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How each specialty gets hired.

Recruiting an anesthesiologist and recruiting a family physician are different searches, with different pay, different boards and different costs while the seat is empty. Each guide here covers one specialty.

Arrived from an old specialty ad page? physicianads.com ran classified ads by specialty around 2000. Those pages are gone. Each specialty’s old address now opens its own guide; a specialty with no guide, such as medical genetics, lands here.

What every recruiting guide covers.

The same checklist, in the same order, for every specialty, so a recruiter filling two positions can compare them. A guide goes up only when every item on it is done.

  1. What the specialty earns

    The national mean and median wage, and the states that pay most and employ most, from the federal pay survey with its release named. Where the survey has no series for the specialty, the guide says so and names the group that counts it.

  2. Where candidates look

    The job boards that carry the specialty, specialty boards first, each with how it charges as recorded in the directory, and the locum agencies that place it.

  3. What the vacancy costs

    A worked example from the recruitment cost calculator with the specialty chosen, and which published figures exist for it and which the reader has to supply.

  4. The channels that fit

    Society career centers, residency and fellowship outreach, locum-to-permanent, retained or contingency search, in-house recruiters and referrals, compared in one table: the channel, what it costs, and what to decide.

  5. The rules that bite recruiting

    Noncompete agreements, pay transparency, and the kickback and self-referral rules on how physicians are paid, each cited on the regulator’s own page.

  6. Three questions answered

    How long the search takes, what a recruiter charges, and where physicians in the specialty look for jobs.

  7. A verified date and the sources

    The day the guide was last checked, and every page it relies on, listed with the date it was read.

Specialties with a recruiting guide.

Every specialty with a federal pay series, plus the specialties recruiters search for most. A name links to its guide once the guide is published.

Medical specialties