Medscape July 21, 2022
After a year of uncertainty and decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for clinicians has rebounded — and the job market for new physicians and advanced practitioners is back to normal, or more accurately “the new normal,” according to a recently released report from Merritt Hawkins, the physician search division of AMN Healthcare.
The study is based on an analysis of job search and consulting assignments that the firm conducted on behalf of its healthcare organization clients from April 1, 2021, to March 31.
“Search engagements were down a little over 30% in 2020, but by the end of 2021, everything started spiking dramatically to the point of where we were at a 34-year high,” Michael Belkin, divisional...