With so much effort focused on the recruitment process, it’s easy to relax after you’ve hired a candidate. But the process is just beginning, and now it must continue as a retention strategy.  The nature of hospital medicine lends itself to high physician turnover. Without an assigned patient base, an office and office staff to worry about, a hospitalist can consider changing positions more easily than primary care physicians.

In addition, the newness of the hospitalist model attracts physicians who are willing to try something new not knowing how they will like it. Add in the prospect of high workloads, and you have all the elements for a high turnover rate.

Without oversimplifying, you can try these retention tactics:

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Kirk Matthews, MBA