Locum Tenens Jobs: What You Need to Know
By Erica Ronchetti A locum tenens physician is a doctor who is temporarily employed in a practice or location until the position is filled permanently. Locum tenens jobs allow traveling professionals to fill in the gaps, ensuring a fully staffed facility and an opportunity for physicians to gain valuable knowledge in real life settings. Locum tenens is a great opportunity to experience different locations and practices before making...
The Health Care Cycle of Need
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN In researching topics like health care reform, the physician shortage, and other topics hopefully of interest to Locum Tenens physician job holders, I have noticed a pattern amongst the medical specialty areas most in need of physicians. The areas where physicians, other primary care providers such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and Locum tenens physicians are needed the most, include...
Top-Paying Medical Specialties
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Forbes.com recently released lists of the best and worst paying medical specialty areas. The list of top-paying medical specialties is doctors working in orthopedic surgery, cardiology, urology, gastroenterology, radiology, otolaryngology, anesthesiology, hematology-oncology, general surgery, and dermatology. On the lower end of the pay scale are pediatrics, family practice, internal medicine,...
Who Will Care For the Newly Insured?
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Hospitals and clinics across the country, especially in rural, inner city and other underserved areas, are already hurting for primary care physicians, especially in general and family practice roles. Now, inject approximately 46 million more patients into the health care system and watch that hurt become a serious pain. Thankfully, Locum Tenens jobs are multiplying and Locum Tenens Physicians are...
Anatomy of Physician Shortage
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN In 1960’s America the government and health advisory groups were concerned about an imminent surplus of physicians. They wondered how the nation’s health care system would be able to accommodate the coming onslaught of doctors. They cited studies that supposedly supported their data and ignored the reports from recruiters and hospitals that were already starting to have trouble attracting...