What is Locum Tenens?

A career choice

Locum tenens (temporary physician job opportunities) is an excellent alternative at any phase in your career. You can achieve your goals while earning an income that is often better than a permanent physician job. Physicians may work locums for various reasons including:

• Broadening their skill set by practicing in a variety of settings
• Providing healthcare to people in underserved areas
• Seeing the country while earning a competitive income

A solution for physician shortages

Locum tenens has become more popular due to the extreme need in the medical industry. Nephrology, Internal Medicine and many other specialties are experiencing shortages of qualified physicians. Your skills are needed at many facilities to help maintain a high level of patient care.

Physician shortages can be attributed to a variety of causes:

• Growing practices
• Increase in patient volume
• Coverage for group members who are semi-retired or want to take extended leave
• Vacation
• Illness
• Maternity
• Other types of leave

Physician coverage can also be affected by factors such as natural disasters or epidemic illnesses. In these cases, facilities are overwhelmed by an increased patient load.

Locum tenens physicians can provide much needed relief to overworked and overwhelmed staff whenever or wherever coverage shortages occur.

A way to balance work and life

As a physician working locum tenens, you have extraordinary experiences at your fingertips. Choose where you want to go, when you want to work, and the facilities in which you want to work.

Grow your skills while traveling and getting the most out of life. Foundation will get you on your way with our high level of personal services. With Foundation you'll never feel alone on the road.

We make sure our locum tenens physicians are comfortable with free housing, paid malpractice, licensing, and a great income. If our locum tenens physicians ever have questions, need help, or just want to talk, their personal agent is only a phone call away.