Physician Job Search: Tips and Advice
Since the physician job search is at its peak nowadays, I am posting a list of topics on physician job search, including physician employment contract etc. I hope summarizing them here will make it easy for everyone to access these articles. I am a physician myself and these articles are written without bias or conflict [...]
Are you late for physician job hunt? Last Minute Strategies
It is almost July and most of the residents should have landed a physician job. If not, but you are mulling over several physician job offers — then you are still good to go. But if you have not done a single interview yet or worse if you have not started applying yet, then you [...]
Timing your partnership in the medical practice
Many a times, an inexperienced physician is excited to find an offer of physician job where partnership is offered after the first year. Now just because he is going to become a partner aka owner of the medical practice, is not the formula for success. Timing of partnership in a medical practice is very crucial. [...]
Partnership in medical practice: Pros and Cons
Every graduating medical student has dreamt of owning a medical practice. It is the ultimate goal of becoming a physician. Why do most, if not all physicians want to own their practice. There are several reasons for that.
1) Physicians are intelligent and independent creatures. They became physicians in the first place to call the [...]
INNOVATIVE WAY OF PHYSICIAN JOB SEARCH – DIRECT MAIL
Dr Matthias Muenzer is a blogger who writes regularly on the topic of Physician job search. He has a collection of tips for physician job search on his website http;//www.obgyntips.blogspot.com. One of the innovative method mentioned on his blog is what I would like to call "DIRECT MAIL" ! I admit I never thought of this being a [...]
A letter from a physician recruiter
A comment was left on this website by a physician recruiter in response to my post on ‘Physician Recruiters: Whose side are they on?’ and ‘Physician Recruiters: How to use them to your advantage‘. I think the points he mentioned are worth mentioning in a post. It is only fair for me to allow him [...]
Physician Recruiters: How to use them to your advantage?
In my last post, we discussed the various conflicts of interest involving the physician recruiters, the physician employee and the physician candidate. But you should not completely cut them out of your job search strategy. Physician recruiters many times do have access to some great opportunities. If you are able to partner with a good [...]
Physician recruiters: Whose side are they on?
Do you get hundreds of phone calls from various physician recruiters? Ever wondered whose side are they on? Let us find out.
Physician recruiters are salespeople. There job is to sell you a ‘physician job’ or a ‘physician job interview’ depending on how the recruiters get paid. There is big money to be made in physician [...]
What to do in the last six months of medical residency?
If you are a third year resident then more than likely you have about six months left to complete the medical residency program. If you have not yet landed a physician job, then that is a priority. Quickly go through the articles on physician job hunting and get down to work. For those who are [...]
Starting a medical practice: Getting Hospital Privileges
Many medical insurance companies will require MDs to hold hospital privileges to qualify to be part of their medical network. If you want to do surgical procedures or round at the hospital, hospital privileges are needed. Obtaining hospital privileges are easy as of now. Hospitals needs MDs to send patients to their health care facilities. [...]
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