By Meghan McMahon, MS
You're about to launch the search for a primary care physician in your practice. You'll post on Internet job boards, you'll advertise in medical journals and you'll hope for referrals.
But are other recruiters beating you to the best candidates? Could they be filling positions for less total cost? How would you know? Now you can use the MGMA & ASPR Recruiter Benchmarking Report to learn how your physician and nonphysician provider recruiting efforts compare with those of peer practices.
MGMA partnered with the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (ASPR) last year to develop a performance tracking survey exclusively for in-house recruiters. The responsibilities held by practice- or hospital-employed physician recruiters can be significantly more dynamic than those of external recruiters. We kept that in mind when developing a tool to gather information from health care recruitment departments across the country.
The Recruiter Benchmarking Report displays data from folks who work for the establishment they're staffing, not from outsourced recruiters. Because of this, the report is first of its kind – an unmatched asset for staff physician recruiters to develop performance benchmarks in their department.
Have you ever wanted to know:
- The average amount of time it takes your peers to recruit an anesthesiologist?
- The average salary of a physician recruiter in the western United States?
- The most common method to close a search?
Well, we did, too, and this report delivers.
It looks at the total cost of a job search and the months to fill a position, listed by specialty and broken out by variables such as population classification and geographic section. Plus, it features tables with compensation and incentive benchmarks of staff recruiters and their colleagues, and provides demographic information on recruiting departments.
Meghan McMahon is MGMA's lead survey analyst on the MGMA Academic Practice Compensation and Production Survey for Faculty and Management Report and the Recruiter Benchmarking Report.
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