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Which should you choose: Locum Tenens or Permanent Placement?
A recent survey indicates that over 40% of physicians experience burnout. Physical and mental exhaustion
Locum tenens physicians and advanced practitioners fill a crucial niche in the medical community by:
- Allowing hospitals and healthcare organizations to cover another provider’s vacation/medical leave
- Helping account for increased patient demand
- Filling a gap while a new, permanent provider is recruited
Many healthcare providers are making the switch to locum tenens positions due to the flexibility, extra income, the ability to travel, and exposure to new and evolving patient care environments that the lifestyle offers. Becoming a locum tenens physician is not as simple as you would think, and while you can go through the process on your own, staffing agencies, such as Lucidity, do make the process more streamlined. Lucidity is a healthcare staffing agency that uses a technology platform to connect physicians and advanced practitioners seeking part-time or temporary work with medical practices looking to fill open shifts. We strive to deliver the best job matches directly to you based on your preferences while also providing educational and relevant locum tenens news.
Lucidity makes it easy to find information and details about being a locum tenens provider with their informational Locum tenens blog. Stay up to date on trends and changes in the locum tenens physician community with Lucidity’s blog posts. No matter what speciality you practice, our new and exciting topics will keep you informed and cover topics and themes such as the growing patient to physician gap, unequal access to healthcare, provider burnout, locum tenens hiring process and salaries, policy changes in the locum tenens community and more.
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What are Locum Tenens Providers?
Are you interested in extra clinic work to help pay off medical student loans or
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What you need for Locum Tenens Credentialing
Working as a locum tenens physician has an extensive list of perks, from the potential
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State of the Locum Tenens Industry
Across the healthcare industry, the demand for locum tenens services is on the rise. What
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Guide to Locum Tenens Pay Rates & Salary
Locum tenens is Latin term meaning, “to hold a place.” As a medical professional, a
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Can hiring locum tenens providers actually be cheaper?
This is a question we get often– and for good reason. It can be difficult
