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4 things every resident should know for their job search

Completing your medical residency is a major accomplishment. Searching for your first position as a physician can pose its own challenges. Here are four things every resident should know for their job search and employment after residency.

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Life after residency: Discover the perfect practice location

As the end of medical training approaches, residents and fellows must decide where they want to practice medicine. Once they’ve considered their ideal practice setting, it’s time to focus on geographic location.

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Starting your job hunt? Use these employment resources

For many medical residents and fellows, hunting for your first position as a physician will begin soon. If you’re considering entering into an employment arrangement, rather than running your own private medical practice, here are some resources you’ll need.

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Where you should practice: New tool reveals lay of the land

The United States has more than 6,000 designated health professional shortage areas in primary care alone. With the AMA Health Workforce Mapper, an interactive tool, you and your staff can determine locations to establish or expand your practice based on regional needs for access to care, geographic features and the existing health care workforce.

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How med students handle uncertainty could predict career future

Medical students’ level of tolerance for ambiguity may be closely tied to how they deal with stress and where they will practice, according to a recent study in Academic Medicine. The survey asked incoming students to rate how they agreed with statements such as, “I don’t like to work on a problem unless there is a possibility of getting a clear-cut and unambiguous answer.”

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What you need to make smart employment decisions

There are a lot of considerations when it comes to entering into employment versus private practice, and it can be challenging for new physicians—or physicians seeking a change—to navigate.

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How to take innovations beyond the exam room

Medical residents have grown up in a tech-obsessed world and are fluent in digital technologies, making them poised to deliver tomorrow’s lifesaving inventions. A “serial entrepreneur” with decades of success shared her best tips for bringing new innovations into fruition at a special education session for residents during the 2014 AMA Annual Meeting.

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Employed or self-employed: Find out who's more satisfied

Employed and self-employed physicians are about equally satisfied with their work situations, according to a recent Medscape survey of more than 4,600 physicians, but self-employed doctors are somewhat more satisfied with their current practice situation than employed doctors.

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More residents choose family medicine, but gaps remain in primary care workforce

Recent boosts still will fall short of increasing the primary care workforce to the overall 40 percent level recommended by GME policy experts.

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