When looking for the best physician job, there are a few places on line you should turn to. By searching for the term "physician jobs" today, the top sites will be listed based upon Google's page ranking process. I believe any of these are good places to browse for physician jobs. You will invariably find noticeable differences between the sites ranging from format, varying depth of specialty listings, to frequency of updated postings.
There are also several new sites that are yet unranked - one of my favorites is MyJobPulse.com. You can find a great number of very current job postings here. This is similar to many new physician job sites not yet overrun with an enormous volume of postings. Below however, are listed some of the well established and older of the best sites; I would encourage you to consider these when looking for your next physician job. Good luck with your job search!
www.nejmjobs.org
www.therecruiter.com
www.practicelink.com
www.doctorjobplacement.com
www.employmentforphysicians.com
www.physiciandepot.com
www.acponline.org/jobs
www.physicianrecruiting.com
www.mdjobsite.com
www.physicianwork.com
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Emergency Physicians Jobs in Today’s Healthcare Environment
It seems that there are so many emergency medicine job opportunities, yet so few long-term stable emergency physicians in jobs. Much of this has to do with the ever-changing practice environment and at times tenuous relationship with the hospital, consultant medical staff, and regulatory bodies. Resultantly, stability even for the seemingly most sought after emergency medicine jobs is never assured or guaranteed. In this article, the author explores common practice challenges for emergency physician jobs in today’s healthcare environment.
Today, emergency physicians find themselves working in a crisis environment. This is largely a result of our Nation’s emergency departments (EDs) are the only sector of the healthcare system where there is a federal statue mandating that care is provided to all patient regardless of their ability to pay. Imagine if you will, a law requiring all of those fast quick lube shops to take all motorists, regardless of their ability to pay! Between the years of 1994 and 2004, ED visits increased from 93.4 million to 110.2 million—an 18 percent increase. Meanwhile, there was a significant decline in the numbers of hospitals, hospital beds, and emergency departments. The resultant overcrowding long waits, coupled with an under supply of ancillary support, makes for a crisis work environment.
Emergency physicians will also find that the rest of medical community inadvertently exacerbates the existing crisis. The perceived need for hospitals to funnel as many patients as possible through their EDs cripples many tenuous EDs both financially and medically. Primary care delivered in the ED is more costly than providing the same care in a physician's office, and primary medical care received through the ED is of poorer quality. Emergency Physicians have extensive training in medical and surgical emergency management and treatment, however, primary care is best reserved for Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics. According to the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey , 47% of emergency department visits in 2004 were classified as either emergent (12.9 percent) or urgent (37.8 percent). The delivery of primary care in the ED for non-emergent patient care contributes to ED overcrowding, patient boarding, ambulance diversion, and delayed ambulance response times on a daily basis. Resultantly, this severely limits the system's ability to prepare for and respond to a catastrophic medical disaster, natural disaster, pandemic or terrorist attack.
Emergency physician are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain much needed on call assistance for patients needing hospitalization. This is largely because of uncompensated or under compensated services provided by on call specialist, coupled with rising unresolved medical liability and regulation. Although once attractive for new graduates, most new physicians now prefer the security afforded by larger well-established groups to the financial vagaries and lifestyle restrictions of solo practice. In so doing, taking ED call becomes more of an unwanted burden than an opportunity.
The burden is worsened when other factors not previously mentioned are considered. For example, the ever-present medical malpractice threat looms over emergency medicine. Nowhere else in medicine can the actions of one specialist always be criticized by what is viewed by the lay public as a true specialist in anther specialty. Despite being the best person to manage for example an emergency airway, the ED physician will always be subject to the ‘definitive’ opinion from the true expert – the anesthesiologist; as well as the cardiologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, etc. Likewise, the pressure of benchmark performance, throughput, volume and acuity of patients seen per hour, patient satisfaction, patient complaints and admission rates all weight into the equation. The emergency physician also must balance not only the patient as the ‘customer’ but the medical staff, hospital administration, and to some extent the nursing staff as well. Whereas in other aspects of medicine where the nurse works subordinate to the physician; often in the ED, due to supply and demand, nurses are having an increasingly louder voice in influencing the practice and judgment of physicians in the ED (which may in fact be a good thing for many department and physicians). Nonetheless, this too affects the emergency physician job.
In general, today’s emergency physician is faced with numerous challenges and stressors making for crisis in the workplace. This crisis directly affects the likelihood of emergency physicians finding lasting job stability, in a given practice location in most cities in the US. Federal support and intervention is needed to release the mounting pressure that currently worsening. The Institute of Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians, and similar institutions are taking great strides in leading change - none of which can come all too soon.
Today, emergency physicians find themselves working in a crisis environment. This is largely a result of our Nation’s emergency departments (EDs) are the only sector of the healthcare system where there is a federal statue mandating that care is provided to all patient regardless of their ability to pay. Imagine if you will, a law requiring all of those fast quick lube shops to take all motorists, regardless of their ability to pay! Between the years of 1994 and 2004, ED visits increased from 93.4 million to 110.2 million—an 18 percent increase. Meanwhile, there was a significant decline in the numbers of hospitals, hospital beds, and emergency departments. The resultant overcrowding long waits, coupled with an under supply of ancillary support, makes for a crisis work environment.
Emergency physicians will also find that the rest of medical community inadvertently exacerbates the existing crisis. The perceived need for hospitals to funnel as many patients as possible through their EDs cripples many tenuous EDs both financially and medically. Primary care delivered in the ED is more costly than providing the same care in a physician's office, and primary medical care received through the ED is of poorer quality. Emergency Physicians have extensive training in medical and surgical emergency management and treatment, however, primary care is best reserved for Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics. According to the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey , 47% of emergency department visits in 2004 were classified as either emergent (12.9 percent) or urgent (37.8 percent). The delivery of primary care in the ED for non-emergent patient care contributes to ED overcrowding, patient boarding, ambulance diversion, and delayed ambulance response times on a daily basis. Resultantly, this severely limits the system's ability to prepare for and respond to a catastrophic medical disaster, natural disaster, pandemic or terrorist attack.
Emergency physician are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain much needed on call assistance for patients needing hospitalization. This is largely because of uncompensated or under compensated services provided by on call specialist, coupled with rising unresolved medical liability and regulation. Although once attractive for new graduates, most new physicians now prefer the security afforded by larger well-established groups to the financial vagaries and lifestyle restrictions of solo practice. In so doing, taking ED call becomes more of an unwanted burden than an opportunity.
The burden is worsened when other factors not previously mentioned are considered. For example, the ever-present medical malpractice threat looms over emergency medicine. Nowhere else in medicine can the actions of one specialist always be criticized by what is viewed by the lay public as a true specialist in anther specialty. Despite being the best person to manage for example an emergency airway, the ED physician will always be subject to the ‘definitive’ opinion from the true expert – the anesthesiologist; as well as the cardiologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, etc. Likewise, the pressure of benchmark performance, throughput, volume and acuity of patients seen per hour, patient satisfaction, patient complaints and admission rates all weight into the equation. The emergency physician also must balance not only the patient as the ‘customer’ but the medical staff, hospital administration, and to some extent the nursing staff as well. Whereas in other aspects of medicine where the nurse works subordinate to the physician; often in the ED, due to supply and demand, nurses are having an increasingly louder voice in influencing the practice and judgment of physicians in the ED (which may in fact be a good thing for many department and physicians). Nonetheless, this too affects the emergency physician job.
In general, today’s emergency physician is faced with numerous challenges and stressors making for crisis in the workplace. This crisis directly affects the likelihood of emergency physicians finding lasting job stability, in a given practice location in most cities in the US. Federal support and intervention is needed to release the mounting pressure that currently worsening. The Institute of Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians, and similar institutions are taking great strides in leading change - none of which can come all too soon.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Physician Job Opportunities Emailed Directly to You - a different way of job searching
Several recruiting firms and job boards are now offering a new way of advertising their physician job opportunities - email alerts. We look at one such job board and their email alert process.
Job seeking physicians can now receive email alert notifications of specific physician job opportunities from MyJobPulse.com™. This innovative program enables registered physicians to receive physician job alert notifications. The email alerts are physician, specialty, state, city, and any desired key word specific. As soon as an employer or recruiter posts a job matching the physician’s specific criteria, an email alert notification is immediately sent to the physician job seeker. This allows the physician to be one of the first candidates to review and apply for the specific job if desired. Good physician jobs are hard to find – really great job opportunities are filled fast. Email alert notification at MyJobPulse.com™ provides job seeking physicians with an added ‘early bird’ advantage. Registered physicians can also enter an unlimited number of email alert criteria, and this services is provided free of charge.
MyJobPulse.com™ currently posts over 1,400 new physician jobs. All jobs listed have been posted within the past 3 months. This is new email alert feature is particularly exciting for many job seeking physicians and surgeons because it takes the search and find factor out of job seeking. Now physicians can let the jobs come to them! Doctors do not want to waste time browsing outdated, filled, or old opportunities. Physicians and surgeons can now turn to MyJobPulse to search for and find current physician job opportunities from any specialty.
Currently, there is a tremendous amount of turnover in the physician and surgeon job market. MyJobPulse.com™ provides a resource for both physicians to search listed job opportunities, and employers to post physician openings. Physician email alert notification is an exciting and long awaited service dedicated solely to physicians and surgeons. Job seeking physicians should have a reliable, updated, and easy to use resource for physician job listings. MyJobPulse.com™ allows doctors to search our exclusive physician database, or receive email alerts regarding solely physician and surgeon job opportunities.
Job seeking physicians can now receive email alert notifications of specific physician job opportunities from MyJobPulse.com™. This innovative program enables registered physicians to receive physician job alert notifications. The email alerts are physician, specialty, state, city, and any desired key word specific. As soon as an employer or recruiter posts a job matching the physician’s specific criteria, an email alert notification is immediately sent to the physician job seeker. This allows the physician to be one of the first candidates to review and apply for the specific job if desired. Good physician jobs are hard to find – really great job opportunities are filled fast. Email alert notification at MyJobPulse.com™ provides job seeking physicians with an added ‘early bird’ advantage. Registered physicians can also enter an unlimited number of email alert criteria, and this services is provided free of charge.
MyJobPulse.com™ currently posts over 1,400 new physician jobs. All jobs listed have been posted within the past 3 months. This is new email alert feature is particularly exciting for many job seeking physicians and surgeons because it takes the search and find factor out of job seeking. Now physicians can let the jobs come to them! Doctors do not want to waste time browsing outdated, filled, or old opportunities. Physicians and surgeons can now turn to MyJobPulse to search for and find current physician job opportunities from any specialty.
Currently, there is a tremendous amount of turnover in the physician and surgeon job market. MyJobPulse.com™ provides a resource for both physicians to search listed job opportunities, and employers to post physician openings. Physician email alert notification is an exciting and long awaited service dedicated solely to physicians and surgeons. Job seeking physicians should have a reliable, updated, and easy to use resource for physician job listings. MyJobPulse.com™ allows doctors to search our exclusive physician database, or receive email alerts regarding solely physician and surgeon job opportunities.
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