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2025 Doctor Job Outlook: Why Go Locum Tenens?

Barton Associates

When you think of healthcare, you likely think of doctors first. One way to increase access to care to patients who need it—especially those who live in rural areas with a higher shortage of healthcare professionals—is for current physicians to take locum tenens positions. in April 2025. Where do physicians commonly work?

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Behind the stethoscope: A conversation with Dr. Osman Saleem

Sound Physicians

I attended medical school in America and completed my residency at the Catholic Health Internal Medicine program in Buffalo, New York. I wanted to get back to where we were, to give back to the program that gave my career a place to start, and to provide stability to my fellow providers.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world class palliative care. And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers?

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF. Alex: Yeah.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. Thaddeus, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer

GeriPal

What about ambivalence on the part of the provider? He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Eric: So not from the patient perspective or family, but from the provider perspective? How should we think about that? Josh, welcome back to GeriPal.