Pulmonary & Critical Care Physician Recruiters

What do we check before you see anyone?

ABIM status: We screen for current American Board of Internal Medicine certification in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. We also confirm state licensure status or the physician’s path to licensure where your role requires it. Your medical staff completes its own credentialing and privilege review.

• Bronchoscopy record: We ask which bronchoscopies the physician performed recently, whether they interpreted findings independently, and what cases they referred elsewhere. For EBUS, we ask about sampling approach, supervision history, and recent case exposure rather than assuming fellowship training reflects current practice.
• ICU ownership: We clarify experience in closed, open, and hybrid ICUs. Candidates should explain who made admission decisions, how they worked with hospitalists and surgeons, and what changed when a patient worsened after daytime rounds.
• Night and tele-ICU work: We ask about in-house nights, home call, shift schedules, and tele-ICU contact. A physician who has only taken backup call may not want repeated overnight admissions or remote monitoring duties.
• Documentation and handoffs: We discuss daily ICU notes, procedure documentation, coding support, discharge coordination, and sign-out methods. Ask how the physician handled unfinished consults, pending cultures, and a change in the attending team.
• Schedule fit: We review clinic sessions, ICU blocks, weekend rotation, holiday call, and time assigned to procedures. This prevents an offer based on an assumed schedule that differs from the schedule your group can actually support.

Which mistakes stall the search?

A common mistake is listing “critical care” without stating whether the physician admits, rounds, covers nights, or serves as a consultant to another attending. Another is treating EBUS exposure during training as proof of recent independent procedure work and available privileges.