How physicians deliver care has seen unprecedented changes this year, and it has brought numerous challenges to light, including the importance of prioritizing physician wellness.  

Physician burnout is incredibly common and widely known to cause declines in job satisfaction. Some of the main contributors to physician burnout include healthcare reform and payment policies, burdensome medical record documentation and coding requirements, and professional liability, to name a few (per the American Medical Association). 

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There’s an epidemic in U.S. healthcare: physicians are stressed and burned out. According to The American Journal of Medicine, physician burnout increased from 45.5 percent to 54.4 percent between 2011 and 2014. 

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Nearly 40% of physicians today say that they would not choose to enter the medical profession if given the opportunity to do it all over. That’s up from 1973, when fewer than 15% of physicians reported any doubts about career choices. Physician burnout rates are now twice as high in medicine as in other fields – even after adjustment for factors such as age, level of education, and hours worked in the past week (per the 2018 Medscape National Physician Burnout & Depression Report).

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The medical profession is still experiencing uncertainty and transition, and the demand for physicians is becoming increasingly competitive. What are you doing to ensure your recruiting breaks through? Here are five trends that are impacting physician recruitment now.

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The culture of medicine today has led to the erosion of career satisfaction among physicians. Dissatisfaction comes from the gamut of physicians, young and old, male and female, family practitioners to cardiologists. In fact, burnout is more common among physicians than other workers throughout the country, but is career satisfaction something a physician recruiter can help with? Absolutely.

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Ask any physician what his or her professional goal is and the answer will customarily be, “To provide the best possible care and outcome for my patients.” However, as any physician will tell you, that is not the end of the story when it comes to career fulfillment.

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