finding the perfect primary care employment opportunity, too.


Primary Care Salary and Employment Statistics

Primary Care Salary Survey The 2009 LocumTenens.com Compensation and Employment Survey reports for Family Practice, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics are available.

The 2009 survey highlights annual full-time compensation and salary breakdowns by region, years in practice, and gender. Respondent demographics including region of practice, board certification, and time frame for making next job change are also published. In addition, this year’s survey polled family practice, internal medicine, and pediatric physicians for their views on healthcare reform in regard to the nation’s economic recovery. LocumTenens.com also surveyed primary care physicians to identify economic trends in their practice over the past year.


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Primary Care articles of interest

Can Locum Tenens Save Primary Care?

Primary care is struggling, and no one seems to know what might bring it back to life. Why aren’t physicians attracted to primary care? A survey conducted by Merritt Hawkins & Associates got to the bottom of this question by surveying 12,000 physicians. The survey gives interesting insight as to why physicians are leaning towards locum tenens as their practice style.

When asked what aspects of medicine they find unsatisfying, "reimbursement," "managed care issues," and "malpractice/defensive medicine" topped physicians' lists. About half of those surveyed indicated they will take steps in the next 1 to 3 years that will either take them out of patient care or reduce the number of patients they see. Some said they will retire, some said they will seek nonclinical jobs, and some said they will work part-time; which is where locum tenens come in.

Primary Care Career Resources and Links

Physician Career Center Home
Anesthesiology Career Center
General Physician Career Center
Psychiatry Career Center
Surgery Career Center
Primary Care Associations and Professional Societies

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Primary Care Recruiting Services

LocumTenens.com is a full-service, physician recruiting agency focusing on Primary Care, including Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Pediatrics and Hospitalists. Contact us today and tell us what you’re looking for. Our physician recruiters will get to work finding the best job opportunities for you.

Our expert physician recruiters are eager to match you with the internal medicine, family practice, pediatric or hospitalist job that meets your needs. And don’t forget, we offer excellent compensation, paid malpractice insurance, credentialing and licensing assistance and make all travel and housing arrangements for you. Get started today.

Quick News Flash

The Senate Finance Committee, a key player in health care, met to discuss reform options in late April. One of their proposals was to add a 5% bonus to Medicare payments for primary care docs. It’s no secret that we need more primary care docs. It’s safe to assume that narrowing the salary gap between primary care and specialty medicine would entice new docs to consider primary care. The tricky part is how to pay for it. The outline from the meeting hesitantly gives two options: “An across-the-board reduction in payments for services under all other codes,” or “through funding from other sources,” which “would require finding new offsets.” Check out the complete proposal on page ten of this Senate Finance Committee outline.

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