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Physician Placement Program (March 27, 2008)

For the 2007-2008 recruitment “year” which began 7/1/2007 and ends 6/30/2008, the Physician Placement Program has recruited twelve physicians to the following Wisconsin communities: Redgranite, Portage, Columbus, Medford, Tomah. Waupaca, Racine, Madison (2), Kenosha (2) & Reedsburg.  Six of these twelve communities have a population under 9,000, and five of these physicians will be working in clinics that are designated as underserved. All of these physicians will practice primary care medicine (11 FPs & 1 IM/Ped).  Our Physician Recruitment Program has now assisted in recruiting a total of 437 physicians to Wisconsin since the program’s inception in 1979.  The need for primary care physicians continues to be strong, as our program currently has 93 family medicine, 41 general internal medicine and 21 pediatric medicine positions available statewide.  This year, we have chosen to concentrate more on our efforts to attract specialty physician areas of orthopedic surgery, general surgery, radiology and Ob/Gyn.  We have increased to a new level the amount of advertising we are doing in specialty journals and on internet physician recruitment websites, as well as conducting a mass-mailing of recruitment posters to residency program in several nearby states.  This year promises to be more challenging than ever as the need for primary care and specialty care physician’s increases, while the supply remains at levels below what’s required.  Our Physician Recruitment Program efforts on behalf of Wisconsin clinics, hospitals, and healthcare systems is one more way to increase your chances of successfully recruiting the providers your patient population requires.  We look forward to the challenge this year offers.  For more information on the Physician Placement Program, please contact Randy Munson at 800-385-0005 (ext. 22) or 608-261-1889, email: rlmunson@wisc.edu.

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Physician Placement Program (March 2008)

For the 2007-2008 recruitment “year” which began 7/1/2007 and ends 6/30/2008, the Physician Placement Program has recruited nine physicians to the following Wisconsin communities: Columbus, Medford, Tomah. Waupaca, Racine, Madison, Kenosha (2) & Reedsburg. Five of these nine communities have a population of under 9,000, and three of these physicians will be working in clinics that are designated as underserved. All of these physicians will practice primary care medicine (8 FPs & 1 IM/Ped). Our Physician Recruitment Program has now assisted in recruiting a total of 434 physicians to Wisconsin since the program’s inception in 1979. The need for primary care physicians continues to be strong, as our program currently has 91 family medicine, 40 general internal medicine and 21 pediatric medicine positions available statewide. This year, we have chosen to concentrate more on our efforts to attract specialty physician areas of orthopedic surgery, general surgery, radiology and Ob/Gyn. We have increased to a new level the amount of advertising we are doing in specialty journals and on internet physician recruitment websites, as well as conducting a mass-mailing of recruitment posters to residency program in several nearby states. This year promises to be more challenging than ever as the need for primary care and specialty care physician’s increases, while the supply remains at levels below what’s required. Our Physician Recruitment Program efforts on behalf of Wisconsin clinics, hospitals, and healthcare systems is one more way to increase your chances of successfully recruiting the providers your patient population requires. We look forward to the challenge this year offers. For more information on the Physician Placement Program, please contact Randy Munson at 800-385-0005 (ext. 22) or 608-261-1889, email: rlmunson@wisc.edu.