By Rachel Stewart
W
riting for Medical Practice
Insider, Doyle offers tips for
getting the best people for
the job, including:
+ Make your practice stand out. Why
would a physician want to join your
practice? Doyle advises surveying cur-
rent staff to get a feel for what makes
them stay the course, including practice
culture and perks — and whether the
physicians you're looking to hire will be
appropriate fits for those same reasons.
+ Understand what younger candidates
want. According to a recent HealthCare
research study, physicians younger than
age 40 are more interested in maintain-
ing a healthy work/life balance than
are their older counterparts, who paid
their dues in 80-hour work weeks. Can
you offer that balance to the latest
generation of physicians? Doyle also
recommends providing tangible incen-
tives, such as student loan repayment.
+ Stay up to date on technolog y.
Government reform continues to guide
technology changes in health care, and
the newest physician recruits want to
work in a tech-savvy environment. If
you're still working on implementing
EHR or other electronic healthcare
tools, you could be losing out on great
staffing potential, according to Doyle. ■
FINDING THE BEST TALENT
FOR YOUR PRACTICE
CAN BE DIFFICULT IN
TODAY'S MARKET. DAVID
DOYLE, CEO OF CRT
MEDICAL SYSTEMS, SAYS
COMPETITION REMAINS
FIERCE, PARTICULARLY IN
PRIMARY CARE.
Attracting the
Cream of the Crop
M D N E W S . CO M ■ MD NEWS Greater Boston
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