KevinMD June 22, 2024
When you have been reviewing physician employment agreements for nearly four decades, you tend to get a little jaded about the possibility of ever seeing reasonable compensation for physicians. Although I am continually preaching to the choir about the need for reasonable physician compensation, I rarely see something that gives me encouragement that physicians may someday be paid appropriately for everything they do.
However, recently I have reviewed several agreements titled along the lines of an “Individual Specialty Residency Program Agreement.” I find the existence of these agreements to be an encouraging sign. Physician employment agreements have traditionally heaped a generous portion of administrative duties on the physician without corresponding compensation. Teaching residents has always been “just part of the...
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