Evaluating physician employment history/CV's

[drusso]

I'm reviewing CV's for an agency...What do you think of MD/DO's with frequent employment turnover? I understand maybe the first couple gigs after residency don't work out, but I mean mid-career types with a new job every 2-3 years. Seems to be a behavioral marker for distress, discontent, or a cry for help?

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[DOctorJay]

Are these mostly hospital employee positions with the promise of a high base which then gets slashed when they don't meet productivity standards?


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[drusso]

Are these mostly hospital employee positions with the promise of a high base which then gets slashed when they don't meet productivity standards?


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I think that you're on to something...

 

[deleted185747]

I'm reviewing CV's for an agency...What do you think of MD/DO's with frequent employment turnover? I understand maybe the first couple gigs after residency don't work out, but I mean mid-career types with a new job every 2-3 years. Seems to be a behavioral marker for distress, discontent, or a cry for help?

Does not sound like a good long term employee.

 

[DOctorJay]

Or they're tired of getting screwed and are sticking it to the system.

Slow ramp up in practice and then cut ties rinse and repeat. Not someone I'd want to work with but I understand the mentality.

drusso, can you see if it's a pattern at the places they're working? Could be toxic health networks.


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[lonelobo]

What exactly does reviewing CV's for an agency mean?
You say yea or nea based on CV? Locums?

Interviewing doctors I have found some of the best candidates are the ones with the worst CV and Vice versa

 

[drusso]

What exactly does reviewing CV's for an agency mean?
You say yea or nea based on CV? Locums?

Interviewing doctors I have found some of the best candidates are the ones with the worst CV and Vice versa

I'm screening applicants for a head-hunter who is trying to fill a position within an organization. The organization is looking for a very specific kind of skill-set. I'm like a sub-contractor.

 

[SeniorWrangler]

I've been in health care organizations who've literally fired individual providers or even whole divisions bit by bit, had the security guards show up to stand by while they cleaned out their desks as if they'd made bomb threats, then escorted them out of the building with no notice or coverage plan or explanation. So this stuff happens, but it if keeps happening to the same guy at multiple locations that probably means something.
The other pattern I've seen is that Doctor Bob will work someplace and piss people off for a long time but nothing will happen, and then he gets in trouble or takes a sabbatical and suddenly all that ill will comes to a head and Doctor Bob can never come back.

 

[drusso]

I've been in health care organizations who've literally fired individual providers or even whole divisions bit by bit, had the security guards show up to stand by while they cleaned out their desks as if they'd made bomb threats, then escorted them out of the building with no notice or coverage plan or explanation. So this stuff happens, but it if keeps happening to the same guy at multiple locations that probably means something.
The other pattern I've seen is that Doctor Bob will work someplace and piss people off for a long time but nothing will happen, and then he gets in trouble or takes a sabbatical and suddenly all that ill will comes to a head and Doctor Bob can never come back.

Yep. This group wants someone to be visible in the community and not just passing through.

 

[Ducttape]

I've been in health care organizations who've literally fired individual providers or even whole divisions bit by bit, had the security guards show up to stand by while they cleaned out their desks as if they'd made bomb threats, then escorted them out of the building with no notice or coverage plan or explanation.

Actually.... I talked to a VP and head of security at my organization - apparently standard practice for firing any and all employees. Escort out, take security badge, not allowed back for 24 hours. Go to HR the next day to get severance package

To reduce likelihood of workplace violence.

They did that to one of the nurses - 60 years old, thin, looks like a grandma, sp VCF. (In her case - full pay and benefits 3 months + accumulated PTO)



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[ampaphb]

Are these mostly hospital employee positions with the promise of a high base which then gets slashed when they don't meet productivity standards?


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Yes, but but does that mean they are lazy? Or do they actually take the time to talk to their patients? Are their productivity targets unrealistic? Was their "overhead" calculated to some ludicrous percent of their gross? Or are they just naive docs with poor business acumen?

 

[Apollyon]

They did that to one of the nurses - 60 years old, thin, looks like a grandma, sp VCF. (In her case - full pay and benefits 3 months + accumulated PTO)


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Vertebral compression fracture, vena cava filter, or something else entirely?

 

[Ducttape]

vertebral compression fracture from a fall.