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...
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA “Unless you can demonstrate your benefits, all you are left to compete with is price.” ― Jeffrey Fry 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 describing...
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...
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA “If you have two good friends at work, you’re almost guaranteed to like your job.” -Tom Rath, author, Vital Friends This year’s Association of Staff Physician Recruiters conference in August confirmed the notion that physician recruiters are...
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...
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free Traditionally, the purpose of medical staff development planning was to define where not-for-profit...