Their program went on to become the locum tenens industry. Locum tenens, which means “to stand in one’s place,” sends traveling physicians to rural areas to provide much needed healthcare.

About 52,000 physicians worked as locum tenens in 2019, representing about 6% of all practicing physicians. About 85% of hospitals, medical groups, and other provider venues used locum tenens ...

Thirty-seven percent of physicians and advanced practice providers that work on a locum tenens basis do it as a side job on top of an additional permanant role as a clinician, according to an April ...

More doctors are working locum tenens, taking a temporary job in hospitals, group practices and clinics. They choose locum tenens work for a variety of reasons: good pay, the freedom to live in a ...

The company’s 2022 Survey of Locum Tenens Staffing Trends: Moving Toward a More Flexible Physician Workforce indicates that 88% of hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare facilities used ...

Many physicians who are coming to the end of the end of their careers are keeping their hand in medicine by doing locum tenens work. Despite the fact that younger physicians are moving into ...

Dublin, Jan. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Locum Tenens Staffing Market by Type, by End-user, and by Region" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global locum tenens ...

I’ve worked locum tenens off and on since 1982. Flexible schedules allowed me to write several books, pursue a parallel career as a medical journalist, lead medical missions in the Philippines ...

Locum tenens for nurse practitioners (NPs), a term historically applied to physicians, refers to taking temporary assignments ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jackson + Coker Locum Tenens, a leader in staffing solutions for locum tenens including advanced practice and telehealth, today announced that its senior vice ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jackson and Coker Locum Tenens, a leader in staffing solutions for locum tenens including advanced practice, today announced it has been named a Wellbeing First ...

May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- All Star Healthcare Solutions ("All Star" or the "Company"), a premier, full-service healthcare staffing firm focused exclusively on the locum tenens market ...