Many thanks to Christopher Loo, MD, PhD, host of the Financial Freedom for Physicians podcast (and entrepreneur) for inviting me to his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/40-financial-freedom-through-locums-work-dr-andrew/id1568423486?i=1000551729200 We had a great chat about locum tenens-the benefits and challenges for physicians at every stage of their career. If you are interested in locums, this podcast episode is a great listen as we covered a lot of ground.

The Locum Life: A Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens became available on Audible.com in November 2020. I just learned that the 100th copy just sold! Hooray! Since I worked my first locum tenens job in 1982, locums has enhanced my career with four life-changing benefits. 1. After completing an internship in internal medicine in 1982, I still wasn’t sure about my direction in medicine. I took a “year off” to write a book and work in the emergency room. During those challengi

Many thanks to Amir Baluch, MD, for inviting me to lecture on locum tenens during this week's SideHustleMD. He's got a great lineup of speakers, and I am honored to be one of them. As a special gift to the audience (and to you, too, if you are reading this blog,) the ebook of "The Locum Life: A Physician's Guide to Locum Tenens" is available at a 50% discount. The discount is only available at this link-direct from the publisher. https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/andrew-n-wil

Everyone knows that modern professional networking includes a LinkedIn Profile. Creating an attractive, effective profile on LinkedIn is easy--if you know how to do it! To help physicians and others maximize the potential of LinkedIn, Heather Fork, a physician career strategist and host of the "Doctors Crossing" podcast, put together a comprehensive LinkedIn course consisting of 22 short video tutorials accompanied by pdf. "cheat sheet" summaries. I took the course over sever

Please join me for a fun-filled discussion with Robin Dickinson, MD, creator of “Dr. Robin’s School,” an online pre-medical school for children curious about human physiology. Dr. Dickinson is a board-certified family physician whose teaching career began in the third grade—when she was a third-grade student! Tasked with tutoring the worst math student in the class, she discovered that helping others learn was challenging, fun, and satisfying. Dr. Dickinson continued to indul

Leigh Page from Medscape interviewed me, Jimmy Turner, MD, (the Physician Philosopher), and Peter Moskowitz, MD, founder of the Center for Professional and Personal Renewal in Palo Alto, CA, and put together 5 career improvement tips. In the article, I share a little-known snippet of my personal journey, which in a very round-about way led to my current position as Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN, and host o

Nearly every state in the US requires physicians to document continuing medical education (CME) hours every year or two. While CME training can be fun and educational, it can also be burdensome and expensive. Many thanks to Chad Saley from CompHealth for giving me the opportunity to share my experience and recommendations on how to satisfy CME requirements with ease and at low or no cost. https://comphealth.com/resources/cme-locum-tenens/ #CME #continuingmedicaleducation #sta

If you are interested in locum tenens, a new resource is available at the Medscape Physician Business Academy. “Working as a Locum Tenens: A Career Path for You?” is available for free. This online course is appropriate for physicians or other medical professionals considering locum tenens as an addition to permanent employment or as a full-time career. A Medscape Academy Certificate may be obtained after successful completion. Co-written with medical writer Leigh Page, much

The Locum Life, A Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens, is now available in audiobook format, and you can listen to it for free. What's the catch? Just write an honest, thoughtful review for Amazon of at least two sentences in the next 10 days! Think you can do it? If you are interested, please contact me at my website or wilnercommunications@gmail.com. Only 5 free copies are available. If you want to listen to the audiobook, but don't want to write a review, The Locum Life, A P

Great news for my podcast, “The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner!” Thanks to your support, the program reached the required number of subscribers to qualify for an easy-to-remember YouTube URL address rather than its cryptic current one. Old URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdkI_RRoMm-_w8GRJJ35xpAhas New URL: https://www.youtube.com/c/andrewwilnerMDauthor Yay! But wait, why not make it even simpler and dispense with the “MDauthor “suffix? Simple answer, the URL htt

In this new article published by Comphealth, I discuss 5 locum tenens mistakes and how to avoid them. These tips will be particularly valuable for first-time locums docs. #locumtenens #locums #worklifebalance #burnout #firsttimelocums

Debra Wood, RN, recently interviewed me and another locums physician for an article published at Staffcare.com highlighting the long-term benefits of locum tenens assignments. These include honing clinical skills with different patient populations, avoiding burnout and achieving work/life balance, and income security. Check out the article here: https://www.staffcare.com/physician-blogs/long-term-benefits-of-short-term-physician-jobs/ #locums #locumtenens #worklifebalance #bu

If you are considering a nonclinical or nontraditional medical career, please join me and 30 other physician presenters at the upcoming online Physicians Helping Physicians 2020 Next Conference. This event is the second in a series of 3 virtual conferences that explores opportunities for physicians in nonclinical and nontraditional medical careers. Many of these options may be pursued either in conjunction with traditional employment or full-time such as medical writing, IT,

Michelle Mudge-Riley, MD, an expert in helping physicians transition to nonclinical careers and owner of PhysiciansHelpingPhysicians, has assembled a group of career experts for a virtual conference this July. Michelle held a similar conference last year, in person, which was very successful. This year, given the scourge of COVID-19, the conference will be virtual. John Jurica, MD, will lead off with an overview of nonclinical career options, followed by discussions on the pr

Locum tenens provides incredible flexibility regarding assignments and work hours...but can you make a living? Ryan Inman, a financial consultant and host of the Financial Residency podcast and I talked about my experiences working locum tenens as an independent contractor. Ryan was very curious how I used locum tenens to achieve work/life balance throughout my career. If you're interested in achieving work/life balance and financial independence with locum tenens, please lis

Heather Fork, MD, was kind enough to speak with me in a Medscape interview about conquering anxiety that physicians may have related to their performance in the workplace. Dr. Fork runs Doctor's Crossing, a counseling resource for physicians. For physicians who make life or death decisions daily, a certain amount of anxiety comes with the job. Dr. Fork helps physicians when their anxiety gets to be too much of a burden. Her thoughtful discussion on Medscape is interesting and