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TOP 5 REASONS TO BE A PHYSIATRIST

After 30+ years in physiatry recruitment, I find there are many reasons why a physician might want to become a physiatrist.  It’s funny but lately there have been many more medical students at physiatry meetings than there ever was in the past.  I tell them that they’ve picked a good specialty!

First, a physiatrist’s lifestyle might provide a good work/life balance.  This is because a PM&R physician can choose to provide general outpatient work or interventional work which typically is a 9 AM – 5 PM schedule.  The same can now be said for some inpatient work because now some facilities [ . . . ]

Top 5 States To Be A Doctor

According to a recent article, the top 5 states to be a doctor are SD, ID, IA ND and WI. The article considered a number of factors when determining the best place for a doctor to practice to include compensation, quality of care in the state, burnout rate, cost of living, physician density, rate of malpractice suits, quality of life (crime, economy, health care, education, transportation) and incentives to practice (loan forgiveness, loan payback program, lower malpractice insurance, signing bonuses, production incentives).

As it turns out, Farr Healthcare, Inc. rarely gets requests from physiatrists for physiatry practice opportunities in these [ . . . ]

Physiatry Practice Opportunities

There are so many physiatry practice opportunities.  Everyone wants an inpatient physiatrist and physiatry subspecialties like spine are in demand.  And, locations that physiatrists couldn’t find jobs at such as Miami now have practice opportunities.  Here’s a sampling of some of these physical medicine and rehabilitation practice opportunities:

The map below shows you the number of physiatrist job openings in each state. The darker areas on the map show where physiatrists earn the highest salaries across all 50 states.

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