Recruitment of Family Physicians Blake Fagan, MD Director, MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Program Asheville, NC
Goals Why recruit Family Medicine How to recruit Family Medicine
Why Family Medicine Approximately 90% of Internal Medicine subspecialize Approximately 50% of Pediatrics subspecialize Affordable Care Act In Western North Carolina need 140 primary care physicians now
Residency Programs What is happening at residency programs? What is happening at hospital systems that have residency programs?
What do you need? For what positions are you being asked to recruit? Outpatient adult medicine Geriatrics Outpatient family medicine Inpatient and outpatient OB
What do you think the family doctors want? Money Lifestyle Control Not to be dumped on Not to have to worry about the business side
What do you think the family doctors want? See varied groups of patients Do a variety of things Loan Repayment Money
To Recruit, you (and your hospital system) have to be creative FQHC model Encourage/allow newborns and kids Prenatal care Procedures Teaching – Need time and money Colleagues HPSA score Spouse Potential spouse
To Recruit, you (and your hospital system) have to be creative Sponsor a rotation Sponsor an extra resident Critical Access Hospitals
The Product is heterogeneous 455 family medicine residency programs Areas of the country of different strengths Programs have different strengths Individual physicians have different strengths
Summary You know why you need to recruit Hopefully you learned something about how to recruit