“What motivates me is forming close, working relationships with clients. When we’re working together in partnership and they achieve the results they want— it doesn’t get any better than that.”
Allison’s true passion is working side-by-side with physician leaders and their administrative partners to support leadership growth and development. She blends her coaching expertise with a wealth of hands-on experience leading physician strategy efforts within several healthcare organizations including practice management, physician and staff recruitment, new practice development, and provider retention.
Recent Posts and Articles
An Innovative Approach to Assessing Your Recruitment Strategies
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com "Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciation of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations; that is the art of choosing." – Sheena Iyengar The midpoint of the annual recruitment cycle has...
How Residency Training Affects Practice Choices
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com A client recently held an educational event for its family medicine residents. While the goal was to help the residents make post-training career decisions, the underlying assumption was to build awareness of...
Physician Recruitment: Take Advantage of the Holidays
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com Some see it as an opportunity to slow down but don’t let yourself be fooled. This is a great time to be doing all you can to build up your provider recruitment pipeline. Just adapt your approach to fit the time...
An Attitude Adjustment: It’ll Work Every Time
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com As the article title reflects, Hank Williams Jr. said it best in his 1984 hit song. Much has been written about attitude as a key ingredient for business success. Yes, positive attitudes do elevate...
Skills to Stay Relevant in Physician Recruitment
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com “Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of...
The Right Way to Express Gratitude
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com During a client’s physician leadership meeting, the hospital CEO expressed appreciation to them and their colleagues for “making the hospital volume so strong over the past few months.” My initial reaction was...
Does Your Physician Recruitment Process Need a Roadmap?
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com It’s important to define specific, concrete actions on the part of the prospect that cause them to be moved from one stage to the next. -Hubspot, Inc. A consistently reliable recruitment process can be tough to...
Physician Recruitment: Know your Product
By: Allison McCarthy | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com One of the basic tenets of sales is to know our product. In physician recruitment, product includes: Geographic location Hospital/Health System/Group Practice Practice opportunity including the details most...
The Art of Saying NO
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com Learning to say “no” effectively is one of the hardest skills to learn. For “can do” people like those of us in physician recruitment and relations roles, it can be particularly challenging. We know that...
Physicians Need Talent Development Too
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com "Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” -John C. Crosby The accountable care evolution has prompted much discussion on leadership development for physicians....