A facility in Kentucky needs locum tenens coverage for diagnostic reads plus light procedures. You won't take call or work holidays.
About the Assignment
Shifts: You'll work weekday day shifts, with your weekends off.
Procedures: Along with diagnostic reads, you'll do paracenteses, thoracenteses, lumbar punctures, drainages, and fine-needle biopsies of sites such as the thyroid, lymph nodes, or breast. A liver or renal biopsy may also come up.
Requirements: You'll need a Kentucky license, or active licensure through the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC).
Location and Lifestyle
Kentucky runs from the Appalachian mountains in the east through the rolling Bluegrass to big reservoirs in the west. Since your weekends are free, you can fish one of the state's lakes or trout streams.
About Interim Physicians
Ken Teufel, MD, founded the company that became Interim Physicians in 1979, a year after selling a solo family practice in small-town Texas to cover for physicians who couldn't get away. Dr. Teufel served as medical director for 42 years and was one of the founding fathers of locum tenens. The standards Dr. Teufel set still decide which physicians Interim presents to a facility.
Interim staff members average 14 years with the company, so the recruiter who places a physician is the same one who calls about the next assignment. Clinicians and facility clients have rated Interim 9 or 10 out of 10 often enough to earn ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Diamond award.