Physician Recruitment And The Role Of The Community

Though residents of a major American city have known for sometime that the community needs doctors

, it is only recently that they realized that doctors also need the community. In order to achieve success in any recruitment effort, packaging the community as ideal and attractive is extremely essential. The needs of potential new doctors in terms of housing, education, safety and social development for them and their families are some of the factors they will be seeking.

Medical staff, members of the board, as well as the administration of the hospital in need of new doctors mainly prioritize recruitment. The recruiting hospital's experiences have taught them that the most successful kind of recruiting involves an effort by the entire community. Research has revealed that there are areas in the medical system that have to be improved but it will allow the recruitment process to continue until developments are made.

One of the major problems of most rural areas in America is their community's lack of healthcare practitioners. A federal medium has recently defined these rural areas as unaided and unserved communities when it comes to the healthcare aspect. It assigns a point-rating scheme to each community covering categories on the percentage of those who belong on the below poverty level, the number of members beyond 65 years of age, the rate of infant mortality, as well as the ratio of one doctor per thousands of the population.

Primary care doctors only include those who practice internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics and ob-gynecology. Upon establishing this, the hospital board members and their staff will be able to determine the kind of health care services needed. To recruit more ob gynecologists has been the biggest goal of most hospitals in the community. More doctors in the emergency room and family medicine practice are very much needed.

Recruiting medical specialists involve a complex process of showing that these physicians have the best of what both the hospital and the community have to offer. Notices and advertisements in major medical publications is the first step in effective hiring as it will reach a wide scope of physicians throughout the country. Letters can be written to lure fresh medical graduates or residents in nearby medical schools to partake of the recruitment process. Friends of friends of local young physicians are contacted and any local men or women who have gone on to study medicine are asked to keep in touch.

Upon learning of the doctor's interest, he is invited to tour the town and see the local amenities. He is treated to lunch and sometimes to an overnight stay, taken on a tour of the hospital and introduced to the staff. These introductions take place within the hospital but there are times the hospital personnel brew up parties for the potential new doctors.

The physician is shown what support services exist at the hospital such as the pathology lab or radiology lab, and told that the hospital will make every possible effort to purchase equipment necessary to establish a new specialty. The physician will also be advised that the hospital will assist him in finding adequate office space, good insurance packages as well as a chance to continue his education.

The medical realm is not the only effort the physician recruiters must exercise. Doctors and their spouses are advised to bring in their children after meeting the principal of the school they will transfer to so that the children can be able to adjust in their new environment.

The doctor will also be introduced to the local bankers who can give advice on loan and mortgage opportunities as well as home brokers who will assist them on their housing concerns. However, it is recognized that the staff and the hospital board members may not be able to achieve all they envisioned to. The members of the community must complement the efforts of the hospital recruitment team by kindly answering any questions the potential recruits may have and acting as resource persons when it comes to their community.

by: ronda

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