Internal Medicine Physician Recruiters

What do we check before you see anyone?

Confirm active state medical licensure and verify ABIM certification status directly. We ask about certification timing, any pending credential items, and whether the physician can meet your internal credentialing process. Review chronic disease and Medicare panel experience. Clarify the outpatient versus hospitalist split.

• We ask for examples of visits involving diabetes, heart failure, COPD, chronic kidney disease, or multiple medications, including what the physician handled personally and when they involved another clinician.
• We ask how much recent work involved scheduled office visits, longitudinal panels, discharge follow-up, inpatient rounding, or cross-coverage. This shows whether a move to clinic is a deliberate choice.
• Discuss inbox ownership in practical terms. We ask who reviewed results, renewed medications, answered portal messages, and routed forms. A physician accustomed to a large support team may need a different setup than one who managed much of that work directly.
• Examine work with nurses, medical assistants, pharmacists, and care managers. We ask how the physician assigned follow-up after an abnormal result, a missed preventive service, or a patient who could not obtain a medication.
• Ask what the candidate wants to change and what they want to keep. A physician may leave hospital medicine for continuity, a Medicare-focused group for a different panel, or a concierge practice for broader insurance-based care. The reason should match your actual practice.

Which mistakes stall the search?

A common mistake is hiring a respected hospitalist without asking about recent outpatient panel ownership, preventive care, refill work, and long-term follow-up. Another is describing only visit volume while leaving out inbox routing, nursing coverage, care management, referral access, and after-hours expectations.