Physician statistics are vitally important to the efficiency and effectiveness of recruiting. Knowing these statistics helps recruiters to better understand the target market and provides a gauge for recruiters to know how much or how little of the target market they currently possess. For the physicians’ perspective, statistics help them to assess the competition or […]
How to Close the Physician
The most important part of the recruitment process is closing the deal. How can you dramatically improve your close ratio? There are several things you can do which will better your odds at getting the physician you want most.
Ethics: Critical Issues addressed by the NAPR
The National Association of Physician Recruiters (NAPR) announced today a major education effort for members and healthcare entities, nationwide, regarding discrimination laws and discriminating hiring practices.
Recruiting and Training Physicians to Achieve their Full Potential as a Partner in Managed Care
Before managed care complicated the picture, physician recruitment was already a challenging process. Recruiters sought a blend of medical expertise and personality characteristics. Physicians were not only interested in the practice, but also in the management dynamics of local hospitals and the community’s appeal to their families. Today’s managed care environment adds a new dimension […]
Low Reimbursements, High Cost of Living Dim Recruitment
Boston is renowned for its prestigious teaching hospitals, but insiders fear its reputation may be slipping as the area continues to experience trouble recruiting doctors who can afford to live here.
How to Recruit the Right Physician to Match Your Managed Care Environment
Using the status of your local managed care market to drive the recruitment process enables you to determine a better match with a candidate.
How to Select and Influence Physicians to Successfully Operate in a Managed Care Environment
Today’s successful physicians possess a skill that their predecessors did not require: the ability to factor economic considerations into their clinical decisions. Finding doctors with this expertise is challenging because it is not part of their traditional training.
It Does Not Have to be a Battle
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? How to build a relationship between our in-house and out-of-house recruiters.