Healthcare staffing and workforce solutions company Health Carousel acquired Vitruvian Medical, a surgery and anesthesia locum tenens staffing company, the firm announced Jan. 14. Vitruvian Medical is ...

H ave you talked to Ob-Gyn colleagues in locum tenens roles and wondered if this might be a good fit for you? Maybe you’ve dreamed of mixing work and travel. Or you’d like to really check out ...

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.

Eighty-five percent of healthcare facilities have used locum tenens in the past year to fill gaps caused by a shortage of physicians, according to a new survey. Hospitals, medical groups ...

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 ...

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 ...

Working as a locum tenens, or substitute, physician used to be a career swan song for older physicians. It's now becoming a career path for young and old alike, as independent practice looks less ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, locum tenens physicians were a relative anomaly at hospitals and medical groups. Today, 77% of facilities are using locum tenens physicians to maintain services while they seek ...

Is Locum Tenens the Answer for You? Individually, there are ways you may be able to cope with burnout, such as volunteering, working with a career coach, asking for help within your organization ...

She connected with a recruiter who found her a locum tenens position in Hawaii. There, she was able to work off and on for around 32 hours a week, sometimes signing up to work for three months and ...