Last year at the annual American College of Emergency Physicians show we had the chance to bring in two of our favorite locums doctors, Dr. Mandaar Gokhale and...
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You could safely say that Dr. Eva McCullars was born to be a doctor. Growing up in Prague, she would answer the home phone – starting as early as five years...
LeaAnn Schroeter, MD would be the first to tell you that a physician working locum tenens is presented with a variety of challenges and even downsides. Dr...
When Dr. Sean Ryan, a psychiatrist, finished his residency at U.C. San Diego, he was already considering an international locum tenens position. What he didn’t...
Each year Medical Economics holds a physician writing contest where it asks physicians to write a short essay on a particular topic. This year’s topic was “How...
Dr. Ripal Patel, MD, M.P.H. nods with an understanding smile when fellow ER physicians chronicle the trials of their full-time positions. Working days they...
What do the summits of Everest and Kilimanjaro, a small cancer clinic in Ghana, and Alaska’s historic 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail all have in common? For most...
Dr. Amy Wecker grew up outside of Boston, went to college in New Orleans, medical school in Israel and residency in New York City. After residency she settled...
Dr. Thomas O’Mara’s journey to medicine started off with a love of science. In high school, he had a science teacher who had the students do research projects...
There are many paths that lead physicians to try locum tenens. For Dr. Elizabeth Lumpkin, an anesthesiologist from Washington, the locums journey began with...