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.

To Ban or Not to Ban Noncompete Clauses?

The FTC has proposed a new rule that would ban non-compete clauses, affecting nearly all physicians. The FTC’s decision is based on the view that restrictive covenants are harmful for several reasons, but the potential consequences if the rule is passed are complex and multifaceted.

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.

The Potential of Smart Contracts in Healthcare

Imagine a world where doctors are paid instantly after procedures and office visits, or where a patient could get preapproved for an MRI in minutes instead of days or weeks. Immediate access to medical records is vital in emergency situations, and it can happen through the use of smart contracts and the blockchain.

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.

Physician Job Search: How to “Find the Right Fit”

Make a list of the non-negotiables in work and career— and don’t shortchange your goals in service to a paycheck. Most physicians work well over the standard 40-hour work week and still take their work home with them; it’s in our best interest to ensure we choose our work environment wisely.

5 Mistakes I Made Accepting an Attending Contract

The final year of any residency is a time of accelerated independence, moonlighting, and an intense search for that first job as an attending. This decision is critical as one embarks on a life-long career in medicine, and it will […]