Staff Care and CHG Health Care Services Honored in Utah

Congratulations to two locum tenens companies for being honored in Utah Business Magazine as two of the “Best Companies to Work For.” Utah Business is Utah’s premiere business publication and runs the survey annually. According to the publication, “These companies encourage top performance with unique benefits, employee recognition programs, educational opportunities and more, keeping their [...]

Do Locum Tenens Work on Holidays?

As I celebrate our wonderful veterans and all they have done for our country, it occurs to me that physicians considering working as locum tenens may wonder about holidays. Do locum tenens work on holidays? To answer this, just consider what your do in your regular practice. Do you work holidays now? Your answer is [...]

Locum Tenens 360 asks, “Where is Alan Kronhaus, MD?”

Who invented the physician locum tenens industry? One man who could make a claim to the title is Alan Kronhaus, MD.
Physicians have always filled in for one another to make it feasible to take vacations, attend meetings for CME, and such. But at some point, actually in the late 1970s, the practice of filling in [...]

Patients’ Perception of Locum Tenens

Do you ever have to explain yourself to a patient who doesn’t know what a locum tenens is? It seems patients are very used to seeing mid-levels when their primary care physician is out. Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and such seem very normal to them. What is your experience in developing a patient / physician [...]

Locum Tenens and the Federal Trade Commission

Physicians are a hot, hot commodity. At Locum Tenens 360, we understand that and want to give doctors some pointers about what you can do if you aren’t ready for a locum tenens recruiter, or search firm recruiter, to come knocking at your door. We believe locum tenens is a great career option…but when YOU [...]

The Benefits of Organizations in the Locum Tenens Process

The practice of locum tenens (one who temporarily fills in for another) is readily accepted in countries such as Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The working of physicians on a temporary or part-time basis in the United States still has hurdles to overcome.Physicians have always helped out one another. If a doctor is [...]

On Assignment at NASDAQ

Did you catch it earlier this week? On Assignment, Inc. CEO Peter Dameris rang the opening bell at NASDAQ. (Of course with the financial week it has been, one wonders if the timing could have been a bit better.
The opportunity was in celebration of On Assignment’s 16 years of trading on NASDAQ. On Assignment, parent [...]

Does Anybody Really Read Locum Life?

Do you read Locum Life? I get a subscription that comes to my home, and have since its inception a few years ago. Now this is just my opinion, with no facts to back it up, but it seems the publication gets thinner and thinner with each issue. Stories seem to be rehashed, just with [...]