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AAAMC Releases Post-Healthcare-Reform Physician Shortage Estimates

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Jan 7, 2014 12:30:00 PM

Locum tenens can be part of the solution

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Workforce Studies has released new physician shortage estimates that are 50 percent worse than anticipated before health care reform legislation was passed.

The United States, like most of the world, is already facing a critical physician shortage. The problem will intensify as 32 million Americans acquire health care coverage, and an additional 36 million aging Baby Boomers qualify for Medicare.

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Attention Physicians with OnePass and Mileage Plus accounts

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Jul 31, 2013 12:59:00 PM

Travelers who have both a Continental Airlines OnePass and a United Airlines Mileage Plus account can now go online to link their accounts, combine elite qualifying activity, and request an elite status match. Through the combination process, some customers may achieve elite status for 2012 status after combining their UA/CO miles.

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Report on growing rural primary care shortage lists locum tenens as part of solution

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Jun 19, 2013 1:32:00 PM

The WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) Rural Health Research Center recently released a report on The Future of Family Medicine and Implications for Rural Primary Care Physician Supply. The study, written by Roger Rosenblatt, MD, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Washington School of Medicine, examines trends in specialty choice among new physicians, the rural primary care physician shortage, and the changing dynamics of rural health care delivery. It includes a list of initiatives and policy efforts that will help ease the shortage of primary care physicians in rural areas, and that list includes providing locum tenens support to protect rural physicians from burnout and isolation.

Topics: Industry Updates

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part VII

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Dec 2, 2010 3:24:00 PM

Note: This is the final installment in a seven-part series on best practices in physician executive recruiting.

Part VII:

Executive Search Timeline

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The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part VI

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Nov 1, 2010 4:27:00 PM

Part VI:

The Final Step

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The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part V

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Oct 1, 2010 4:29:00 PM

Note: This is the fifth installment in a seven-part series on best practices in physician executive recruiting.

Part V:

On-site interviews that WOW them

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The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part IV

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Sep 2, 2010 10:02:00 AM

Note: This is the fourth installment in a seven-part series on best practices in physician executive recruiting.

Part IV:

Screen IN before you screen OUT

Topics: Industry Updates

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part III

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Aug 2, 2010 10:11:00 AM

Note: This is the third installment in a seven-part series on best practices in physician executive recruiting.

Part III:

Creating a “resource compendium”

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The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part II

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Jul 2, 2010 10:13:00 AM

Note: This is the second installment in a seven-part series on best practices in physician executive recruiting.

Part II:

Fine-tune and agree upon selection criteria

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The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part I

Posted by VISTA Staffing on Jun 2, 2010 10:20:00 AM

Note: This is the first installment in a seven-part series on best practices in physician executive recruiting.

Part I:

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AAAMC Releases Post-Healthcare-Reform Physician Shortage Estimates

Locum tenens can be part of the solution

Attention Physicians with OnePass and Mileage Plus accounts

Report on growing rural primary care shortage lists locum tenens as part of solution

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part VII

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part VI

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part V

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part IV

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part III

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part II

The Search for Effective Physician Leaders: New Strategies for New Challenges, Part I

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