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Current Physician
Jobs and Employment
In 2000 Physician
jobs and surgeon jobs numbered about 572,000. During this time
6.7 out of 10 career opportunities were in office-based practices
and about 2.3 out of 10 were employed by hospitals. The remaining
physician jobs were for the Federal Government, most in U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs hospitals and other government related areas.
Physician salaries
have continued to grow during this time.
Today, many physicians
are partners and open group physician practices. Organized as
clinics or as groups of physicians, they will pool their resources
and can offer the public more advanced physician services. The
need for new physicians has been growing every year and may continue
to grow well into the future much like the need for nursing
jobs and other medical
jobs has exploded.
We've put together
a set of online physician
resources to help with your physician
job search.
Physician Jobs
Outlook for Physician Employment through 2012
Jobs for physicians
will continue to grow through the year 2012 due to continued expansion
of the health care industries and the increase in the average
age of the population. New technologies will permit more intensive
care and require special skills. Physicians will be able to do
more to treat aliments previously regarded as untreatable.
In 2008 renewed concerns emerged about a shortfall in the number
of primary care physicians - even on top of a projected shortfall
in the number of US physicians in general.
Although physician
job searches may be produce better results for primary care
doctors such as general and family practitioners, general pediatricians,
and general internists, a substantial number of career cho ices
for specialists will also be created in response to patient
demand for access to specialty care. A variety of resources
are available for medical specialities, for example, family
practice jobs and neurology
jobs are detailed on this site.
The number of physicians
in training is slowing down and is likely to decrease over the
next few years. Although new medical schools are being formed
for the first time in decades, the pipeline of new physicians
takes a long time to fill. This trend will make sure the demand
for physician jobs stays strong for at least the next decade
or longer.
Physician
Employment / Jobs Salaries
Today, physician
salaries are among the highest of any occupation. Self-employed
physicians had higher median incomes than salaried physicians.
Earning are varied for many reasons with the main issues being
the number of years in practice, location, hours worked, skill
set, and experience.
Look up physician job salaries by specialty:
Median income after
expenses for the average physician was about $175,000 in 1999.
The middle 50 percent earned between $125,000 and $250,000 a
year with a few making much more.
Locum Tenens
Salaries
Locum Tenens is temporary
employment for physicians. It's usually a temporary position
that is held until a full-time physician position opens up.
For more information about Locum Tenens salaries please visit
the Locum
Tenens page.
Physician Job Resources
Physician
Jobs & Physician Employment: A fast physician employment
site for all specialties for
North America with automatic email job updates. Offers a directory
of recruitment firms.
New England
Journal Physician jobs: online classifieds from one of the
top medical journals.
Practice
link job search: Job search engine targeted to physicians.
American
College of Physicians Jobs: While hosted by the ACP, this
search interface is a bit clumsy. Nonetheles, it's an important
resource for physician employment opportunities.
Physician
Job Search: Online free search service for physicians, including
permanent and locum tenens physician job openings, from NetDoc.
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