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.

There is little hard evidence to support the widely held perception that locum doctors present a greater risk of causing harm to patients, according to new research published by the Journal of the ...

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 ...

Working arrangements for locum doctors pose significant patient safety challenges for the NHS in England, although there are opportunities to be grasped too, finds qualitative research involving a ...

From 2009-2010, the number of hospitals and practices using locum tenens physicians rose from 72 to 85 percent, according to at Staff Care, a locum tenens company. Hospitals now account for nearly 60 ...

Gives doctors instant access to medical locum jobs searches while on the move JCJ Locums, a market leading medical recruitment agency and part of HCL plc, has launched a free iPhone application (app) ...

I’ve worked locum tenens off and on since 1982. Flexible schedules allowed me to write several books, pursue a parallel career as a medical journalist, lead medical missions in the Philippines, and ...

More doctors are working locum tenens, taking a temporary job in hospitals, group practices and clinics. They choose locum tenens work for a variety of reasons: good pay, the freedom to live in a new ...

For decades, locum tenens firms have acted as matchmakers between physicians and health care facilities in need of additional support. According to the American Medical Association, at any given time, ...

There is little hard evidence to support the widely held perception that locum doctors present a greater risk of causing harm to patients. There is little hard evidence to support the widely held ...