Featured blog post: Physicians ready to retire? Part-time work options could be the fix
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, August 25, 2009
Despite findings from government think-tanks that our nation appears to be emerging from economic woes, the fact remains that there are a great many physicians today who wanted to retire this year but didn’t because of economic and financial pressures.
According to a recently released 2008 Physician Retention Survey by Cejka Search and the AMGA, nearly two-thirds (62%) of survey respondents believe that physicians are delaying retirement due to the economy. How did organizations respond to the threat of their physicians’ retirement? Almost half (49%) of respondents said they find that part-time options are enabling physicians to delay retirement.
Medical groups are also generally willing to modify work schedules of pre-retirement physicians to encourage them to stay longer. . .Read more of this “Part-time work” post by Nancy Burns, MBA, at HospitalistLeadership.com.
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