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.

The primary reason for using locum tenens clinicians remains filling open staff positions temporarily, but healthcare ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 temporary ...

From 2009-2010, the number of hospitals and practices using locum tenens physicians rose from 72 to 85 percent, according to at Staff Care, a locum tenens company. Hospitals now account for nearly 60 ...

Joe Sturdivant, MD, a practicing locum physician and CMO of IMN Enterprises, a locum tenens staffing agency, joined Becker’s to discuss how working locum tenens has changed the way he works. Question: ...

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 ...

In a reflection of changing practice patterns, an increasing number of hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations are hiring locum tenens physicians to fill gaps in care, according ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Close to three quarters (71%) of locum tenens physicians and other advanced practice healthcare professionals working on a temporary basis have treated Covid-19 patients, ...

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