{"id":3810,"date":"2024-07-11T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2024-07-11T19:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:05:53","slug":"kevinmd-the-role-of-locum-tenens-in-bridging-the-physician-shortage-gap-can-retiring-physicians-save-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/modio-press\/kevinmd-the-role-of-locum-tenens-in-bridging-the-physician-shortage-gap-can-retiring-physicians-save-the-day","title":{"rendered":"KevinMD &#8211; The role of locum tenens in bridging the physician shortage gap: Can retiring physicians save the day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As our healthcare system faces unprecedented challenges with an aging population and physician shortages, innovative solutions are crucial. Our founder, <a id=\"ember1067\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kirkwheath\/\">Kirk Heath, MD, FACS<\/a>, draws from his experience as a surgeon and locum tenens to offer a unique perspective. He proposes leveraging locum tenens positions as a practical approach to address the growing healthcare needs while providing flexibility for experienced physicians. Read our latest piece, featured on KevinMD, to discover how this strategy could help navigate the &#8216;silver tsunami&#8217; in healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our latest piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinmd.com\/2024\/07\/the-role-of-locum-tenens-in-bridging-the-physician-shortage-gap-can-retiring-physicians-save-the-day.html\">KevinMD<\/a> here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our healthcare system faces unprecedented challenges with an aging population and physician shortages, innovative solutions are crucial. Our founder, Kirk Heath, MD, FACS, draws from his experience as a surgeon and locum tenens to offer a unique perspective. He proposes leveraging locum tenens positions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/modio-press\/kevinmd-the-role-of-locum-tenens-in-bridging-the-physician-shortage-gap-can-retiring-physicians-save-the-day\" class=\"btn btn-theme-dark read-more-link\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modio-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}