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