Dr. Khadija Chaudrey

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When Dr. Khadija Chaudrey moved to Brooklyn from Lahore, Pakistan, she had already completed medical school, landed a residency, and secured a visa to move halfway around the world. However, as a young immigrant physician, there were challenges ahead that her medical training had not prepared her for. “When I first started my residency, I … Read more

How to Get a Medical License in Utah

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In the last decade, you’ve converted your passion for helping others into one of the most respectable career paths in the world.

So far, you’ve:

  • Completed a pre-med undergraduate program
  • Survived four grueling years of medical school
  • Proven your skills in a two-year progressive residency program
  • Put your USMLE or COMLEX exams in the rearview

Now, there’s only one barrier between you and a Utah medical license:

The application.

Plus a few fees, deadlines, and documents to tie up a couple of loose ends.

A physician’s license in Utah comes with a hefty price tag — $670 on the “low end.”

However, if you follow this guide and take note of our insider tips, you could have your license to practice medicine in as little as two weeks!

Now, are you ready to start the next chapter in your life and career?

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Compensation: Comparing the Top Reports of 2020

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As we approach the end of the year, millions of healthcare professionals are reflecting on their financial year. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted virtually every aspect of social and economic life in the United States. Therefore, it is an especially important time to think about how best to preserve your financial health moving forward. There … Read more

10 Best States to Practice Medicine

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Choosing to pursue a career in medicine was the easy part.

Deciding where you want to transplant your practice — and possibly your entire family — is a much heavier decision.

And to make matters even more complicated:

For physicians, no two states are the same.

Some states shine bright with an average physician salary of over $300,000.

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Another holds the #1 slot for the best quality of life.

And a few post a concerning 51% physician burnout rate.

So, where are the best states to practice medicine? And what makes them worth picking up your entire life and crossing state borders?

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Preparing For Your Job Search After Residency

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Life as a medical resident is full of ups and downs. On the positive side, you’re reaching the end of your schooling and training, and you’re almost ready to find that first full-time job as a practicing physician. On the negative side, you’re reaching the end of your schooling and training — and finding a … Read more

Physician Compensation Report 2020

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Regardless of your specialty or what city you work in, most physicians are curious about how their salary stacks up against the competition. Moreover, whether you’re thinking about practicing in a new state or wondering if your signing bonus is what it should be. Know the facts to protect yourself and your earnings.

Let’s answer some questions:

  • Which physicians make the most money?
  • Moving a few states away to increase your salary?
  • How your specialty compares against the salaries of physicians in other areas of medicine?

We wanted to know:

  • How much physicians are really making
  • Which specialties are in the greatest demand
  • Which regions of the country are hiring the most
  • Where physicians are being offered the biggest bonuses

Spending hours pouring through hundreds of pages in pricey compensation reports is usually the only way to find this information — but we did the legwork for you.

Therefore, we have created our second annual physician compensation report to help.

In this report, we detail:

  • How physicians in different medical specialties and regions of the United States are being paid for their work
  • The gender wage gap
  • How much physicians are earning in bonuses and incentives
  • Which specialties are in the greatest demand

In addition, we’ve compiled data from nearly a dozen different sources to offer you:

The Free Physicians Thrive 2021 Physicians’ Compensation Report

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What a Physician Should Do If They Just Started a Job and Got Another Offer

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It is common practice for physicians, regardless of their specialty, to sign a physician employment contract. Hospitals, healthcare groups, and private practices alike put contracts in place to protect both the employer and the physician.

In many cases, signing a physician employment contract is a cause for celebration and congratulations. It usually means that you’re about to start a new position that you’re excited about.

But what happens if you sign a contract and, in your first week, realize the job is not a good fit for you?

What do you do if you sign a contract then get a better job offer that you’d rather take?

Physician contracts are binding legal agreements — but there are some ways out of them.

The question becomes, is that contract worth breaking? What will be the ramifications for doing so?

Today we’ll guide you through the process of what to think about and how to decide whether you should get out of your current contract.

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What Is Sullivan Cotter? What Physicians Need to Know

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Interestingly, the market for physicians is an ever-fluctuating scale. Healthcare organizations want to keep costs low while maintaining physician productivity and fair compensation.

To find benchmark numbers that ensure a successful healthcare business requires a lot of data.

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The development of independent consulting firms met the need for this data. They took the initiative to create a document that gave these healthcare organizations the information they needed.

In order to be accurate in their statistical data, these sources had to have a significant number of participants to be reliable. Each of these consulting firms survey thousands of physicians from a variety of specialties in order to make their survey data accurate.

Sullivan Cotter and Associates is one of the leading and most influential consulting firms in that industry.

This article will give an in-depth explanation of the role they play in the determination of your potential salary. And how they go about accomplishing that.

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Understanding Your Resident Doctor Employment Agreement

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While physicians work in all sorts of different facilities and specialties, there’s one thing that all physician jobs have in common: they always require contracts.

Unlike other professionals in other industries, physicians work under strict guidelines, and contracts are in place to protect doctors as well as the hospitals or healthcare groups they work for.

As a resident, you’ll get your first taste of what a physician’s employment contract looks like when it’s time to sign your resident doctor’s employment agreement.

Resident employment agreements are extremely important, and you need to understand what they entail and why they include the information they do. Here’s what you need to know to understand your resident doctor employment agreement.

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