| Though residents of a major American city have | | | | consists of laying out the carpet by citizens and |
| known for sometime that the community needs | | | | assuring that both the community and hospital will |
| doctors, it is only recently that they realized that | | | | show the benefits that the potential doctors can use |
| doctors also need the community. It is essential that | | | | to their full advantage. Advertising in major medical |
| one key objective in any hiring effort is presenting a | | | | publications throughout the country is the first step in |
| community as a much sought-after place to work and | | | | hiring potential physicians. Letters are written to the |
| reside in. Potential new doctors would want to make | | | | medical schools in the area in the hope of luring |
| sure that they and their families can avail of good | | | | interested medical school graduates or residents. |
| housing, education, socio-cultural opportunities in a safe | | | | Friends of friends of the community's young doctors |
| environment that can cater to their needs. | | | | are constantly contacted, while young members of the |
| The chief goal of the hospital board, administration and | | | | community who are known to engage in Medicine are |
| staff is to recruit the physicians their hospital needs. | | | | asked to stay in close contact. |
| The recruiting hospital's experiences have taught them | | | | Once interest in the area displayed by the physician, he |
| that the most successful kind of recruiting involves an | | | | is invited over and shown the town. He then gets a |
| effort by the entire community. Careful observation | | | | feel of the hospital and its staff members after a good |
| and study have revealed what areas of health care | | | | meal. These may take place in the hospital premises |
| delivery still need to be improved, and the recruitment | | | | but the hospital staff sometimes throw parties in their |
| process will continue until these needs have been | | | | own homes to make the potential new medical |
| taken care of. | | | | doctors feel welcome. |
| A major concern in US most rural areas is the | | | | He will be toured on the existing support services in |
| long-standing lack of medical practitioners within their | | | | the hospital like the radiology and pathology laboratory, |
| community. A current federal publication has, in fact, | | | | as well as their efforts in obtaining equipments needed |
| defined these rural areas as medically undeserved | | | | to encourage a new medical field. They will also inform |
| communities. It includes a thorough criteria per | | | | him of the continuing education plan, and that they will |
| community which involves a series of designated | | | | assist him in acquiring a good office space and an |
| points in brackets such as the rate of those below the | | | | adequate insurance policy. |
| bracket of poverty, the number of residents beyond, | | | | The medical realm is not the only effort the physician |
| 65, the occurrences of infant deaths and the ratio of | | | | recruiters must exercise. The physicians that are |
| one primary care doctor to a thousand of the | | | | parents must be introduced to the new school their |
| populace. | | | | children will be going to so that the children can come |
| Doctors who specialize in obstetrics-gynecology, | | | | and get a feel of their would-be school. |
| pediatrics, family medicine and internal medicine are the | | | | A meeting with local bankers and housing agents will |
| only ones considered to be primary care doctors. A | | | | be set so that the new physician can be advised on |
| consensus between the board of directors and | | | | the best deals on mortgage and loan opportunities, as |
| medical staff on what services are needed must be | | | | well as available housing assistance. But as any team, |
| made after establishing this. Hiring more ob | | | | the board of directors and their staff can only do so |
| gynecologists has been the main priority of some | | | | much. The members of the community must |
| hospitals in the community. Also needed are additional | | | | complement the efforts of the hospital recruitment |
| family practice and emergency room trained | | | | team by kindly answering any questions the potential |
| physicians. | | | | recruits may have and acting as resource persons |
| The very complex means of recruiting doctors | | | | when it comes to their community. |