{PDF} Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention: Building a Hospital Medicine Program Kenneth G. Simone(auth.)

The Right Way to Build and Sustain a Successful Hospital Medicine Program

This first complete treatment of hospitalist recruitment and retention gives you all the tools and guidance needed to build a new hospital medicine program for your hospital. Moreover, it shows you how to reinvigorate and maintain an established hospitalist program, enabling your hospital to fully benefit from the improved clinical outcomes that a hospitalist approach can offer. All the key elements for building and maintaining an effective hospitalist program are covered, including:
Developing a recruitment plan that attracts the right people and clearly sets forth expectations
Hiring the best people to meet organizational objectives
Implementing an effective retention plan that keeps high-quality staff motivated and committed to excellence
Based on the author’s extensive experience in both clinical practice and professional consultation with new and established hospital medicine programs, the book covers such critical topics as:
Significance of current trends in hospital medicine
Key factors in successful hospitalist recruitment and retention
Role of the hospitalist in recruitment, retention, and stabilization of physicians in their communities
Recruitment and retention of physicians in all specialties is a national challenge, and it is expected to become even more difficult due to an impending physician shortage. As more and more healthcare organizations come to understand and embrace the hospitalist movement, this book will prove essential in recruiting and retaining the staff they need to implement and sustain an effective hospitalist program.Content:
Chapter 1 Physician Supply and Demand (pages 1?22):
Chapter 2 The Hospitalist Marketplace (pages 23?36):
Chapter 3 The Role of the Hospitalist (pages 37?44):
Chapter 4 The Hospitalist Recruitment Pool (pages 45?55):
Chapter 5 Challenges Recruiting Hospitalists (pages 57?71):
Chapter 6 Incentive Plans (pages 73?82):
Chapter 7 National Recruitment Initiatives (pages 83?90):
Chapter 8 Retention Initiatives (pages 91?102):
Chapter 9 Putting it all Together: The Site Visit and Interview (pages 103?135):
Chapter 10 The Contract (pages 137?143):
Chapter 11 Practice Management Strategies (pages 145?166):
Chapter 12 Targeting Program Leadership (pages 167?192):
Chapter 13 Concluding Thoughts (pages 193?195):