Featured blog post: Down economy makes recruiting physicians from afar more difficult
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, April 21, 2009
It seems that everywhere you go these days you hear someone talking about the economy. The 2008 Physician Retention Survey by the American Medical Group Association and Cejka Search took a closer look at how the economy is affecting efforts to recruit physicians from outside the local community.
As a recruitment incentive, most medical groups (96%) stated they offer relocation assistance for their physicians. Medical groups most commonly cover expenses for a moving company (92%) and transportation (66%).Other types of assistance offered include realtor fees (10%), low-cost home loans (6%), and housing subsidies (4%). . . Read more of “Down economy” post by Nancy Burns, MBA, on HospitalistLeadership.com.
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