Recruitment of Family Physicians

Blake Fagan, MDDirector, MAHEC Family Medicine

Residency ProgramAsheville, NC

Goals

• Why recruit Family Medicine• How to recruit Family Medicine

Why Family Medicine

• Approximately 90% of Internal Medicine subspecialize

• Approximately 50% of Pediatrics subspecialize

• Affordable Care Act

• In Western North Carolina need 140 primary care physicians now

Residency Programs

• What is happening at residency programs?

• What is happening at hospital systems that have residency programs?

What do you need?

• For what positions are you being asked to recruit?

• Outpatient adult medicine• Geriatrics• Outpatient family medicine• Inpatient and outpatient• OB

What do you think the family doctors want?

• Money• Lifestyle• Control• Not to be dumped on• Not to have to worry about the business side

What do you think the family doctors want?

• See varied groups of patients• Do a variety of things • Loan Repayment• Money

To Recruit, you (and your hospital system) have to be creative

• FQHC model• Encourage/allow newborns and kids• Prenatal care• Procedures• Teaching – Need time and money

• Colleagues • HPSA score• Spouse• Potential spouse

To Recruit, you (and your hospital system) have to be creative

• Sponsor a rotation• Sponsor an extra resident• Critical Access Hospitals

The Product is heterogeneous

• 455 family medicine residency programs• Areas of the country of different strengths• Programs have different strengths• Individual physicians have different strengths

Summary

• You know why you need to recruit• Hopefully you learned something about how

to recruit