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Strategies for Nurturing Long-Term PMHNPs Talent
Each year, one in five American adults experiences a mental health condition. Psychiatric nurses fulfill a critical role in treating ...
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The Benefits of Continuing Education in the Medical Field
The imperative for continuous learning in the medical field has never been more important. The nature of medical science, technological ...
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The Financial Impact of Staffing Shortages in Hospitals
Healthcare staffing shortages have emerged as a critical and chronic challenge with far-reaching consequences. Hospitals face many issues when grappling ...
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Overworked and Overstressed: How Healthcare Professionals Can Find Peace Through Mindfulness
Overworked and Overstressed: How Healthcare Professionals Can Find Peace Through Mindfulness
Healthcare burnout reached a peak in 2023. One survey showed burnout stretching across job descriptions; 54% of clinical staff and ...
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Psychiatrist Compensation Trends: Tips to Attract Top Talent MedSource
Psychiatrist Compensation Trends: Tips to Attract Top Talent
In recent years, psychiatry has witnessed significant shifts in compensation trends. This is reflecting the evolving landscape of healthcare, increased ...
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The Role of On-Site Physicians in Today's Healthcare Landscape
The Role of On-Site Physicians in Today’s Healthcare Landscape
Amid emerging trends like telehealth, having a physical presence with your physicians is crucial in preserving the quality of patient ...
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Innovations in Psychiatry to Know for 2024
From diagnosis to treatment, technology is revolutionizing how mental health professionals approach their work. In this article, we explore key ...
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Streamline Healthcare Recruitment: The Key to Resolving High Turnover and Protracted Hiring Cycles
The Key to Resolving High Turnover and Protracted Hiring Cycles In Healthcare
In the increasingly competitive healthcare environment, improving your organizations recruitment practices is an essential. One way to optimizing your practices ...
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Expanding Mental Health Services with PMHNPs
Expanding Mental Health Services with PMHNPs
In recent years, significant strides have been made in understanding and destigmatizing mental health issues. However, mental health stigma persists, ...
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Streamlining Pediatrician Hiring: How a Staffing Firm Can Help
Streamlining Pediatrician Hiring: How a Staffing Firm Can Help
The recruitment and retention of pediatricians are essential for healthcare facilities that provide care to children and adolescents. The demand ...
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How a Staffing Firm Benefits Healthcare Facilities and OBGYN Specialists
The OBGYN field encompasses a wide range of women's healthcare needs, from prenatal care to surgical interventions. Like all healthcare ...
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Better Managing Family Medicine Teams With a Staffing Partner MedSource Consultants
Better Managing Family Medicine Teams With a Staffing Partner
Family medicine teams are the foundation of comprehensive primary healthcare, responsible for providing a wide range of medical services to ...
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Navigating Salary Expectations for Locum Tenens Healthcare Workers
Navigating Salary Expectations for Locum Tenens Healthcare Workers
Locum tenens healthcare workers play a crucial role in filling temporary staffing gaps within the healthcare industry. These professionals, including ...
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The Importance of Pay Transparency When Hiring Healthcare Leadership MedSource Consultants
The Importance of Pay Transparency When Hiring Healthcare Leadership
There’s a growing demand for pay transparency in hiring. Some states now require that companies list salary compensation in their ...
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Difference Between an NP and PMHNP? What is a Better Career for You?
Difference Between an NP and PMHNP? What is a Better Career for You?
Healthcare offers many options for career opportunities, particularly if you're interested in providing medical care and support to patients. Among ...
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How to Attract and Keep Your Locum Tenens Provider Happy
How to Attract and Keep Your Locum Tenens Provider Happy
You know the expression, “Happy wife, happy life?” It also applies to your clinical teams. If you take care of ...
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Work With a Recruiter to Craft a Standout Medical Resume
Work With a Recruiter to Craft a Standout Medical Resume
The shortage of healthcare workers is widely publicized. But even in healthcare, job seekers compete for the best jobs. That’s ...
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Redefining Success and Work-Life Balance in the Medical Field MedSource Consultants
Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Prioritizing Self-Care as a Medical Professional
In the fast-paced world of medicine, success has long been intertwined with dedication, long working hours, and sacrificing personal well-being ...
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Mastering Staffing Contract Negotiations in the Medical Industry MedSource Consultants
Mastering Staffing Contract Negotiations in the Medical Industry
With many challenges prevailing, healthcare organizations often turn to staffing agencies to fulfill their workforce needs.  In 2022, 88 percent of ...
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Crafting a Medical CV in 2023: The Key to Landing Your Dream Job
Crafting a Medical CV in 2023: The Key to Landing Your Dream Job
In the competitive world of healthcare, a compelling curriculum vitae (CV) is your passport to unlocking the medical career you've ...
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What Should I Ask Before Accepting a Leadership Role in Medicine?
What Should I Ask Before Accepting a Leadership Role in Medicine?
The higher you go up the chain of command in healthcare, the more you need to make sure you’re finding ...
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How to Survive This Year's Physician Shortage
How to Survive This Year’s Physician Shortage
The physician shortage has been a problem for years. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the issue. Healthcare facilities across ...
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Boutique Staffing Agencies Offer Great Opportunities for Locum Tenens
Boutique Staffing Agencies: Offering the Best Opportunities for Locum Tenens Assignments
Sometimes a generalist just isn’t what you need. When it comes to locum tenens, there is little chance that a ...
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Is Telehealth Here to Stay? MedSource Consultants
Is Telehealth Here to Stay?
Telehealth services, a class of healthcare delivery mechanisms rooted in digital care, have been around since the 1950s. During COVID, ...
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The Benefit of Hybrid Healthcare Models When You Can't Do Telehealth MedSource Consultants
The Benefit of Hybrid Healthcare Models When You Can’t Do Telehealth
COVID did more than drive our workforce into remote work arrangements. The latest trends show that the pandemic also shifted ...
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3 Things to Offer Medical Leaders Other Than Salary MedSource Consultants
3 Things to Offer Medical Leaders Other Than Salary
You see a lot in healthcare recruiting. You quickly learn that there will always be another offer with a higher ...
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How to Be a Great Physician Leader & Mistakes to Avoid MedSource Consultants
How to Be a Great Physician Leader & Mistakes to Avoid
Most doctors are intelligent and highly skilled. They’ve spent years learning their craft. However, we often look to these knowledge ...
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The Importance of Servant Leadership for Physicians MedSource Consultants
The Importance of Servant Leadership for Physicians
You may have heard the term “servant leadership” in healthcare. It’s a leadership style in which the head of the ...
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5 Tips for Hiring Top Advanced Practitioners MedSource Consultants
5 Tips for Hiring Top Advanced Practitioners
In most healthcare organizations, advanced practitioners play a critical role in creating better patient care. As healthcare continues to evolve ...
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The 10 Best States to Work in As a Physician MedSource Consultants
The 10 Best States to Work in As a Physician
Where you practice matters. It’s not just a lifestyle issue, either. Reimbursement, compliance rules, and even the salary you receive ...
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Soft Skills to Look for When Adding to Your Healthcare Leadership Team
Soft Skills to Look for When Adding to Your Healthcare Leadership Team
You’ve heard about soft skills. They remain critically important to any job. But they are perhaps more important in healthcare, ...
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Is Chasing the Highest Salary Always the Right Decision for Medical Leaders?
Is Chasing the Highest Salary Always the Right Decision for Medical Leaders?
Knowing what you’ll look for in a new job is essential to finding the right fit. For medical leaders, finding ...
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Looking to Hire for Locum Tenens Roles? Here's Why You Should Consider Retired Physicians
Looking to Hire for Locum Tenens Roles? Here’s Why You Should Consider Retired Physicians
Many physicians aren’t ready to hang up their stethoscopes when retirement age arrives. Locum tenens allows them a way to ...
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The Importance of Focusing on Your Own Mental Health as a Physician
The Importance of Focusing on Your Own Mental Health as a Physician
Emergency Medicine recently published a study that states, “It has been known for almost 150 years that physicians have an ...
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3 Ways to Adapt to Current Psychiatrist Shortages
3 Ways to Adapt to Current Psychiatrist Shortages
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) says, “The U.S. had too few psychiatrists even before COVID-19 increased rates of ...
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Physician Shortages are Here and Reaching Crisis Levels: Everything You Need to Know
Physician Shortages are Here and Reaching Crisis Levels: Everything You Need to Know
It’s safe to assume there isn’t a single clinician or healthcare administrator out there today that doesn’t know about the ...
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Technology Solutions Physicians NEED to Embrace
Technology Solutions Physicians NEED to Embrace
Physicians and technology. Not necessarily a match made in heaven – but the truth is, technology can bring added value ...
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How Shortening Your Hiring Process Can Get You Better Talent
How Shortening Your Hiring Process Can Get You Better Talent
Every time you open a job, the clock starts ticking. Most recruiting teams are familiar with the time-to-hire metric. The ...
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3 Ways to Adapt to Current Psychiatrist Shortages
Why You’re Struggling to Find Advanced Practitioners Post-Pandemic
The pandemic has dealt a historic blow to the health care system, further contributing to our advanced practitioner shortage. Despite ...
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How Can Healthcare Recruiters Find You Better Leaders?
Today, the best talent is proactively sourced. If your hiring team is waiting around for a healthcare leader to find ...
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Can a Healthcare Recruiter Find Me an Unadvertised Position?
Can a Healthcare Recruiter Find Me an Unadvertised Position?
We can answer the title post of this blog in one word: Yes. Unadvertised jobs are the hidden gems of ...
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How to Hire the BEST Telehealth Provider
How to Hire the BEST Telehealth Provider
The utilization of telehealth skyrocketed during the pandemic.  Patients and their clinicians were asked to socially distance and look for ...
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The Who, What, Why of Locums MedSource Consultants
The Who, What, Why of Locums
Locum tenens work, those drop-in contract positions in healthcare are on the rise. HealthLeaders quotes a hospital administrator as saying, “Virtually every hospital ...
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3 Things Every Healthcare Organization Looks for in a Cover Letter
3 Things Every Healthcare Organization Looks for in a Cover Letter
If you are wondering if cover letters still matter, the short answer is yes.  Some opinions suggest that modern-day recruiting methods ...
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3 Tips for Finding Healthcare Professionals That Fit Your Company Culture MedSource Consultants
3 Tips for Finding Healthcare Professionals That Fit Your Company Culture
Culture matters. While a clinical or administrative new hire needs hard skills to complete healthcare tasks, they must also fit ...
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Why Now is Better Than Ever for Finding a Job in the Healthcare Field
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says healthcare occupations will grow by 16% through 2030, which is much faster than ...
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5 Secret Weapons of the Best Healthcare Recruitment Firms
Massive physician shortages continues to trend up. But you know this already. Everyone in the healthcare field is struggling to ...
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Boutique Staffing Agencies Offer Great Opportunities for Locum Tenens
Is Having a Professional Network Important?
Ask any c-suite executive in the healthcare space and they will confirm that, yes, a professional network matters. But what ...
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How to Bridge the Gap Between Patient Experience and Digital Transformation
It’s a changing world driven by digital transformation. With 41% of your patients saying they would stop using your practice ...
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Bigger is Not Always Better: The Advantage of Working with a Boutique Healthcare Staffing Agency
Talent shortages in healthcare pose serious issues for the facilities and their patients.  So when a key hire is imperative ...
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What Legalized Cannabis Means for Hospitals
The rise of marijuana as a legal substance has been steady over the past several years. Today, cannabis is now ...
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How to Survive This Year's Physician Shortage
Survival Tips for Working the Night Shift at the Hospital
There are fewer roles in healthcare that are as misunderstood as that of the night-shift team. While the rest of ...
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How to Hire the BEST Telehealth Provider
Medical Coding & Billing Errors: The Big Consequences
Mistakes are inevitable when you’re dealing with a system as complex as hospital billing. Some sources cite the error rate ...
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Why a Career in Internal Medicine Can Open More Doors
Any career is full of paths to choose, and medicine is no exception. If you’re studying to be a doctor, ...
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3 Reasons Accepting a Rural Healthcare Job Has Its Benefits
Rural communities have traditionally had difficulty attracting healthcare providers. Currently, about 20% of the U.S. population lives in rural communities, ...
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Staffing Shortages Fuel Locum Tenens Needs
Despite falling COVID-19 cases and 150 million Americans fully vaccinated, healthcare facilities continue to face severe staffing shortages.  What once ...
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Finding a Job After Residency: What NOT to Do
Every part of what you do now, including creating your CV, looking for job openings, writing cover letters, dressing for ...
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3 Tips for Finding Healthcare Professionals That Fit Your Company Culture MedSource Consultants
How to Ensure Gender Equity in Healthcare Hiring
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports the healthcare sector is made up of 70% women. However, there is an 11% ...
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8-Minute Mindful Meditation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6XyyhMIdSo Your Mental Health Matters to us. Please enjoy our gift to you – a personalized guided meditation. Compliments from ...
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Is Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant a More Competitive Career?
If you are looking to have significant influence in the health care sector but prefer not to pursue a a ...
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What the Shortage of Mental Health Professionals Means for Hiring
The demand for psychiatric nurse practitioners and physician assistants is at an all-time high, and the latest data shows that ...
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The Who, What, Why of Locums MedSource Consultants
Have Your State’s Physician Licensing Requirements Been Waived?
Roughly one year ago, state-specific licensure requirements were temporarily waived. This meant out-of-state providers could practice across state lines without ...
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Is Telehealth Here to Stay? MedSource Consultants
Telemedicine Was Already on the Rise, But What’s Next?
Telemedicine, which is a clinical encounter video conferencing, has been around for 50-years. Prior to the pandemic, most hospitals had ...
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Expanding Mental Health Services with PMHNPs
Is the IoT Impacting the Healthcare Industry?
The era of the Internet of Things (IoT) is upon us. By 2025 there will be up to 75 billion ...
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Best Practices for Recruiting Passive Nurse Practitioner Talent
Passive recruiting has proven to be an effective way to solicit top candidates in the healthcare field. Recruiters that fail ...
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How the Family Physician Market is Evolving
In healthcare, change is constant. This includes the evolution of the candidate and job market for clinical and non-clinical teams. ...
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Technology Solutions Physicians NEED to Embrace
Since COVID-19 Impacted Med School, Will It Affect My Job Search?
The COVID-19 pandemic harmed student clinical rotations and moved many classes to online models. This article will explore how COVID-19 ...
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Writing Cover Letters that Count
Despite what you may think, it is a well-written cover letter – not your resume – that will single-handedly increase ...
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What to Know About Preparing for the Upcoming COVID-19 Vaccine
Hope is on the horizon as healthcare providers began their distribution of the new COVID-19 vaccines in early 2021. Getting ...
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How to Survive This Year's Physician Shortage
Top 4 Healthcare Trends Impacting Your Recruitment Strategy in 2021
Recruiting during a global pandemic was, by most accounts, a rocky ride. Healthcare recruiters held on, dug in, and did ...
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C-Level Executive Burnout: Something We Need to Talk About
The need for high-functioning leaders to help healthcare organizations navigate the ever-changing landscape for the industry requires that they be ...
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The 10 Best States to Work in As a Physician MedSource Consultants
Finding the Right Recruiter Will Make All the Difference
Determined to shake off 2020 and make 2021 your year? The right recruiter can make it happen! When you’re looking ...
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Do You Need to Update Your Advance Practitioner Compensation Model?
The increasing demands for healthcare providers in every area of practice have placed pressure on healthcare systems. Roles for RNs ...
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Why You Should Always Negotiate Your Starting Salary
Negotiating may not be your strong suit. You may be the most skilled surgeon or the most experienced nurse, but ...
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How COVID-19 Impacted the Physician Staffing Market
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the healthcare field in ways we’re still learning about. However, when it comes to the physician ...
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Is High Turnover Impacting Your Patient Experience?
It’s common business knowledge that it’s more costly to replace an existing customer with a new one. Building a customer ...
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Boutique Staffing Agencies Offer Great Opportunities for Locum Tenens
Why Locum Tenens Opportunities Will Continue to Grow
The shortage of clinical providers is here. Physician, and nursing shortages, coupled with an increase in the aging Baby Boomer ...
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How to Survive This Year's Physician Shortage
What’s the Cost of an Open Position at Your Hospital?
The U.S. shortage of clinical providers is increasing and it’s going to cost hospitals big money. The pandemic has only ...
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How Do I Reignite My Passion For The Medical Field?
Even before COVID-19 began to wreak havoc on clinical teams throughout the United States, burnout was still a major issue ...
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The Benefit of Hybrid Healthcare Models When You Can't Do Telehealth MedSource Consultants
The Benefits of Telehealth in Today’s Times
The COVID-19 crisis has normalized the practice of virtual medicine. While these tools have been in use for decades, regulatory ...
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MedSource Consultants Announces Launch of Locum Tenens Division
Stamford, CT — August 21, 2020 — MedSource Consultants, a business specializing in healthcare recruiting, announced today the launch of ...
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MedSource Consultants Certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council
Stamford, CT — August 17, 2020 — MedSource Consultants, a business specializing in healthcare recruiting, is proud to announce national ...
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Self-Care Tips to Combat Burnout
Burnout is a real and persistent problem in healthcare today. The journal Cureus published a study in 2018 showing the ...
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A Decade in Review; the Many Milestones in Healthcare
Whether it’s a bad thing or good, healthcare is always “interesting.” The pace of change in our profession could be ...
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What Does President Trump’s Latest Immigration Proclamation Mean?
As many of you have heard by now, President Trump has signed a proclamation further suspending U.S. immigration policy on June 22, ...
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5 Technologies Impacting Patient Engagement
Patient engagement still matters in the competitive healthcare arena. While the COVID-19 pandemic distracted us momentarily from one of the ...
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How to Recover Your Medical Workforce Following a Crisis
Front line healthcare workers may have made it through the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. As some states begin ...
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What You Need to Know: The Latest Changes in Medical Licensing
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it, possibly forever. Healthcare is also changing, having been hit hard ...
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Best Ways to Stand Behind Frontline Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The American healthcare worker is routinely exposed to all kinds of illness but rarely one so virulent as COVID-19. The ...
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Telehealth Doesn’t Have to Be Cross Country: How Hospitals Are Adapting Amid COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world in myriad ways—possibly forever. Many companies have found ways to adapt to the ...
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How to Prepare for a Virtual Medical Job Interview
If you’ve never participated in a virtual medical job interview, it takes some getting used to. Unless you love seeing ...
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Best Interview Questions to Understand a Provider’s Soft Skills
Having strong soft skills in healthcare are crucial to care delivery. Soft skills are the personal characteristics healthcare workers exhibit ...
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Physician Shortages are Here and Reaching Crisis Levels: Everything You Need to Know
The Pros and Cons of Locum Tenens Work
Locum Tenens, is just the fancy Latin way of saying temporary work.  To the doctor that just finished residency and ...
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Are Doctors Being Replaced by Robots?
James Cameron helped us realize our deepest fears about robots; that they would be better, more powerful than humans.  Movies ...
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The Importance of Focusing on Your Own Mental Health as a Physician
Is Your Physician Burnout Impacting Patient Experience?
Provider burnout has reached staggering levels and there is plenty of data that suggests this is a major contributing factor ...
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The Must-Have Checklist for Physician Employment Contracts
The physician contracting process involves many steps in order to get it right.  We’ve made a  checklist of the must-have ...
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Shortage of Trained Psych NPs a Growing Threat
If you work in healthcare administration, clinical shortages are probably one of the biggest issues keeping you up at night. ...
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Making the Most Out of Your Relationship with Your Recruiter
“A relationship is a two-way street,” goes the timeworn adage.  This dynamic exists in every relationship, including the one you ...
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Strategies for Paying off Medical School Debt
The average doctor is up to his or her stethoscope in debt. The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) says ...
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5 Apps to Make Your Life as a Nurse Practitioner Easier
Those of us in the nursing profession know that apps make our lives easier. Minority Nurse reports 95 percent of ...
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Soft Skills to Look for When Adding to Your Healthcare Leadership Team
Understanding The Passive Candidate and How to Recruit Them
“Do you know how to recruit passive candidates?”  This should be the first question you ask your on-site recruiters.   With ...
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10 Ways to Avoid Medical Malpractice
Let’s lead with some good news for a change: The rate of malpractice claims in the U.S. has steadily declined ...
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Improving Patient Experience with Technology
Leaders understand that the delivery of quality health care, combined with the drive for efficiency, juxtaposes patients seeking care from ...
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Telehealth Growing As a Strategic Initiative for Hospitals
In 10-15 years, healthcare as we know it will no longer exist.  Currently, it’s a boom time for telehealth. One ...
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Learn How Physicians Can Work as Independent Contractors
Ways Outsourcing Physician Recruiting Can Lower Company Costs
An entire industry has been built around the idea of the supplemental service. Outsourcing is a way to add expertise ...
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How to Overcome Your Long-Distance Healthcare Job Search
Have you ever wanted to move away and start fresh somewhere else? Perhaps you found your dream job – but ...
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Is the Demand for Primary Care Impacting Physician Recruiting?
The short answer is a resounding, “Yes!” The demand for primary care providers is at an all-time high. The latest ...
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3 Things Every Healthcare Organization Looks for in a Cover Letter
5 Pro-Tips on Finding Your First Job as an NP Grad
You work in a field known for its shortage of talent and is the worst we have ever experienced.  There ...
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Medical Technologies Changing the Scope of Your Practice
Whether you’re part of a large healthcare behemoth or a small independent practice, medical technology is changing the scope of ...
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Need to Know Items About Your Physician Signing Bonus
Signing bonuses are an important incentive for doctors to join clinical care teams. These financial incentives are increasing in many ...
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Is Texting the Future of Medical Staffing?
Is the new tool in healthcare recruiting as close as your smartphone? RevCycle Intelligence thinks so, and it makes sense; ...
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Keep Your Nurse Practitioners from Jumping Jobs With These Retention Tips
The job market is presently showing an engagement problem in tandem with historically low unemployment. This means that employees are ...
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The Night Shift: Mistakes Hospitals Make When Staffing Clinical Teams
Every medical clinician has done it, most dislike it, few love it.  That it is the night shift.  Policemen and ...
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8 Ways to Make The Most Out of Your Clinical Rotation
The student nurse’s first clinical rotation is both stressful and exciting. It’s your first chance to really apply what you’ve ...
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How Much Revenue Does a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Generate?
Innovators Innovating Healthcare On their Own Terms
As Plato said, necessity is the mother of innovation. Some innovation is outstanding and monumental – penicillin, organ transplantation, aspirin, ...
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The Most Common Job Search Mistakes Physicians Make
You might not consider that a physician can make a mistake when searching for a job, but they certainly can. ...
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Three Key Sessions at AMSA’s Annual Convention
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is the nation’s largest trade group dedicated to the emerging clinician. This network of ...
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What’s Causing Physicians to Quit Their Jobs?
There’s a problem in our nation’s physician pool and our doctors are in crisis. HCPro reports that one in three ...
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Average Revenue Generated by Primary Care Physicians and Specialists
Primary care -- defined as family practice, general internal medicine and pediatrics – providers draw in their fair share of ...
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10 Things No One Tells You About Pursuing a Career in Medicine
Ask a practicing doctor or nurse if they would have pursued their clinical practice had they known the difficulties inherent ...
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Tips for Finding a Nurse Practitioner Job Out-of-State
Even in a four percent unemployment market, it’s tough to find work out-of-state. HR managers and recruiters typically are more ...
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The Top Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2019
The constant in healthcare for 2019 is change. While the paradigm shift from volume to value is still sorting itself ...
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Is Free Medical School the Answer to the Country’s Doctor Shortage?
On the surface, the growing physician shortage in the United States can seem counterintuitive, because medical careers are among the ...
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4 Conferences Healthcare Professionals Should Attend
As a healthcare professional, you’ll have many conferences to choose from to sharpen your skills. From educational to strategic, there ...
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Finding the Balance Between Work and Life in Healthcare
Professionals in a number of different fields experience stress and burnout, and struggle with finding the equivalent of the Holy ...
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Healthcare Recruiting: 5 Key Reasons to Consider Being a Physician Assistant
For many people, pursuing a career in medicine and healthcare stems from a desire to help people. Of course with ...
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How to Make the Most of the 15-Minute Med Check
Doing more with less has become something of a cultural mantra, and the medical realm is no exception. From getting ...
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Addressing the Physician Shortage in Your Hiring Practice
The looming physician shortage in the United States is very real. According to data from the Association of American Medical ...
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5 Ways to Make Sure You Recruit the Right Nurse Practitioner
When it comes to finding top-tier talent that will excel in both their individual role and add long-term value to ...
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How Much Revenue Does a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Generate?
How Much Revenue Does a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Generate?
Considering an NP hire but unsure of the return on that investment?  When looking at the value-add of NPs to ...
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Why Are Hospitals Losing Millions?
Why Are Hospitals Losing Millions?
While the utilization of healthcare by patients is very high in the United States, hospitals are losing millions of dollars ...
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Your All-Inclusive Guide to Continuing Postgraduate Nurse Practitioner Education
Nurse practitioners perform a critical and indispensable role in the healthcare system and have never been in greater demand. The ...
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Healthcare’s Booms and Busts of 2018
Another amazing year has come and gone and excitement for the last year of the 21st century’s second decade is upon ...
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Backflips to Reducing Physician Turnover
One of the least-discussed aspects and pain points of the healthcare industry is the cost associated with high physician turnover. ...
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Deciding Between NP or PA: Which Career is a Better Fit for You?
So, you’ve decided to pursue a career in healthcare – congratulations! Whether you choose to take the road of a ...
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A Firestorm That Started on Social Media: A Glimpse of Sexism Toward NPs?
If there’s a profession where highly skilled and educated female professionals would command respect and appreciation for their abilities it ...
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How to Attract and Keep Your Locum Tenens Provider Happy MedSource Consultants
Start the Conversation: Mental Health Wellness in the Workplace for Physicians
Once considered among the ultimate taboos, open discussions about mental health – particularly in the workplace – were typically likened ...
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10 Questions Physicians Must Ask When Considering A Counter Offer
You’re coming down the home stretch. You’ve received an excellent offer for a new job opportunity, and it’s time to ...
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Avoid These Mistakes When Changing Jobs as a Physician
A medical career, like the hit ABC drama, Grey’s Anatomy, is supposed to last forever right? You made the sacrifices, ...
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Turning the Tables – Best Questions Physicians and Nurse Practitioners Should Ask An Interviewer
You swore it wouldn’t, couldn’t happen again. You asked all the questions that clearly explained the compensation package, the on-call ...
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How Much Did That Bad Hire Just Cost You? We’ll Tell You.
In Good to Great, Jim Collins states, “The most important decisions that employers make are not what decisions, but who decisions.”  In an era where ...
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Blockchain, Bitcoin, EHRs – oh my!
2018 was the year of bitcoin. Over the year, prices for bitcoin hit historic highs and fell just as fast ...
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5 Ways TV Medical Dramas are Changing Patient’s Perceptions
In a quiet emergency room, a team of EMTs bursts through the doors with an unconscious male patient. Immediately, a ...
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Harnessing the Power of Patient-Driven Data in Healthcare
Imagine a model of healthcare that’s always available and driven by data, so you’re continuously collecting data from your body, ...
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Emotional IQ Can Make You a Better Physician
Physicians spend many years studying to become medical providers. During the course of their studies, they learn how to interpret ...
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A Checklist to Help Healthcare Organizations Streamline Credentialing
 As healthcare systems look to woo physicians and advanced practice professionals, achieving a seamless process in the credentialing department is ...
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Last year healthcare bankruptcy filings more than tripled according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The rate of bankruptcies for companies worth ...
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In 1983, J.P. Morgan created Wall Street’s leading investor conference focused on healthcare. Now, 35 years later, the event is ...
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When you look back and consider which leaders had the greatest influence in your life, do you seek ways to ...
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For all student borrowers, including medical students, any unpredictability in addressing student loan repayment amplifies the challenges of a difficult (and sometimes ...
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To understand the weight a compelling Curriculum Vitae has, one must put themselves in the shoes of a prospective employer. Let’s ...
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Of all the people affected by President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from six Muslim-majority nations, one group is of particular ...
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It was a dream of Dr. Brian Ackerman to hang a shingle. Immediately after residency, he did what most physicians ...
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Historically, stigma has been associated with most mental disorders.  Until recently, accessing comprehensive mental health care may have been nearly ...
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  On July 6, 2016, American software development company Niantic launched its new augmented-reality app, Pokemon Go. Within 13 hours of ...
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Why Culture is Critically Important to Healthcare Job Seekers
As a nurse practitioner, I’m bombarded with job opportunities. If I’m not being tweeted at, emailed, or called by a ...
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Both nurse practitioners and physicians provide high-quality, expert primary care services to patients across the United States. Day to day, ...
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The 40 years of telemedicine research coupled with the growing momentum for patient-centered care has created the perfect storm for an explosion ...
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6 Ways Telehealth Will Change Healthcare
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People rely on customer reviews to make purchasing decisions like never before.  Online ratings help empowered shoppers decide on a ...
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Health professions workforce shortages are exacerbated in rural areas, where communities struggle to attract and keep well-trained clinicians. In the ...
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