Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention (PDF)

The Right Way to Build and Sustain a Successful Hospital
Medicine Program

This first complete treatment of hospitalist recruitment and
retention gives you all the tools and guidance needed to build a
new hospital medicine program for your hospital. Moreover, it shows
you how to reinvigorate and maintain an established hospitalist
program, enabling your hospital to fully benefit from the improved
clinical outcomes that a hospitalist approach can offer. All the
key elements for building and maintaining an effective hospitalist
program are covered, including:

* Developing a recruitment plan that attracts the right people and
clearly sets forth expectations

* Hiring the best people to meet organizational objectives

* Implementing an effective retention plan that keeps high-quality
staff motivated and committed to excellence

Based on the author's extensive experience in both clinical
practice and professional consultation with new and established
hospital medicine programs, the book covers such critical topics
as:

* Significance of current trends in hospital medicine

* Key factors in successful hospitalist recruitment and
retention

* Role of the hospitalist in recruitment, retention, and
stabilization of physicians in their communities

Recruitment and retention of physicians in all specialties is a
national challenge, and it is expected to become even more
difficult due to an impending physician shortage. As more and more
healthcare organizations come to understand and embrace the
hospitalist movement, this book will prove essential in recruiting
and retaining the staff they need to implement and sustain an
effective hospitalist program.