Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Top Hospitalists

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by Hospitalist Management Advisor

presented on February 6, 2007

Ask the director of any successful hospitalist program: It's less costly and smarter business practice to keep the hospitalists already on your staff in place, rather than continue to plug holes due to turnover.

Listen to this audioconference Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Top Hospitalists. Our experts will teach you best practices for keeping your hospitalists happy and on staff long term.

At the end of this audioconference, participants will be able to:

1. describe the key considerations in designing a program that facilitates recruiting and retention of physicians.
2. explain the multiple challenges of developing a stable hospitalist group that reduces turnover and avoids the short-term goal of staffing to increase the number of patients seen.
3. describe the strategies a program can implement to help physicians avoid burnout.
4. identify primary reasons why recruitment and retention are among the biggest hurdles that hospital medicine programs face today.

AGENDA

• Market Issues
  • Statistics
  • Demographic information
  • The future; sourcing candidates
• Human Resources and Setting Realistic Expectations
  • Recruiting internists
  • Hire the right person
  • Unique features for hospital medicine
• Program Design
  • Using the design as a recruitment tool
    • Volume of patients seen
    • Number of days worked
    • Scheduling
  • Using the design as a retention tool
    • Maintaining the original model of the design
• Compensation
  • Academic medical centers
  • Community-based facilities
• Avoiding Burnout
  • Hospitalist
  • Group leader/“toxic handler”
• Career Building
  • Creating leadership opportunities
  • Engaging hospitalists beyond the clinical position
  • Work/life balance
• Q and A

FACULTY

Robert Bessler, M.D., is the president and co-founder of Sound Inpatient Physicians. For the last 6 years, Dr. Bessler and his physician-led management team has built SIP into one of the largest and most successful hospitalist organizations focusing on patients as the primary concern and physicians as the greatest asset.

Aaron Gottesman, M.D., FACP, CHCQM, is the Director of Hospitalist Services and the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at Staten Island University Hospital. Dr. Gottesman has been a practicing hospitalist since 2000 and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at SUNY-Brooklyn Downstate Medical School.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Director of hospitalist programs, medical staff leaders, directors of physician services, VPMAs, HR directors, recruiters

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