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It’s important that you perform a physician search in a timely manner. Regardless of whether you are staffing for a hospital, a doctor’s office, or any other healthcare facilities, you simply cannot allow a position for a physician to stay open for very long. You will be able to perform a search by following three simple steps. Step 1: Describe the Scope Not every physician has the same job description. You will need to determine the scope of work that you need a physician to be able to perform. You may have them working with children, adults, or even the elderly. You may also have them performing a variety of tasks. Before you can perform a physician search, it’s important that you define what they will be doing as it will make it easier for physicians to apply for the job. Step 2: Begin the Search Once you have described the scope, you can begin the search. A physician search needs to take place online as well as off-line. Physicians all around the country may be looking into your healthcare facility because it is in a particular area of the country that is highly desirable or because they have heard good things about your facility. As a result, you may have a large number of applicants – and this can become stressful for you. During the search, you should also reach out to a healthcare recruiting company. This will allow you to work with a recruiter that will specifically work to hire someone for your healthcare facility. They will ask for the scope of work and find out how much you intend to pay the physician. They will then work on the physician search for you. If they end up finding someone for you, you pay them a percentage of the person salary as a finder’s fee. Step 3: Make a Hiring Decision Once you have conducted the physician search, it is important to make a hiring decision once and for all. Prior to making the decision, you will want to conduct a background check on the individual and call around to their references to find out as much as you can about them. If you have narrowed down your selections to three or four, it is important to meet with each one again to be able to ask final questions and even to see how they work within the environment that you have to offer. Conducting a physician search needs to happen quickly. The longer you take, the more difficult it can be to run your operations. Patients don’t want to wait for an hour or longer in the waiting room. Other physicians don’t want to have to work extra hours in order to help maintain your practice. This means that you may not have the luxury of spending three or four weeks to conduct the search. By following three simple steps and engaging a recruiter, you can perform a physician search much faster. Whitaker Medical's goal is nothing less than providing our clients with the highest caliber of physicians available in the locum tenens, direct-hire and government contract physician search markets.
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