Physician Recruitment: Tips and Strategies

It's a new year and the perfect time to revamp your healthcare recruiting strategies. The best way to start this, is to get a snapshot of where things stand regarding US healthcare shortages.

The American healthcare landscape has undergone dramatic changes over the last 30 years. This evolution is also prompting a change in Physician attitudes about their work, leaving them unwilling to recommend their profession to others.

As the holidays are approaching, physicians and most HCP's are looking forward to time off with their family to celebrate the season and take a much-needed break from the ongoing stress of long shifts and stressful days.

The Physician recruitment process is often challenging and fraught with obstacles. Some of these obstacles can be avoided by using tools like a recruitment process chart to help establish timelines and standards, while eliminating costly mistakes.

Healthcare Practitioners and technicians are the lifeblood of the American healthcare system. Their range of professional services and geographic distribution span a variety of specialties and regions of the country.

Healthcare recruiters with hard to fill positions need to know the most effective ways to both recruit and retain the professions' top talent. While filling difficult healthcare roles may seem challenging, there are physician recruitment strategies you can employ to increase the likelihood of finding a great fit.

Everyone, including healthcare recruiting professionals love to discover shiny new objects. We constantly crave the Next Big Thing. We get bored of stuff, even great stuff, much more quickly. If it's new, it MUST be better, faster, bigger, and cooler than whatever has been done in the past, right?

Millennial use of social media platforms is considerably different than that of previous generations. According to the Pew Research Center's Social Media Use in 2018 survey, most Millennials use at least four digital platforms.

Employee retention strategies are increasingly critical in the highly competitive medical job market. Losing a top employee can be devesting to both company morale and the bottom line. The time and money lost recruiting another employee, who may or may not be a good fit, can be exhausting.

Healthcare recruiting is a tough job. Sometimes the difference between being a good recruiter and a great recruiter is having access to the most up to date knowledge of your target candidate.

America's aging Baby Boomers are now entering their retirement years and changing the employment landscape as they go. As more senior Physicians are lost to retirement, the burden of Physician shortages will increase. More states will need more doctors soon.

Physician Assistants have become increasingly popular over the last 2 decades, quickly becoming a valued member in many medical organizations. The profession's popularity has increased due to the contributions and unique qualities these Advanced Practitioners bring to the table.

It is essential to share a common vision when working together on any project. This is especially important when working on organizational level recruitment efforts.

While the holidays are filled with joy and celebrating, it can also cause temporary financial hardships with holiday purchases and overindulgence. According to a MagnifyMoney survey, more than 50% of us fund our holiday purchases on credit cards and take an average of 5 months to pay it off.

Physician recruiting is always a challenge. Whether you are trying to fill an Attending vacancy at a well-known hospital or a small town Doc, finding a good candidate can be difficult. These challenges are even more pronounced for those seeking to place Family Medicine Physicians in rural settings.

Healthcare recruiting is a challenging job that requires strategy and persistence. To successfully place a candidate you must employ a variety of techniques to get the job done as quickly as possible. Time is money, and no one has time to use strategies that aren't effective.

Recruiting Physicians can be a real challenge. Factors like changing healthcare policies, Physician shortages and evolving attitudes about the workplace can test even the best recruiters in the quest to fill a vacancy. Taking advantage of available insights about your target audience...

The last 20 years has seen an emergence of the business side of medicine in healthcare. Physicians used to spend the lion share of their time caring for patients but changes in the healthcare landscape have required change. Today, Physicians must be knowledgeable about how to run both the clinic and the back office.

Millennials (aka Generation Y), are a much talked about generation that is coming of age and playing a big role in today's workforce. These men and women were born after 1980 and are currently the target recruitment demographic for Medical Residency positions around the U.S.

There is a lot going on in the area of healthcare reform right now. The proposed changes, commonly called Trumpcare, can upend the American healthcare landscape as we know it today. As with any changes, not all have positive outcomes.

In February of 2017, PracticeMatch conducted a national survey of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in a variety of practice settings, experience levels, and medical specialties.

Retaining great Physician talent is a tough game. Effective recruitment involves not only getting a great candidate in the door but having them stay. It is imperative to utilize effective screening tools when hiring a Physician to ensure that you are getting the best candidate for the opportunity.

America's healthcare system is currently facing a shortage of qualified Medical Providers. Many organizations are addressing this shortage by employing Advanced Practitioners known as Physician Assistants (PA) or Nurse Practitioners (NP). These Advanced Practitioners are qualified to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients found throughout medicine and are providing cost effective healthcare solutions.

A great measure of an organization is its employees. They reflect organizational values and attitudes and can be an effective and valuable recruiting tool. According to an iCIMS survey, 60% of employees have referred someone for a vacancy where they work with an average of 24% of new hires coming from such referrals.

It's a recruiting dream... The physician that is a perfect fit, the staff loves them and they stay with the organization working up to their retirement day. The reality is that recruits like these are not commonplace and the bottom line is when a Physician leaves an organization there are many losses. Losses in staff morale, revenue, coverage, patient satisfaction and funds invested in recruiting and training their replacement can hit an organization hard.

St. Louis, MO. September 15, 2016—With their services rapidly growing in demand, nurse practitioners and physician assistants enjoy growing career options as healthcare employers compete to hire them at an unprecedented rate. PracticeMatch, a national corporation providing healthcare recruiting resources and clinical candidate leads to healthcare employers across the US, surveyed 1,070 advanced practice clinicians regarding their career goals and job preferences to provide some insight on today's highly competitive recruiting climate for NPs and PAs.

Recruiting a physician for a rural location can be like finding a needle in a haystack. But don't be discouraged–try using a "magnet" to find that needle. As such, consider these tips from physicians who truly enjoy living and working in a rural setting.

There's no single 'silver bullet' or one-size-fits-all method to a recruitment search. Like a snowflake, no two recruitment searches are ever alike. So you need to have a variety of tools in your tool belt if you want to be a successful recruiter.

Despite the shortage, Mr. Walker and his team at IU have been winning at this "arms race"–they've recruited 45 new PCPs to the IU Health System in the past 18 months. "Our goal is to recruit 60-plus primary care physicians over a 2 and a half to 3-year period, and we're on track to knock that goal out of the park," he adds.

As the saying goes, "80% of success is showing up" That saying may be mostly tongue–in–cheek but there's a lot of truth to it. For physicians on the job hunt, they say that a successful recruiter is one who will at least "show up"–this simply means that you.

Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest living generation, with about 100 million Americans in their teens, 20s, and early 30s. Born between 1982 and 2004, these young adults include the new generation of physicians you're recruiting—but they're not your traditional physicians. If you want to recruit–and retain–them, here's what you need to know.

There's no second chance to make a good first impression, as the saying goes. That's why it's important that when you schedule a site visit with a candidate, you do it right–right from the start. Here are a few helpful "do's" and "don'ts" for scheduling and hosting a successful site visit.

Want to learn how to make the most of your job postings, how to streamline your search, how to source more (and more appropriate) physicians — and how to stay smiling while doing it all? Here, two recruiting experts share five tried-and-true tips for busy physician recruiters.