| Many new doctors simply cannot wait to settle into a | | | | so these new doctors that settle to work in a location |
| normal life that doesn't involve residency and cramming | | | | that don't love will likely end up working there for years |
| for exams, and so they search through the various | | | | and years. |
| openings in physician jobs that offer full-time | | | | Other doctors, however, decide that they don't want |
| employment. Often it can be difficult for a new doctor | | | | to settle for just any position in any location. They may |
| to find a job in the location that they want to call home. | | | | decide to live in a certain location to be close to family |
| Certain areas of medicine, such as family practice, | | | | and friends, and from that location, many will work as |
| have limited turnover and therefore usually limited job | | | | traveling doctors, or locum tenens doctors. These |
| openings. Other areas of medicine, especially specialty | | | | doctors will take on contract work, which may be |
| medicine, often have a limited number of openings | | | | either short term or long term, that takes them to |
| because of the high level of specialization of the | | | | various cities where they will fill in for other doctors or |
| position. So in many cases, it is hard for new doctors | | | | surgeons who are on vacation or taking a leave of |
| to find the job they want in the location they want. | | | | absence. Locum tenens doctors have the option to |
| Many new doctors will settle for one of the many | | | | pick and choose their assignments, so they can have |
| physician jobs they can find in a location not of their | | | | the home base location where they choose while still |
| liking. Once a doctor is settled into a practice, it is not | | | | working in other locations that they choose to work in. |
| common for a doctor to leave without a major reason, | | | | |