Brief Summary
This course equips you with essential skills to navigate your physician career, from job searching to contract negotiation. It covers key issues in the healthcare job market, helping you assess opportunities and optimize your compensation.
Key Points
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Understanding the realities of your job as a physician
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Finding jobs that align with your career needs
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Evaluating job offers and negotiating contracts
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Navigating different employment models in healthcare
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Knowing your rights and responsibilities at work
Learning Outcomes
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Identify key career issues and job satisfaction factors
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Evaluate job offers and understand compensation models
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Negotiate contracts effectively
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Understand various healthcare employment structures
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Gain insights on professional liability and covenants
About This Course
Find out what the job is really like, optimize your compensation, and much more.
Whether you are a resident or fellow, or an early-, mid- or late career physician, this course will help you answer questions like:
- What are my key career issues?
- How can I find jobs that might satisfy my key career issues?
- How can I evaluate jobs during interviews and visits?
- What are my duties and schedule?
- Is the compensation fair?
- How can I leave the job?
Lectures include:
- How health care market consolidation affects your career
- The decline of the voluntary medical staff model
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Health system employment
- Physician-owned independent private practice
- Career costs of family
- Take charge of your job search
- Recruiters, networking, and other job sources
- Learning about the job and community
- Visiting the practice and community
- Physician-owned practice: Joining, buying (into), and starting
- Physician-owned practice: Hospital loan agreement
- Good and poor employment contracts
- Duties, schedule, location, and workload
- Compensation models
- Term and termination of employment
- Professional liability (malpractice) insurance
- Restrictive covenants
- Path to becoming a shareholder in a physician-owned practice
- Negotiating strategies and techniques
Kimberly W.
Concise and relevant - from a resident