For decades, locum tenens firms have acted as matchmakers between physicians and health care facilities in need of additional support. According to the American Medical Association, at any given time, ...

GREENSBORO, N.C., Dec. 28, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Justice, a membership-based organization dedicated to protecting physicians from meritless litigation, announced yesterday at the Center for ...

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 doctors ...

Medical centers around the country use temporary clinical workers when there are staff shortages or to fill in for staff professionals on vacations and leaves of absence. Centers usually turn to ...

Locum tenens are being increasingly used in hospitals, ambulatory care centers, urgent care clinics, primary care clinics, and long-term acute care centers, and the trend shows no signs of reversing.

Hospitalized patients fare just as well when they're treated by temporary locum tenens doctors as the permanent physicians they replace, according to a new study. Researchers found no difference in 30 ...

The use of temporary physicians, known as "locum tenens," to fill staffing shortages continues to be widespread, according to a new survey from national physician staffing firm Staff Care, a company ...

In the 1970s two physicians from the University of Utah developed a program that sent temporary physicians into rural hospitals while local physicians received needed training. Their program went on ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- GetNews)MASC Medical Recruitment Firm is a leading player in recruitment, specializing in pairing the best healthcare professionals in the US with the proper organization and provider. Its ...