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According to EMRA, 4 out of 5 new doctors start working in areas that already have a high supply of physicians, which leaves underserved areas competing to attract a slim 20% of new physicians. But how can your organization compete with larger urban institutions for ER physicians? By offering new physicians what they want, of course. In many cases, this means providing them with a great emergency physician schedule.
What are Physicians Looking for in a New Position?
JAMA Career Center recently explored the top priorities physicians set when looking for a new job. Some priorities were tangible, which could be measured or quantified, while others were intangible. Tangible priorities include compensation, location, type of health system or network, patient population, and practice or hospital size. Unfortunately, many healthcare institutions cannot change these priorities to attract new ER physicians.
Hospitals and clinics may be able to focus on intangible priorities named by JAMA to attract new emergency doctors. The organizations may promote their mission and work culture to pique the interest of like-minded doctors, for example, or advertise special opportunities to work with new medical techniques and technologies. They may even hire extra staff to improve protocol flexibility by doing the paperwork, insurance claims, and other tasks that take ER physicians away from their patients.
Enticing new emergency physicians with an attractive emergency scheduling system
In these financially challenging times, many hospitals and clinics hope to avoid pricey hiring solutions, such as offering higher wages, promising growth opportunities, or expanding their campuses. The good news is that JAMA suggests offering innovation, schedule flexibility, and greater autonomy – all of which can be accomplished through emergency medicine scheduling.
Show innovation through shift scheduling technology
Many physicians choose emergency medicine because the field is highly innovative and fast-paced, so they tend to avoid working at institutions that use old-fashioned manual scheduling. They also want sophisticated ER physician scheduling systems that provide all the bells and whistles, such as powerful customizers and schedulers, and the ability to share information and messages.
Advertise schedule flexibility and autonomy
Today’s ER physicians are acutely aware of stress and burnout, and actively seek positions that give them control over their schedule. Flexibility and autonomy in scheduling allow physicians to set preferences, such as the specific shifts they want to work and their favorite shift patterns. ER docs can also request time off or swap shifts for maximum autonomy.
Hospitals and clinics can attract new staff by advertising an emergency medicine scheduling system as a benefit – especially if they use ByteBloc. Introduced in 1989, ByteBloc is widely popular among physicians and emergency departments that use it. Features, such as flexible schedules with a variety of day types, multi-location schedules, shift definitions, shift relationships, and classifications, are attractive to physicians looking to break free from archaic scheduling systems.
For more information, connect with ByteBloc. We have the physician scheduling software you can rely on for fully-staffed emergency departments and the happy doctors who work in them.
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