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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE

sponsored by Hospitalist Management Advisor

presented on November 15, 2005

Hospitalist programs are cropping up nationwide, but most organizations are facing similar challenges in starting and maintaining their programs: Finding qualified candidates and determining adequate compensation.

Learn to reconcile these and other issues through expert advice during Hiring Hospitalists: Proven Strategies for Recruitment, Retention, and Competitive Compensation.

Gain a competitive edge

Qualified candidates are in short supply, but hospital medicine programs are exploding nationwide. This program will impart the most innovative and effective ways to find and retain top Hospitalists, as well as how to target those who are the best fit for your facility. Along the way, you'll also learn the ins and outs of several compensation models so you can decide what will work best at your facility.

In a recent survey, 61% of respondents said that finding Hospitalists was the chief challenge in creating such a program and 49% said assessing whether a candidate is appropriate for the hospital tops the list. Our distinguished speakers—Jeffrey Dichter, MD, FACP, and Stacy Goldsholl, MD—will deliver their expert knowledge and advice to help your organization get past these problems and deal with what truly matters: treating your patients.

Learning objectives

After listening to this program, you'll be able to:

1. Determine where to find and recruit Hospitalists for your program
2. Identify key procedures to include in your Hospitalist recruitment plan
3. Identify key elements of a Hospitalist retention program that will promote professional satisfaction at your organization
4. Implement Hospitalist compensation models that have been successful at other facilities

BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN THE MATERIALS PACKET

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools you can use in developing your own program.

Check out our agenda!

1. Recruiting
   • Having resources
     • Where do candidates come from?
   • How do you plan the process?
     • Interview
     • Structure
     • Make people want to care
       • Advertising open positions-What methods should we use? Where should we advertise? Should we use recruiters?
       • Tout the community-Look for candidates with local ties
     • Follow up with candidates
     • Expectations: What is your program about?
     • Current practicing physicians are often the best recruiters
2. Retention
   • Are you able to accurately portray your program?
     • Is it the program that candidates ore expecting to find?
     • Managing expectations
     • Are you supporting Hospitalists early on and integrating them well?
     • Mentor programs cause good retention
     • Orientation: Coding, professionalism, and appropriate courtesy
     • Burnout
     • Use staff physicians to keep new recruits
3. Compensation
   • SMH Benchmark Survey
   • You get what you incentivize people to do
     • What is it you want them to do and what are the incentives involved?
     • The money they make equals the amount of work they do
   • Compensation models
     • Paid by productivity?
     • All salary?
     • All productivity?
     • Productivity and bonus?
     • Quality measures that need to be obtained
   • What has worked for different types of Hospitalists?
     • Case studies: Bonus structures
4. Question & Answer session

Intended Audience

• Directors of Hospitalist programs
• Physician practices
• Contracted services providers
• Chiefs of internal medicine or pediatrics
• Vice presidents of medical affairs/Medical staff leadership
• Chief executive officers
• Directors of case management
• Directors of physician services

Meet our speakers

Jeffrey Dichter, MD, FACP, is a previous president of the Society of Hospital Medicine and the director of the Hospitalist Program at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, IN. He is both a practicing Hospitalist and Intensivist, having done his internal medicine residency at Los Angeles County General Hospital and his critical care medicine fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He is an expert in the field of hospital medicine, and focuses on the culture of teamwork in the hospital setting.

Stacy Goldsholl, MD, is board certified in internal medicine, a member of the board of directors of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and a member of the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. Goldsholl began her career in hospital medicine at a community hospital in Atlanta before developing a Hospitalist division for a large multi-specialty group and two more programs at 700-bed nonprofit hospitals in Reading, PA, and Saginaw, MI. She recently joined Cogent Healthcare as its national medical director.

PROGRAM MATERIALS

Program materials will be provided with PDF links.

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