Choosing a practiceis personal
Your specialty and the kind of practice you want to join matter alongside where you want to live. We get to know what you want from the next stage of your medical career, whether you’re considering a permanent move or planning time in locums.
Ways to work as a physician
Locums or a permanent move. Explore the kind of commitment you want next.
Time in another practice
Take on an assignment with a health system for weeks or months, planned with you before your first day. The specialty and setting give you a place to begin.
A permanent place in a practice
A permanent role with a health system, hospital or physician group, with us making the introduction and staying in the conversation until you start.
Look at the yearbeyond the assignment
Time between assignments matters alongside the work itself. Picture how the year could look.
Locums
Spend part of the year on assignments with health systems, leaving the time between them for the plans you want to make.
See locums rolesDirect placement
Join a hospital, health system or physician group in a permanent role, with your working year centered on one practice.
See permanent rolesWhere physicians practice
Your specialty can take a different shape in another setting. Explore the clinical work and patient care within our physician practice.
- Hospital medicine
A broad view of the patient across conditions and hospital services.Admissions arrive through the emergency department and clinics, often with several needs to address together. Block schedules and rounds give the work its rhythm, with new admissions and coordination continuing through the night.See hospital medicine roles - Emergency medicine
Decisions begin while the full clinical picture is still emerging.Patients arrive with needs ranging from minor injuries to major trauma. Triage and assessment shape the shift, with close coordination among the people working around the bedside.See emergency medicine roles - Anesthesiology
Close attention to physiology as a procedure unfolds.Patients range from routine surgical cases to people who are critically ill. Operating lists and procedural work shape the day, with each case bringing its own demands.See anesthesiology roles - Cardiology
A long view of heart disease alongside the detail of diagnosis and treatment.Patients may be newly diagnosed or returning for care. Clinic visits and hospital consults can sit alongside procedures in the cath lab, depending on the role.See cardiology roles - Surgery
Responsibility follows the patient beyond the operating room.The work includes planned procedures and emergency surgery. Clinic and operating days connect the decisions before a procedure with the care continuing through recovery.See surgery roles - Psychiatry
Understanding the person alongside the clinical presentation.Patients may be in acute crisis or ongoing treatment. Evaluations and medication management are part of continuing work with therapists and nurses.See psychiatry roles - Primary care
Relationships develop over years of seeing patients.The practice may care for several generations of a family. Clinic sessions bring new concerns alongside chronic disease management and coordination with specialist colleagues.See primary care roles - Palliative care and hospice
The patient’s priorities help give care its direction.Serious illness brings complex symptoms and decisions shared with families. Conversations about goals sit alongside symptom management, with time spent listening and helping people understand the choices ahead.See palliative care and hospice roles
What we hold to as a practice
Decisions about a medical career deserve a clinical perspective. Ours comes from the physicians who help guide our practice.
Guided by physicians
A physician advisor on our board and a full-time Chief Clinical Officer shape how our physician practice works. Your next move is discussed in the terms medicine uses, from privileges and call to the type of practice you want to join.
A practice that fits your medicine
We weigh the patient population, call and culture of each practice alongside the medicine you want to practice and the place you want to live. The aim is a role you would choose again.
Time to plan the next move
Credentialing and hospital privileges can take months, so early conversations matter in medicine. Starting before an opening gives your next move the time it needs.
Locums and permanent practice in one place
Our physician practice covers locums assignments and permanent roles with hospitals, health systems and physician groups. Many physicians use locums to know a setting before committing to it, and both paths remain open here.
The physician practice
The people you’ll talk to, and the clinicians who guide them.
Physicians, in their own words
Physicians reflect on their experiences of working with us.
“I have received unmatched quality from my recruiter and his rockstar team. Thank you for all that you do in the healthcare industry. Your unwavering commitment is demonstrated through your passion. Keep up the great work!”
“It’s been a pleasure working with Advantra Health. Very professional and great at listening about the job type that best suits me. The process to get credentialed is super easy and smooth as compare to any other locum company I have worked with. Highly recommended and thanks for getting me the jobs I enjoy doing. Thoroughly enjoy working with the Advantra Health team.”
“I am a Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist who does Locum Tenens work exclusively. I started working with the Advantra Health team when I transitioned to Atlanta, GA and it is truly my pleasure to provide this testimonial. During my time working with Advantra Health recruiters, I have found them to be very respectful, attentive to details, and proactive. I never had to worry where things stood with my assignments when working with Advantra Health. My recruiter always keeps me completely in the loop at all times.”
“They have many job assignments to offer, and they tailor their search for you based on your interests. Staff is always pleasurable and you feel like they’re working for you.”
“Advantra Health has put me in a position to have very good relationships with patients on an individual level. So it’s much more satisfying and rewarding and more importantly, the patients benefit.”
“This is a top-rate organization that truly understands how to streamline the process of credentialing and logistical implementation of a locums assignment.”
“I really enjoyed my time as a locum tenens radiologist in Nashua, New Hampshire. This charming city offered me countless opportunities and advantages; it is a well-run hospital with a staff that is just a pleasure and joy to work with.”
Stories from physicians
Perspectives on changes in how and where you practice medicine.
All physician stories
Taking a first locums assignment
Preparing to practice medicine in an unfamiliar setting.
Read the story
Adding telepsychiatry to a practice
What a week divided between clinic and remote consultations can involve.
Read the story
Moving from residency into practice
Choosing where your work after residency begins.
Read the storyQuestions physicians ask us
Have another question? We’d be glad to talk it through.
You cover a hospital or practice for a set period, from a few shifts to several months. The facility sets the schedule and patient load, and we talk through the dates, location and schedule with you before you commit.
Yes. Many physicians pick up locums shifts or blocks around a permanent role. Tell us which weeks are free and we’ll look for coverage that fits them.
Yes, in each state where you see patients. The Interstate Medical Licensure Compact speeds up licenses across participating states, and prescribing controlled substances needs a DEA registration in each state. We’ll start with the states where you’re already licensed.
We ask before your name goes to any facility, for every role.
Yes, both. Some facilities want attending experience for locums, so a first permanent role is often the steadier start. We talk through practice type, call, location and the contract terms your own attorney should review.