One quarter of surveyed physicians say that temporary “locum tenens” work has expanded their case experience and provided a competitive professional advantage. A locum tenens covers the duties of an ...

Locum tenens are being increasingly used in hospitals, ambulatory care centers, urgent care clinics, primary care clinics, and long-term acute care centers, and the trend shows no signs of reversing.

Locum tenens clinicians can be a short-term solution for doctor shortages, but CMOs must plan carefully how to use them. Locum tenens physicians can plug short-term gaps in the physician workforce, ...

Thirty-seven percent of physicians and advanced practice providers that work on a locum tenens basis do it as a side job on top of an additional permanant role as a clinician, according to an April ...

Eighty-five percent of healthcare facilities have used locum tenens in the past year to fill gaps caused by a shortage of physicians, according to a new survey. Hospitals, medical groups, and other ...

In a reflection of changing practice patterns, an increasing number of hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations are hiring locum tenens physicians to fill gaps in care, according ...

The use of temporary physicians, known as "locum tenens," to fill staffing shortages continues to be widespread, according to a new survey from national physician staffing firm Staff Care, a company ...

Hospitalized patients fare just as well when they're treated by temporary locum tenens doctors as the permanent physicians they replace, according to a new study. Researchers found no difference in 30 ...

About 52,000 physicians worked as locum tenens in 2019, representing about 6% of all practicing physicians. About 85% of hospitals, medical groups, and other provider venues used locum tenens doctors ...