Blog Posts from October, 2021
View all postsHire Resilient Health Care Workers
By Patricia Bratianu RN PhD RH-AHG - October 28, 2021
One of the many hallmarks of a good employee is resilience. Resilient employees demonstrate intuitive problem-solving abilities, foresight, flexibility, time management skills, among other qualities. It is important as a hiring manager, therefore, to consider a prospective candidate's resiliency before hiring.
Physicians: To Change Your Career, Change Your Perspective
By David Beran, DO - October 20, 2021
There are countless alternative career options for physicians, but more often than not, we fall into the sunk costs fallacy. We already spent a decade in school and hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans, and now we want to leave that job? This doesn't seem conducive to any good state of mind, so when changing careers, it's important to also change your perspective.
Overcoming Unconscious Bias in Healthcare Recruitment
By Riia O'Donnell - October 13, 2021
Whether we admit to them or not, we all carry biases. These unconscious biases may be undermining your hiring efforts by limiting your candidate pool and overall candidate quality. As healthcare recruiters, we must seek to remove these unconscious biases to ensure the best possible healthcare for our communities.
Established and Proven Options for Alleviating Medical Education Debt
By Laura Gilroy, MD - October 7, 2021
The average US residency graduate has accumulated $250k in debt from their medical education. Suffice to say, a high student loan burden is a near certainty for almost all who take the road of a physician. In this post Dr. Laura Gilroy outlines the established methods for resolving medical education debt.