| Healthcare sector always has a great demand of | | | | a win-win situation for both the parties. Interestingly, |
| skilful resources or qualified doctors throughout the | | | | nearly 40% of the locum doctors are seasoned |
| year due to its nature of business. Locum doctors are | | | | doctors who chose the work purely due to its flexibility. |
| like freelancers who hop around from one hospital or | | | | As a matter of fact, almost all the hospitals, nursing |
| health care unit to another depending on personal | | | | homes, HMOs, physician practice management |
| requirements. In fact, the term locum tenens doctor is | | | | companies and solo practitioners need the help of |
| Latin in origin and it means to stand-in or substitute. | | | | locum doctors to meet their medical demands. The |
| Locum work is inseparable from the healthcare world | | | | rapid increase in the number of locum recruitment |
| given the fact that mortality and morbidity rates have | | | | agencies across the globe is a clear indication of the |
| drastically dropped in the last few decades. It is also | | | | thriving demands for locum doctors. |
| believed that about 50-80% of the average total health | | | | The shortage of medical staff in the health care |
| workforces in hospitals are locum doctors. And | | | | sector in the UK has opened doors to locum doctors |
| majority of these doctors are hired through locum | | | | searching for careers in medicine. First Call Medical, a |
| recruitment agencies specializing in locum placement in | | | | leading recruitment agency specializes in short term |
| various positions. Fresh medical graduates who are in | | | | and permanent locum recruitment in the UK. Most of |
| the lookout for a medical career are the most locum | | | | these locum doctor agencies offers employment |
| doctors because these temporary experiences in | | | | opportunities in a wide range of positions namely- |
| different hospitals and areas of medicine allow them | | | | Locum fy2 positions, consultants, senior house officers, |
| the opportunity to learn and choose the right career | | | | registrar jobs and/or surgical jobs. The job of a locum |
| path. Therefore, a locum doctor is an indispensable | | | | doctor is full of challenges given the fact that he/she |
| part of the medical community because they act as | | | | often put to work with unfamiliar doctors, different |
| temporary substitutes for understaffed hospitals and | | | | practice styles, expectations and ethical cultures. At |
| healthcare facilities. | | | | times, the locum doctor may also face bear the brunt |
| Hospitals and other private healthcare facility work | | | | of being one-the job at hand may fail to fulfil the |
| under pressure all the time and devoid of holidays or | | | | promises made through the recruitment agencies like |
| working hours especially emergency. On the other | | | | expecting more than what was agreed during the |
| hand, regular doctors or senior residents may need to | | | | hiring process. So, a locum work is an interesting and |
| go on leave, vacation or possibly suffer from some | | | | learning yet challenging one. Why wait, start now. |
| illnesses. In these situations locum doctors are roped in | | | | Search your web browser for the best Locum |
| to fill-in the vacancy temporarily and hence it works as | | | | Agencies and live up your medical career. |