Healthcare Careers

Despite the growing number of female physicians, there are few women in leadership roles. Here are five ways you can help women advance their careers.

The right support and a thoughtful strategy can maximize job satisfaction for physicians who are ready to transition to a second career.

Exploring the wide world of healthcare careers.

Find people who help you gain understanding, achieve goals, and encourage growth. Learn how to recognize these people who may already be in your life.

Tips for medical practice staff to broach the conversation of mid-career professional development with their employers.

Stepping back for perspective in the middle of your career can unveil fresh insights and help plan future accomplishments. Here are six ways for medical practice staff to advance their careers.

Advice for new physicians as they enter the field.

The physician shortage is more pronounced in rural communities, where access to healthcare is limited despite an increased need. Locum tenens doctors can benefit a community in need, and the community can offer advantages practically unheard of in the city.

Seven seasoned professionals offer some recommendations for new residents and those starting out at medical practices.

Residency can be a fearful time in a doctor’s career, but it doesn’t have to be unbearable. Here are some tips for recent medical school graduates as they begin their training.

There’s no line item for being exhausted in a physician’s salary … or is there?

A Texas physician’s indictment should serve as a reminder of the Hippocratic Oath and that honest doctors often suffer by their dishonest peers exposed in the press.

Physician practices must take the time to evaluate their policies related to “outside activities."

Here are five ideas on how to jumpstart your approach to leisure, including some you may not have previously considered.

Many doctors say they would never recommend a medical career to their children. Burnout is a serious problem.

If you are considering merging your practice with another group, make sure you are doing so because it's the right thing to do.

The economics of healthcare are inexorably shifting risk from payers to providers. Independent providers who fail to join risk facing groups are doomed.

This healthcare expert believes concierge medicine is the future of healthcare due to its benefits for both patients and physicians.

Here are some tips for using global health work to fight burnout.

With more than 50 million seniors in the U.S., there is a need for physicians to care for the elderly. Enter: locum tenens docs.

This method of job creation eliminates steps from the typical health care hiring process in hopes of providing better care for patients.

Physician turnover to an ongoing physician shortage and staffing a health care facility can be very difficult. Here are five tips to make sure you are prepared.

Women physicians may be at higher risk of burnout, but they may have better coping tools, according to researchers.

It’s hard to intervene when you see a fellow provider in trouble with burnout. Here’s how to make it a little easier.