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