“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
Teamwork is a Must
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA I love football season and am surrounded by New England Patriots’ fanatics. Earlier this season after losing to the Green Bay Packers, the Pats headed straight to San Diego. While spending a week together may have seemed like a simple...
A New FOCUS for the New Year
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA How much we can change our results is often a function of focus. We live in a world of distractions with our computers and smart phones chirping at us with emails, phone calls or text messages. We've become so used to working this way that...
Physician Recruiting: ‘Tis the Season to Recruit
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA While most businesses tend to slow down over the holidays, physician recruitment does the opposite. The end of the year is a time when candidates are more available for interviews. Physicians, who are dissatisfied with their current...
Mastering Your Physician Recruitment Message
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA Read any physician recruitment posting and tell me, quick, what’s the benefit? If it doesn’t jump off the page, then it’s likely...
5 New Habits to Improve Physician Recruitment Results
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA They say it takes 21 days to change a habit. However, recently I read a blog that suggested it now takes, on average, 66 days to make a change stick. Either way, it takes focus to either break a bad habit or start a positive one. If you...
Physician Recruiter: Make your Work a “Happy” Place
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA This year’s Association of Staff Physician Recruiters conference in August confirmed the notion that physician...
PHYSICIAN RECRUITING: Healthcare leaders, take your mark
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA In today’s healthcare market the winner is the organization that delivers the best care to the most patients. To that end, organizations are recognizing the vital role of primary care physicians – and quickly realizing there are far too few...
Is Medical Staff Development Planning Still Relevant?
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA Traditionally, the purpose of medical staff development planning was to define where...
PHYSICIAN RECRUITING: The Irony of Endocrinology
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA It’s ironic that one of the fastest-growing health concerns in the U.S. is being treated by one of the most-dwindling specialties. According to Andrew Stewart, M.D., chief of the endocrinology division at the University of Pittsburgh in the...
New Physician Orientation – “You Know the Ship; They Don’t”
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA “Remember, you know the ship; they don’t.” That one line from the movie Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks, jumped out at me. For those who haven’t seen it, the film recounts the harrowing story of the Maersk Alabama, the cargo ship that...