It’s Hospitalist Recruiting Season
September through November is the season when large numbers of residents make their decisions about where to begin their hospitalist career. The new recruits are being barraged with job offers like never before, yet choose they must. Some will enter into the process with a “buyers market” mentality and approach their first job with a wait-and-see-what-they-do-for-me attitude toward their practice group, rather than engaging and committing themselves to the practice group and the facility they serve. Others will give their first job their all, with the wisdom maturity to understand that the first job should be approached with humility and respect for their more senior partners. Those who choose the latter will find that their practice partners will be more than happy to respond with a mentoring attitude when given the opportunity to do so.
If I could offer one piece of advice to the new hospitalists it is this: be a team player in your practice group from Day 1. With a team oriented approach all good things can follow. Without that, it won’t really matter where you work because without being a team player your career can have only limited consequence. Think team.
