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Business
Legal matters
- Part-time work: How to add or subtract from your workload
- 6 financial mistakes physicians make
- Burnout: How to spot it, avoid it, and react to it
- Family friendly cities – Winter 2023
- Jeremy P. Irving, M.D.
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Winter 2023
- Proximie enables remote surgical collaboration
- What’s new with the Affordable Care Act
- The burnout problem
- Is more really… more?
- Helping physicians invest through real estate
- Government expands enforcement of the Sunshine Act
- More positions added for Graduate Medical Education
- The ins and outs of working locums
- Predicting and protecting your future: physician employment agreements
- No Surprises Act takes effect in January
- Must-knows about moonlighting
- Federal action to help providers deal with COVID-19
- An insurance primer for young physicians
- Licensing, credentialing and hospital privileges—oh my!
- Comparing reform plans
- A physician’s guide to professional liability insurance
- Reforms in the wake of COVID-19
- Before you go…
- Expansion of the Medicare Advantage program
- President Biden’s health care policies
- Your guide to the Stark law
- Navigating the job search as an international medical graduate
- Changes in the market for health insurance
- Growth in Medicare— and in proposals to change how it is funded
- Trump’s Plan to Cut Federal Health Care Spending
- Insurance: tails and types
- Rainy day planning
- You’ve got the degree and the training. How about the license?
- An insurance primer for young physicians
- A physician’s billing primer
- Reform, repeal, repeat: Health care policies of the presidential candidates
- Protect your outside investments
- Joe Biden’s health care policies
- Proposals to control drug costs
- The challenges of medical marijuana laws
- Measles vaccinations and exemptions
- Medicare for all
- Congress renews Children’s Health Insurance Program
- Fraud and abuse issues facing physicians
- An update on the opioid epidemic
- Payments to physicians and hospitals are becoming increasingly quality-based
- The health care policies of President Trump
- Navigating the rapid growth of telemedicine
- Your nose, your tail, and what’s in between
- Congress advances laws for mental health and addiction treatment
- Insurance exchanges in a rocky period
- Healthcare spending on the rise
- Supreme Court upholds ACA’s use of tax credits
- Federal laws change payments to providers
- Linking payments to quality of care
- The Affordable Care Act in progress
- Affordable Care Act poses challenge for hospital recruiters
- Challenges of the insurance exchanges
- Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula may finally be repealed
- Government sets “essential health benefits”
- Dealing with the shortage of primary care providers
- Implementing the Affordable Care Act
- Easing regulatory burdens
- Affordable Care Act bringing changes to Medicaid
- Insurance exchanges explained
- Accountable Care Organizations to become operational
- The constitutionality debate continues
- Surviving the malpractice storm
- Impact of the elections on health care reform
- Should you opt out of medicare?
- Consent to settle: Who decides?
- The National Practitioner Data Bank and your career
- Dealing with cuts in physician reimbursements
Practice management
- Apology laws: Protecting the right to say “I’m sorry”
- Culture check
- Which employer type is best for you as a physician?
- How to discover a practice’s true culture
- The business (school) of medicine
- What “managing up” can do in medicine
- The Advantage: The importance of organizational health
- Physician entrepreneurs: The opportunity of ownership
- The power of asking
Career
Compensation
- What to negotiate – and what not to negotiate
- How physicians get paid
- What’s in a compensation package?
- Is your offer fair?
- Who’s making what?
- How will you get paid?
- How much are you really worth?
- Getting personal: physician compensation survey
- What’s it worth to you?
- The money question
- How to approach your first big paycheck
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Spring 2019 Issue
- Compensation comparisons: evaluating apples and oranges
- 7 keys to a successful negotiation
- How to negotiate your bonus
- What physicians make (and why)
- How physicians get paid
- Money Talks
- What recruiters want you to know before talking money
- Compensation by specialty in 2012
- Revenue and RVUs
- Upping your income (and $ know-how)
- Four bases to cover in your compensation arrangement
- What goes into your compensation figure?
- The who, what and when of contract negotiations
- How physicians get paid
- Key items of an employer’s benefits package
- When during the interview process should you ask about money?
- How to confidently negotiate your physician contract
- Facing the trend: Preparing for value-based compensation
- Peeking into physician pockets
- Physician compensation stats
- How can you calculate your worth as a physician?
- Medscape Physician Compensation Report: 2012
- How to negotiate like a 5 year old
- Here’s what to ask during your job negotiation
- Surgeons reign supreme
- Physician compensation worldwide
Contracts
- What to negotiate – and what not to negotiate
- How will you play your job search?
- Navigating employment contracts
- Negotiations 101
- What attorneys look for in employment contracts
- The last hurdle
- Navigating your noncompete
- Need a vacation?
- Negotiating your next contract
- Physician contracts in the age of COVID-19
- The art of contract negotiation
- A Physician’s Guide to Employment Contracts
- Contract negotiation – what recruiters want you to know
- Is your tail covered? Why physicians must consider tail coverage when switching practices
- 6 mistakes you’re about to make on your employment contract
- In physician employment contracts, cash isn’t necessarily king
- Your guide to your employment contract
- Contracts with benefits
- Playing nice: how to handle your first negotiation (with grace)
- How to choose a contract review attorney
- Signing a letter of intent
- Don’t ask, don’t tell
- How to interview contract review attorneys
- Decoding your employment contract
- The who, what, when and how of contract negotiation
- What you need to know before signing
- 5 red flags to spot before you sign
- The anatomy of a physician contract
- Contracts, contracts, contracts
- How to Comb Through your Contract Like a Lawyer
- 10 things to understand before signing a physician employment contract
- How to navigate physician employment contracts
- Managing your moonlighting
- Enough about call—what about vacation?
- The who, what, where, why and when of contracts
- Shedding light on your moonlighting contract
- Negotiate like a pro
- Protection from wrongful termination action
Interview
- 6 questions to ask in an interview
- 5 red flags physician recruiters notice
- The judgment factor
- How to craft the perfect CV
- Navigating your job search expense reports
- How to become site visit savvy
- What’s Your Interview Style?
- Nuts and bolts of a site visit
- Is your CV working?
- Preparing for your interview
- 7 basic fields recruiters need to know about your job search
- 8 questions physician recruiters wish you’d ask
- Meet, greet, repeat
- The ABCs of CVs
- What’s an inDepth Interview?
- 6 Things Missing from Your CV
- Physician app cofounder
- Stop before you make one of these errors
- Top 5 physician interview mistakes
- The do’s & don’ts of your next interview
- Irina G. Trifonova, M.D.
- What to ask during your interview
- Building a CV that works
- Ace The Interview
- 5 steps for interview prep
- Will You Do Me the Honor?
- Interviewing on video? Follow these guidelines
- The do’s and don’ts of interview questions
- Preparing for your interview
- Ready, set, visit
- How to do your pre-interview homework
- Your best health care CV
- Notes from the other side of the interview desk
- 10 Questions to ask in your next interview
- Minding your gaps: A gap in your work history
- Setting yourself up for site visit success
- CV vs. resume: Do you know the difference?
- The when, what and who of your site visit
- Specialize your CV for better results
- How to navigate difficult contractual and legal items in an interview
- You got this: Interviewing with confidence
- Finding The One
- Know what to ask in your physician interview
- Interview Rx
- How to evaluate a practice
- Ace Your Interview
- Is your CV helping you?
- CV essentials for physicians
- How to make the most of your interview
- 10 signs of a well-run practice
- Navigating the job search with a less than perfect physician CV
Job Search
- 6 questions to ask in an interview
- Physician Practice in the Great Outdoors – Live & Practice
- Your job-search timeline
- 5 red flags physician recruiters notice
- 10 terms to know to hack the interview trail
- How to pick a place you’ll love
- On the move
- Your job-search timeline
- 5 steps to job-search success
- How physicians find jobs
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Spring 2022
- When medicine meets politics
- How tight is the physician job market in your specialty? Winter 2022
- How to get extra help with your job search
- How to make your next move the right one
- Job Description: Physician YouTuber
- The importance of place
- 4 negotiating mistakes that drive recruiters bonkers
- How tight is the physician job market in your specialty? Fall 2021 Issue
- Your online footprint: Recruiters will Google you. What will they find?
- Preparing the next generation: physician tutoring
- PracticeLink’s suite of tools make finding a job easier
- Cruise ship physician
- How to make a successful conference connection
- Back to school?!
- Wilderness Medicine
- High school sports physicians
- Physicians who write
- Making a list, checking it twice
- Your green job search
- Medicine 3.0
- Till work do we part
- Coming to (and staying in) America
- The 5 job-search mistakes you can’t afford to make
- Here’s to your health!
- The benefits of being bilingual
- How to choose the right practice and love your job
- Your secret job-search weapon
- Your ultimate job search guide
- Career Move: Concierge physician
- Workplace clinics
- What physicians need to do when starting a new job
- You + them: Creating a deal that works for both
- 3 common job-search questions from physicians
- Picking up your life…and moving it!
- Your before, during and after moving guide
- How your spouse can help with your job search
- The qualities of a winning physician CV
- CV Makeovers
- Finding the right practice fit—the first time
- How to work with physician recruiters
- Writing content for other physicians
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Summer 2021
- PracticeLink’s Physician Recruitment Index: 2015 Q4
- Physician Astronaut
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Spring 2017 issue
- How to negotiate time off
- Physician with a following
- A physician’s guide to relocating
- How tight is the physician job market in your specialty? Spring 2021 Issue
- The timeline of a physician job search
- Physician life care planner
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Summer 2018 issue
- Leading a nonprofit while treating patients
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Spring 2020
- What shapes your search?
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Winter 2019 issue
- In-house recruiters and agency recruiters: What’s the difference?
- Where should I work? A look at the options physicians have throughout their medical careers
- 6 questions you must ask in your job search
- How tight is the 2018 job market in your specialty?
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Winter 2018 issue
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Fall 2017 issue
- Navigating a virtual career fair
- Telling health care stories
- What’s your best practice fit?
- Adventure bound
- Free resources for your job search
- Five ways to show your human side in your CV
- Got your employment contract? Now what?
- How to optimize your CV
- Serving the military, civilian style
- Before you leave…
- David A. Jenkins, D.O.
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Fall 2018 issue
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Winter 2020 Issue
- What’s the difference in physician recruiter types?
- Who’s recruiting you?
- Leveling up
- Navigating the physician job search when your spouse is searching too
- A sense of place
- It’s not just the job
- Apples & oranges: How to compare job offers
- From Good to Pitch Perfect: Avoid common candidate communication errors
- Physician coach
- Where to practice?
- Negotiating your work visa sponsorship as a physician
- Navigating the job-search journey
- 5 ways to overcome job-search stress
- Launch your job search
- Find your dream practice
- Physician, know thyself
- Planes, trains and automobiles: Who pays for what?
- Caring directly for the people
- Is moonlighting right for you?
- The surprising ways geography plays into your compensation
- Networking Through a Career Change
- How does your job offer compare?
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Winter 2021 Issue
- Helping the SWAT team as a physician
- Are you evaluating the right things?
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Fall 2020
- Hollywood calling
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Summer 2020 Issue
- Bore no more!
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Summer 2019 Issue
- Moving for work?
- Doctor by day, jazz singer by night
- Curious about the jobs out there?
- It takes two: your spouse’s role in the job search
- Answering the call of rural medicine
- The case for a narrow job search
- The way back home
- Physician adviser
- How your partner can help
- What’s your job-search action plan?
- Don’t simply apply for jobs—market yourself
- What recruiters need to know about you
- Career move: Medical missions
- Picking Up and Moving
- Picking Your Position
- Budgeting for your job-search expenses
- Who are the most important people in your job search?
- Building your job-search plan
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Fall 2016 issue
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Winter 2017
- Creating your desired first impression
- Doubling down: Your spouse’s role in your job search
- 5 questions you’re not asking
- How real physicians search for jobs
- Your job search countdown
- Why cover letters matter
- Career move: Entrepreneur
- Is your online profile helping or hurting you?
- Got a good idea? Consider bringing it to market as a physician inventor.
- Got the travel bug? Practice medicine abroad
- What are the best states for physicians to work?
- Career move advice from The Rolling Stones
- Physician job search advice from recruiters
- 5 ways to stand out in the job search
- 5 phrases not to say during your job search
- Career move advice from The Rolling Stones
- Why aren’t physician recruiters calling me for an interview?
- Like, friend, connect: The benefits of in-person networking
- Opening a surgery center
- What doctors wish they had known
- Physicians, personalize and supercharge your job search
- Where will you work?
- What’s your exit strategy?
- Competition is alive and well
- More physician job opportunities expected in 2013
- Tactics for finding unadvertised jobs
- 8 quick tips for landing the job you want
- Post-residency job hunting for the IMG
- How to avoid a relocation nightmare
- What women want
- Will work for travel
- Annul your job choice
- Avoid relocation shock
- Dr. Red, White and Blue: Practicing medicine with the federal government
- Meet your medical matchmaker
- The practice primer
- Rural medicine — worth a second look
- Is social media the new job search engine?
- Job search 101
Clinical
Profession
- Who’s the happiest?
- How Tight is the Job Market in Your Specialty? Summer 2017 issue
- Medical societies win with apps
- Integrative medicine evaluates a person’s many facets.
- How tight is the job market in your specialty? Fall 2019 Issue
- Palliative care medicine: A complete patient-centered package
- Traveling to a specialty conference?
- More drugs on the fast track
- Secrets of the happiest specialties
- Adding research to your responsibilities
- Urgent Care practitioners are in high demand
- Careers for you in the military
- Starting a career in hospital medicine
- Radiology tops the list for starting salaries
- A valid career for the non-enlisted physician
Lifestyle
Community
- Physician Practice in the Great Outdoors – Live & Practice
- LIVE & PRACTICE: Sports Towns 2022
- Live and Practice: The Great Outdoors 2022
- Amanda Sawicki, Nurse Practitioner
- Live & Practice: Small Towns 2022
- Live & Practice: Family-Friendly Cities 2022
- Live & Practice: Sports Towns 2021
- Community Profile: Central PA
- Community profile: Tucson, Arizona
- Physician profile: Joshua D. Lenchus, D.O.
- Physician profile: Scott Salmon, D.O.
- Physician profile: T. Anthony GiaQuinta, M.D.
- Community profile: Top cities for outdoor activities
- Live and Practice: Family friendly spots for physicians
- Career Move: Locum tenens physician
- Hospitalist
- Live & Practice: The Great Outdoors 2021
- Live & Practice: Small Towns
- 9 truths about practicing medicine in the Midwest
- Live & Practice: Small Towns 2018
- Live & Practice: Small Towns and Rural Cities, Spring 2021
- Live & Practice: Family Friendly Cities 2018
- Physician profile: Jennifer L’Hommedieu Stankus, M.D., J.D.
- Physician profile: Olusegun Oyewole, M.D., M.P.H.
- Physician profile: Nitasa Sahu, M.D.
- Physician profile: Brandon Hooks, D.O., FACOI
- Live & Practice: Family-Friendly Cities Winter 2020 Issue
- Live & Practice: Small Towns 2019
- Community profile: Norfolk, Virginia
- Community profile: Spokane, Washington
- Community profile: Providence, Rhode Island
- Community profile: Louisville, KY
- Ramayee Periakaruppan (Rama Peri), M.D.
- Live & Practice: Family-Friendly Cities 2021
- Live & Practice: Sports Towns 2020
- Live & Practice: The Great Outdoors 2020
- Live & Practice: Sports Towns 2019
- Physician profile: Shannon Clark, M.D.
- Physician Profile: Sadia Ali, M.D.
- Physician profile: Daniel Bow, D.O.
- Live & Practice: Sports Towns 2016
- Tamika Blackburn, M.D.: Internal medicine
- Physician profile: Jill Kruse, D.O.
- Live & Practice: Family Friendly Cities 2017
- Virtual Medicine
- Live & Practice: The Great Outdoors 2016
- Christine Bourbeau, FASPR
- Physician profile: Shaun Jester, D.O.
- Live & Practice: Small Towns 2016
- Physician profile: Renaisa S. Anthony, M.D., MPH
- Physician profile: Cristiana Angelelli, M.D.
- Live & Practice: Family Friendly Cities 2016
- Community profile: Davenport, Iowa
- Community profile: Visalia and Newport
- Community profile: Newport, Rhode Island
- Community profile: Southern Delaware
- Physician profile: Ambiga Samiappan, M.D.
- Live & Practice: Sports Towns 2015
- Physician profile: Joseph Cheatle, M.D.
- Community Profile: Lexington, Kentucky
- Community profile: Minneapolis
- Community Profile: St. Petersburg, Florida
- Community profile: Sidney, Nebraska
- Physician profile: Oluwakemi Ajide, M.D.
- Community profile: Richmond, Indiana
- Community profile: Dickinson, North Dakota
- Community profile: Clearfield, Pennsylvania
- Community profile: North Central Kansas
- Physician profile: Andrea Gregory, M.D.
- Physician profile: Brian Bachelder, M.D.
- Cities with both excellent medical communities and thriving sports communities
- Physician profile: Wilkerson “Will” Compere, M.D.
- Community profiles: Falling for water
- Physician profile: Ryan Becker, M.D.
- Physician profiles: life away from the crowd
- Physician profile: Amanda Reese, D.O.
- Physician profile: Erik Domingues, M.D.
- Community profile: Some of the most friendly cities
- Community profile: Wolf Point, Montana
- Monique Cunningham-Lindsay, D.O.
- Community profile: Top 10 winter cities
- Physician profile: Tracy Zivin-Tutela, M.D.
- Community profile: Eagle Lake, Maine
- Physician profile: Lt. Col. Jennifer Marrast Host, M.D.
- Physician profile: David Streitwieser, M.D.
- Physician profile: Sam H. Saadat, M.D.
- Physician profile: Jonathan Lee, M.D.
- Physician Profile: Chafik Assal, M.D.
- Physician profile: Scott C. Lindsay, D.O.
- Physician profile: Amy Derick, M.D.
- Community profile: Wausau, WI
- Physician profile: DeVry Anderson, M.D.
- Rural medical communities: The call of the small
- Community profile: Ithaca, N.Y.
- Physician profile: Akash Sharma, M.D.
- Community profile: Madison, WI
- Community profile: Martinsburg, VA
- Community profile: Birmingham, Alabama
- Community profile: Seattle, Washington
- Community profile: Bismarck, North Dakota
Money
- How much home can I afford? Buying a house as a physician
- Practicing medicine and entrepreneurship
- Here today, gone tomorrow: The impact of recent banking issues
- The future of Medicare
- Plan more, pay less
- Smash that debt!
- The truth about student loan repayment
- Playing financial catch-up after med school and residency
- How to triage your debt
- Forget the Joneses: Seven reasons to go frugal
- What’s your retirement plan?
- Protecting what you’ve built
- Fatal financial planning flaws
- To buy or not to buy…
- Navigating student loan repayment
- How to manage your student loan debt
- 5 common student loan questions
- What’s your student loan strategy?
- What you need to know about employer-sponsored loan repayment
- Breaking the chains: How to manage your student loans
- Is it time for a financial self-exam?
- Do you qualify for student loan forgiveness?
- Protecting your future income
- Physician finances: home buying, loan paying, and money saving
- Forget the Joneses and conquer your finances
- Can you recession-proof your career?
- The solution to your financial challenges: Live like a resident
- Making money moonlighting
- What does it take to grow rich?
- Uncle Sam and your job options
- The financial mistakes new physicians make
- The slow and steady path to wealth
- Sharing your wealth: What you need to know about taxes
- Protect the value of your future earnings
- Recession-proofing investments after healthcare reform
- Improve your revenue cycle
Physician life
- How much home can I afford? Buying a house as a physician
- Practicing medicine and entrepreneurship
- Tony Moon, M.D.
- Been there, done that
- Alex Al Khoury, M.D.
- Small towns, big benefits: Why physicians choose rural medicine
- Daniel Talamo, D.O.
- Finding a practice that fits your life
- Learn about opportunities for mission medicine
- Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s off to work you go!
- Rashi Khanna, M.D.
- Golf spots- of birdies, mulligans and holes-in-one
- Keeping burnout at bay
- Working for two
- Finding your work/life balance
- Radhames Ramos De Oleo, M.D., MPH, MBA
- Mission medicine 2.0
- Trevor Washburn, M.D.
- Looking for that work/life balance?
- Protecting your free time
- Does work-life balance exist for physicians?
- Stress less
- Live & Practice: Sports Towns 2017
- Arif Khan, M.D.
- Burned out
- Benjamin Goldstein, M.D.
- Putting lifestyle first
- Alexander M. Luer, M.D.
- Live & Practice: The Great Outdoors 2017
- Luis Diaz Quintero, M.D.
- Physician burnout (And how some hospitals are helping with it)
- Teaching mindfulness in medicine
- Veterans Affairs physician
- Who’s happiest at work—and home?
- Inderpal Singh, M.D.
- Kavita Mehta, M.D.
- Live & Practice: The Great Outdoors 2019
- Choosing the smaller side
- Live & Practice: Family-friendly cities
- Live & Practice: The Great Outdoors 2018
- Live & Practice: Tennis Towns
- A Moonlighter’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Flexible medicine
- Physicians and their passions
- Pursuing work/life balance as a physician
- Practice profile: Direct primary care
- Happiness without Babe Ruth
- Rural gems – escape the city
- New practice? Now patients!
- 5 simple rules for new docs
- Saturdays in the stadiums
- Lincoln slept here
- Correctional medicine
- Doing things the MBA way
- Shore Duty
- 9 post-residency mistakes to avoid
- Bestseller or bust: Becoming a physician author
- How to love your job, location, and life
- Moonlighting 101
- Check your ego and let trust flow
- No excuses: making time to make changes
- No One Taught Me How to Do This in Med School
- Putting out the fires of discontent: Managing physician burnout
Technology
- Image-guided SRT for nonmelanoma skin cancer treatment
- The challenges of surgical mesh reinforcement
- Modus V 3D robotic exoscope for microneurosurgery
- Why physicians use PracticeLink
- Intelligent stethoscope streams from the heart
- Search, find, connect—and be hired!
- DrChrono mobile EHR app review
- CDC releases two new apps
- Evidence-based apps take on gout, drug dependence and smoking
- Fractures, Fevers, and Helping Patients Understand your Choices
- 4 free medical apps to download today
- Evidence-based apps for physicians
- App roundup
- Free medical apps
- The best patient education app
- 7 new apps for physicians to try
- Medical Apps for Physicians
- Medical apps for STDs, statins and cancer-screening
- 3 new medical apps
- Physician entrepreneurs bring products to market
- Incentives for use of electronic health records
- Telemedicine in action
- Apps for physicians and patients
- Decision tools and medical calculators to use at the point of care
- PracticeLink is a physician’s career resource
- Two of the best medical apps of 2016 (and one just for fun)
- Does your CV have a home?
- PracticeLink’s Physician Recruitment Index: Q1 2016
- Achieving automation through apps
- Mobile medical apps ease communication among physicians, nurses and patients
- New PracticeLink features make your job search easier
- Data on the go: medical apps for physicians
- On the go? Keep on going with these medical apps
- Small technology with big impact
- Exciting surgical, diagnostic & EHR tools for physicians
- 3 medical apps you need this summer
- Spring medical app roundup
- Improve outcomes and relationships with apps
- Improvements in imaging machines
- Medical apps that increase knowledge, enable intervention
- Don’t let your next IT project crash your practice
- 4G or bust
- More apps for physicians
- Apps make it possible: Cool technology for physicians
- Transcription gone high-tech
- The future is here: Robots in the OR
- iPads, Notebooks and Netbooks thrive in medicine
- Practice-friendly apps for your iPhone
- The risks and benefits of online medical communities
- Medical software goes mobile