In most cases, in-person consultation with a psychiatrist would be preferable to a video conference. However, when patients have limited access to in-person visits, telepsychiatry can fill a pressing need – a need that is already quite large, and likely to grow.
Topics: Advanced Practice Providers
There are many great perks to being a locum tenens provider, as well as a few additional responsibilities that come with the territory. Your assignments will take you to new, interesting places, where you’ll meet new, interesting people – but this exciting adventure takes you away from your home and quite often living out of a suitcase.
Topics: Physicians
Check out our favorite Australian shots from July including a manta ray we spotted in the river from our deck and the first koala we saw in the wild.
Topics: Stories From VISTA Physicians
Recent national surveys reveal that hospitalists are the most sought-after providers for locum tenens opportunities in the industry. Patients’ preferences for on-site and immediate assistance, as well as a personal approach to their specific healthcare needs, have created a growing demand for attentive and available physicians on a consistent basis. A hospitalist’s ability to manage acute care patients in addition to developing and managing aspects of hospital operations allows facilities to optimize their operations resulting in greater management and care. Many studies are additionally showing that hospitalists can reduce a patients’ length of stay up to 30% and hospital costs up to 20%.
Topics: Industry Updates
Kurt Scott Director, Physician Search and Consulting at VISTA Staffing Solutions
If your organization makes a lot of offers to physicians that don’t get accepted, (i.e., you send out a lot of contracts that never get signed), try this approach to increase your percentages. I’ve seen this process increase the percentage of signed contracts to as high as 80 percent.
Topics: Physicians
New research indicates that fears about expanding the role of nurse practitioners(NPs) for primary care may very well be unfounded. In fact, the data suggests full practice NPs can create better patient outcomes when compared to the outcomes in states where full practice NPs are not allowed.
Topics: Physicians
The deadline for submitting abstracts for presentations at the Center for Global Surgery’s first nationwide conference, Extreme Affordability: Innovative Solutions for Surgical Care, has been extended to March 5, 2012, to accommodate continued interest from presenters. Registration for the conference continues as well.
Find out more at http://medicine.utah.edu/globalsurgeryconference/email/globalconference_email.html.
The conference, which will be held March 22-23, in Salt Lake City, Utah, is sponsored by the newly established Center for Global Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Catherine deVries, MD, director of the Center for Global Surgery, is also founder and president of IVUmed, a non-profit organization I work with as a volunteer surgeon, teacher, and mentor, and as a member of the board of directors. VISTA Staffing has been a long-time supporter of IVUmed, and VISTA’s executive vice president, Katie Hoffman Abby, also serves on our board of directors.
Presentations at the conference will focus on innovations for providing globally sustainable, affordable surgery. Course topics that have already been accepted include:
- The Surgical Ecosystem
- The Need: Essential Surgery
- Measuring Cost
- Conceptualizing Sustainability
- BioDesign: Engineering for Extreme Affordability
- Surgery for Low Resource Environments
- Supply and Demand: What do we want? What do we need?
- From Entrepreneurship to Global Health
- Programs That Work: From the Himalayas to Africa, From Mongolia to Utah
Keynoters address disruptive innovation and hands-on experience
“While the need is clearly greatest in resource-poor countries and in rural areas, ‘disruptive’ innovations will ultimately reduce the cost of surgery for everyone, everywhere,” says Catherine. “That’s why we are especially excited to have Clayton Christensen, MBA, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Prescription, delivering one keynote address.” Christensen is a thought leader in the area of disruptive innovation, particularly as it relates to the economics of less-developed countries.
This keynote address is presented by the Intermountain Healthcare Healthy Dialogues Lecture Series.
A second keynote address will be given by Geoffrey Tabin, MD, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, director of the Division of International Ophthalmology at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah, and founder of The Himalayan Cataract Program. Co-founded by Dr. Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, MD, The Himalayan Cataract Program provides life-altering cataract surgery for only $20 US to the neediest patients in the world’s most remote places.
Additional conference faculty members are drawn from ministries of health, the International Finance Corporation, entrepreneurs, bioengineers, specialists in public health, anthropologists and educators, and surgeons. Members of the surgical community, students, and the broader academic, policy, business, engineering, and general communities are encouraged to attend.
Visit the conference website to register, submit an abstract, or learn more:
http://medicine.utah.edu/globalsurgeryconference/email/globalconference_email.html.
Topics: VISTA
In a recent TEDTalk*, Atul Gawande set out his prescription for healing medicine. Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and a staff writer for The New Yorker. His talk included a little history, a little psychology, and, in my opinion, good news for locum tenens physicians.
Topics: Industry Updates
At VISTA Staffing, our goal is to provide consistent information and healthcare staffing solutions in an ever-changing industry.
Check out the infographic below on how the industry is expected to change in the next 5 years - and how Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants will help fill the gap in Primary Care!
Topics: Physicians
Over the years, primary care has lost its rank among the highly sought-after specialties. In most cases, it is no longer considered a glamorous career choice for a physician. Many medical school graduates are seeking more prestigious and financially lucrative specialties. However, there are some real advantages to choosing primary care over other medical disciplines. There are good reasons to think differently about primary care. Here are the top five reasons to consider a career as a primary care physician:
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