Physician career resources

Plain-language help for the physician job search.

No sales pitch, no login wall. Short, practical write-ups on the parts of a physician job search that are usually explained badly — contracts, compensation, and timing.

• Reading a first attending contract

  What restrictive covenants, tail coverage, and productivity bonuses actually mean before you sign.

• Making sense of RVU-based pay

  Why two offers with similar base salaries can pay very differently once you account for the wRVU formula.

• Where compensation numbers actually come from

  Survey data, recruiter estimates, and job-board averages don't always mean the same thing — how to tell them apart.

• Timing a residency-to-attending job search

  A rough month-by-month sense of when to start looking, by specialty and program length.