by John G. Self | Nov 14, 2017 | Career Management, Recruiting
The battle to recruit primary care physicians (PCP) — family practice, internal medicine, and pediatricians – is on. Based on the growing shortages of PCPs, this should prove to be an epic slugfest. On one side you have health systems, hospitals, group practices and...
by John G. Self | Nov 2, 2017 | Healthcare, Recruiting
Organizations rarely report the cost of turnover in their financial statements, but they do talk about it. The issue of employee turnover comes up more and more frequently in leadership meetings. More often than not the emphasis is on nurses, therapists,...
by John G. Self | Nov 1, 2017 | Healthcare, Recruiting
LISTEN ON iTUNES Welcome to Self-Perspective, a weekly podcast with information and insight on career management and human capital issues. Today, our podcast will look at two sides of Physician Recruitment: The cost of recruiting and the often ignored cost of doctor...
by John G. Self | Aug 20, 2011 | Healthcare, Recruiting
There are four critical questions I believe that physicians should ask before submitting to the wooing calls of a recruiter. I need to disclose that I began my search career recruiting physicians. Secondly, while I no longer recruit physicians strictly for clinical...
by John G. Self | Feb 8, 2011 | Healthcare, Leadership
As healthcare leaders, policy analysts and journalists point with alarm to a growing shortage of physicians in the U.S., the fact that there is a widening gender gap – in compensation – is particularly troublesome. Newly trained women physicians are paid about $17,000...