Physician Recruitment

Recruiting and retaining physician talent is a cornerstone of a strong hospital and medical practice. Physician recruitment teams play a critical role in this area, and high-performance is vital to success.

Recognized as an authority on hospital-physician relationships, Barlow/McCarthy provides services to foster physician recruitment team development and implementation. We use data, market-tested processes, and industry insights to support recruitment teams and develop recruitment strategies, actions, and tools. With more than 20 years of experience working in hospitals, we personalize our approach to help you reach your physician recruitment goals. Leaders and teams often come to Barlow/McCarthy because:

  • The recruitment team needs assistance with: gaining more candidates, job postings to attract the right candidates, and interview skills to learn candidates’ needs and fit.
  • Increase in requisitions and limited staff to cover the organization’s needs. Let us do your recruitment sourcing for you.
  • Organization changes that require a new structure to optimize recruitment.
  • Benefit from an outside perspective to identify tools and processes for optimizing your recruitment approach.

Your Needs. Our Support.

Test out a new approach, or let us help with a challenge today. Email us at info@barlowmccarthy.com  or use the button below to schedule an objective 30-minute no-obligation conversation.

Our team has experience ranging from executive-level hospital management to patient care, giving us an unparalleled perspective of healthcare structure.

Count on us to work with you to retool your recruitment team to elevate you to the next level based on your strategies, processes, and open positions. We’ll meet with your key stakeholders to discuss strengths and weaknesses and observe your team’s daily process. Whether building a program from the ground up or advancing an existing program, we’ll get to know you so we can customize a solution that works best for you.

Recruitment team rebuild support includes:

  • Observing and evaluating processes and structure
  • Recommendations on ways to maximize your talent and resources
  • Field coaching and daily support services to promote team development
  • Access to recruitment best practices for like-sized organizations, including site visits
  • Use of models, tools, and templates for staffing, process, tracking, and reporting

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Successful physician recruitment requires the right team, focused on the right work, led by effective leaders. We support team development by helping you hire, train and coach your team. Team development support includes:

  • Searching, interviewing, and recommending high-performance talent
  • In-person or virtual orientation for new recruiters
  • Team coaching sessions for continued success

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Recruitment teams can be challenged with recruiter turnover and a demanding search volume.  Barlow/McCarthy consultants offer a unique solution to these challenges we call “gap strategy.” Our team of experienced experts can function as a short-term extension of your recruitment team when the need arises. When limited by staff or resources to meet search demand, we’ll provide daily support until you are able to operate at your full potential. Gap strategy support can include:

  • Offloading some of the tedious but important elements of effective recruitment that allows your team to focus on the onsite priorities
  • Sourcing qualified leads
  • Comprehensive candidate screening
  • Training and onboarding of new team members
  • Implementing a smooth transition of support back to your team when ready
  • Customizable solutions to drive measurable results

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Keeping your sourcing pipeline full is a constant challenge in recruitment.  Our support services provide much more than lead generation. When you work with us, you benefit from a strategic partner, sending you screened and vetted leads that are solely for your organization. This differs from retained and contingency firms whose leads go to multiple organizations.

Our team of experts will step in and serve as members of your team. We will work to tailor sourcing support wherever you need it most. Sourcing support can include:

  • Executing cold calls and texts on behalf of your organization
  • Launching campaigns to reach active and passive prospects
  • Making use of and optimizing your internal sourcing tools
  • Implementing a trusted candidate screening and interview process
  • Expert email sourcing promoting your opportunities, learn more HERE

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To successfully recruit new physicians, recruiters must be able to earn and advance relationships with candidates. It starts with the ability to navigate each unique candidate conversation. Our 2-day sales training workshop offers hands-on learning opportunities for recruiters to learn, practice and improve upon their craft. Topics covered include:

  • Staging your internal value proposition
  • Enhancing communication skills to advance candidate relationships
  • Asking better questions to confirm candidate fit
  • Fine-tuning closing skills for each stage of the recruitment process
  • Creating specialty-specific promotional content
  • Selling your organization’s unique benefits
  • Utilizing tools and resources effectively to better find candidates

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Our Expertise

Physician Relations

Hospital and medical practice success is built on the strength of relationships with physicians. Without that, there is no growth. Field liaison programs remain the most effective way to create and maintain meaningful connectivity with physicians.

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Onboarding

We know from deep experience that the best physician onboarding begins with a disciplined plan to integrate new physicians into existing cultures. The key to physician satisfaction is has a lot to do with how we get started.

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Medical Staff Dev Planning

Hospital and medical practice success is built on the strength of relationships with physicians. Without that, there is no growth. Field liaison programs remain the most effective way to create and maintain meaningful connectivity with physicians.

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From the Blog

Physician Recruitment Blog

The Art of Optimizing Physician Recruitment at Job Fairs

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Is Your Recruitment Team at Championship Level?

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Physician Recruitment: Time for a Reset on Job Postings

By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com There comes a time in every job postings life when it needs a reset. Usually, we would say that is at least every 6 months, if it is a high priority posting you might prefer to do it every 3 months or even every...

Physician Recruitment with Market Shortage: Let’s Get Creative!

By: Tony Barlow | tbarlow@barlowmccarthy.com Everyone feels it; healthcare is facing a critical shortage of physicians. As the demand for healthcare services continues to grow, the supply of qualified physicians is struggling to keep pace. Physician recruitment is...

Next Level Communication Strategies for Physician Recruitment

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Business Development Blog

A Big Finish Assumes We’re Strong on Each Step

By: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA | kbarlow@barlowmccarthy.com ‘Tis the season… This is usually a good time to consider whether plans were completed, goals were met and if rewards for our work are in the offing. In our space, getting to big goals means we’ve been committed to...

Insights from The Power of Regret

By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | ammcarthy@barlowmccarthy.com Regrets can be a powerful force for growth and development. That’s the premise made by author and researcher Daniel Pink in his most recent book, "The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward."...

Why Leadership Coaching? Why Now?

By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com After more than 30 years of leading and consulting health systems, I saw an opportunity to help those in leadership roles develop further to become more successful. The path to enable that support led me to...

A Mentor or Career Coach: For Professional and Personal Growth

By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com The concept of mentor or career coach can mean different things to different people. Definitions can vary based on the job function, personal experience, and other factors, but it seems there are common themes...

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