What Physicians Can Do When Compensation Growth Fails to Match Inflation

The gap between physician salaries and inflation is growing every year, leaving many providers to delay retirement and increasing overall burnout. Danielle Kelvas, MD, suggests fighting this wage disparity by advocating for fair compensation, negotiating contracts, and even exploring non-traditional settings.

Top 10 Blogs of 2023

For 11 years HospitalRecruiting has been a professional resource for healthcare job seekers and employers alike. Here are our top-performing articles of 2023.

Key Considerations for Physician Contract Negotiations

Negotiating your physician contract plays a crucial role in ensuring fair compensation, healthy work-life balance, and a favorable work-environment. Here are best practice tips for securing a contract that protects your interests and optimizes your professional career.

How to Negotiate Your Wage and Benefits

So you received an offer on the job of your dreams, congratulations! However, odds are if you take the offer now you may be settling for less than they’re willing to give you. Knowing how to negotiate your salary can be difficult, but here are a few best practice tips on how to get the wage and benefits you deserve.

Negotiating the Medical Employment Contract – What You Need to Know

It’s both exciting and stressful reviewing your medical practice contract. There are a lot of considerations you may not be familiar with, so we’ve got some best practice guidelines for how to evaluate your employment agreement and ensure it is to your maximum benefit.

The Art of Physician Contract Negotiations

You’ve landed the job offer, but now it’s up to you to demand what’s best for yourself. Negotiations can seem tense, and putting your employer on the defensive might cause problems later down the road. It’s important to know how to use empowering language to make the most of your contracts.

Five Things to Know BEFORE Signing Any Healthcare Contract

Contracts are important documents that stake your future career, and they can make or break a dream job offer. Here are five things you should know before signing ANY contract.

Contract Negotiation Tips for Resident Physicians

Little to no time is devoted to helping resident physicians understand the complexity and tactics of negotiating their first job. Having sat on both sides of the table, the following are a few thoughts from 20 plus years of interesting career discussions.

9 Essential Skills Medical Schools Don’t Teach and How to Overcome the Knowledge Deficit

Medical schools teach medical content well, but they miss the mark when it comes to teaching the practical side of medicine. Questions like How should I manage my income? What should I look for in a contract? or What happens when I’m sued? are left unanswered. Physicians generally learn these lessons on the job and make avoidable mistakes along the way.

The following are nine skills I wish I would have learned before leaving medical school.

The Gender Pay Gap and What You Can Do About It

Women have made great strides toward equality with men in both their personal and their professional lives. There is, however, a glaring lack of action and change in a critical area – pay. Using data from 2017, the federal government reports that the median annual pay of women who work full time is 20 percent less than the median annual pay of men who work full time. That means that for every dollar a man is paid, a woman is paid only 80 cents.