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Friday, 9 February 2018

Understanding Locum Tenens Hospitalist Better

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By Jose Reed


Locum tenens is a latin word for place holder. It refers to a person who temporarily replace another person to fulfill its duties for the meantime. In the medical world, it refers to a medical staff who works for a certain period of time.

Hospitalists are in demand in the industry right now. With that, the locum tenens hospitalist are increasingly hired to fill up those jobs. Below are benefits one could get for being a lucom.

On the other hand, many physicians are also doing this kind of job for many reasons. One of them is that they will be able to choose when at what hospitals they would like to work. That is convenient to those who would only want a part time kind of job. With this they will be able to have a lot of free time compare to those permanent ones.

With permanent physicians, they have to be at the hospital all the time. They are always being paged to attend some patients. At the end of the day, they have to send in some reports. If there are any meetings, they have to attend them all the time even though it is already out of their schedule.

One of the nicest benefit to this is, you have the opportunity to travel. You can travel freely, and you are even paid to travel, how cool is that. That is because, you will be assigned to different locations. One day you need to be in Africa to do some medical mission, and another day in Switzerland where you are assigned in a rural health care facility. You can even choose where you would want to be assigned.

For physicians who are the adventurous kind, being a locum will allow you to experience different working environments. This gives you the opportunity to be able to fly to different countries. That is because sometimes you will be assigned to a rural area, lets say that is on Hawaii. Days after, you are needed for a health operation program in Vietnam. See, perfect for those who would like to travel.

If you a resident physician can also be a locum at the same time. For those who would like to earn double, this might help. Imagine, being paid regularly and if you have some job that needs to be done in another organization then you just attend that for a certain period while being paid for another.

They will have the opportunity to malpractice through different healthcare organization which is good especially those doctors who would like to practice different types. They even get to practice to various locations. Housing can even be provided. All of this is covered by the organization.

However, since most locums are freelance general practitioner meaning they works independently they do not have any benefits, which means, taxes, health insurance, and retirement fund is shouldered by them. That is the downside to being one. In other words, they have to work financially for themselves despite the high salary.




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