Below are seven established and emerging physician and surgeon recruitment companies serving healthcare organizations across the United States. Each company offers different services, areas of specialization, and approaches to physician recruitment. The companies are presented for informational purposes and are not listed in any specific order or ranking. Recruiting qualified physicians and surgeons has become…
Every health system leader knows the math of an unfilled physician position. A vacancy isn’t a neutral pause — it is lost patient access, strained colleagues, deferred revenue, and a recruiting clock that often runs for the better part of a year. In underserved communities, the cost is measured in patients who simply go without…
For decades, the path for an internationally trained physician to practice in the United States ran through one narrow gate: repeat a full U.S. residency, regardless of how many years you’d already practiced as an attending abroad. That gate is starting to open. Since 2023, a growing number of states have passed what are commonly…
Across the country, hospitals and health systems are sitting on unfilled physician vacancies—each costing an estimated five- to eight-figure sum a year in lost revenue, locum spend, and overstretched staff—while a pool of experienced, foreign-trained attending physicians remains largely untapped. The project physician shortage is expected to reach nearly 150,000 by 2027, according to US…
For physicians trained in Canada, practicing in the United States is often far more straightforward than it is for most internationally trained doctors—but the path still has specific steps, and the details trip people up. This guide walks through how it generally works, the common questions, and where the real friction tends to be. The…
If you’re a U.S.-trained physician thinking about practicing in Canada, there’s a good chance the path is far easier than you expect—especially in the last couple of years. Facing physician shortages, Canadian provinces have moved aggressively to welcome American doctors, and for many, the door is now wide open. This guide explains how it generally…
For hospitals and clinics, “do we need to sponsor a visa?” is often the question that stalls an otherwise promising hire of an international physician. The honest answer: sometimes—and it depends entirely on the candidate’s immigration status. The good news is that the options are more navigable than most hiring teams assume, and some of…
The new state “provisional” licensure laws have opened a real pool of experienced international physicians to hospitals that previously assumed they were off-limits. But “this physician can be hired under the new pathway” isn’t a yes/no you can eyeball from a CV. These laws have specific eligibility criteria, and while they vary by state, they…