Doctors Living Their Best Lives as Locums
Source: CompHealth
As far as I can remember, I do not recall any one person telling me about locum tenens, but it was the sixth month of my second year of family practice residency training when I first heard about it. All of my colleagues were either contemplating staying in Connecticut (where I trained) or working for our local hospital. Personally, working for a hospital system or starting my own practice was neither attractive nor did either resonate with me at the time. In addition, having grown up in New Jersey, I was grateful to experience all four seasons, but I knew I could not continue to live in frigid winter areas anymore. Therefore, I did not know where to go to first. One of my professors, before starting her own practice in NYC, had done locums for about two years in eastern Pennsylvania. Until then, I had never heard of locum tenens and the possibilities of that type of job. At first I thought to myself, “Is this a real job?” She shared her experience with me and the conversation opened up my eyes.