Winner Announced! | TCEP Annual Meeting, Galveston, TX - April 10-13, 2014

The TCEP 2014 Annual Meeting was held on April 10-13, 2014, and saw great attendance from medical students, emergency medicine residents, and practicing emergency medicine physicians from all across the state.

Lori Carlyle and Chase Gallatin, of EMrecruits, were in attendance and enjoyed the opportunity to interact with all the attendees that stopped by the booth.  Since we are based out of Dallas, Texas, it is only appropriate that EMrecruits is partnered with a large number of emergency medicine groups across the state.  We have partners in every major city - Austin, Houston, and Dallas - as well as, markets covering every other region of the state.  

Optimizing Emergency Department Scheduling in Real-Time

The Need

Emergency Departments are faced with many challenges, not the least of which are overcrowding and understaffing.  For ED medical directors, the problem of emergency department scheduling is not only having enough staff scheduled, but having the right staff at the right time to treat the right patients.  Patient arrivals can be highly variable, with sudden fluctuations in volume from hour to hour, different types of patients arriving during different times of day, vastly different patterns by day of week, and even seasonal changes associated with flu, school calendars, and local demographics.  Traditionally, coverage schedules are planned based on volumes of patients, averaged over large periods of times, with little consideration to this variability – and often simply by gut hunch.   This can lead to over coverage during some hours of the day, representing substantial financial loss, and can lead to under coverage at other times, leading to long times, high walk-out rates, and risks to patients.

In our role as a Physician Support Resource, we set out to address this problem, specifically as it pertains to Physician and APP staffing for our client physician practices.  We sought to answer the question for our clients –

“How do we optimize provider schedules in an objective and systematic approach that reflects the realities of the Emergency Department?”

Winner Announced! | SEMPA 360, New Orleans, LA – March 23-27, 2014

We were very happy to see a great turnout this year at SEMPA 360.  Bobby Anson and Sean Larkin, of EMrecruits, returned to the office very excited to have had so many indepth conversations about our current openings for physician assistants within our groups across the country.

Not only was the conference a wonderful academic and exhibiting opportunity, but it was also a chance to be surrounded by the rich culture of New Orleans!  We hope you were able to enjoy some of the same great cultural and culinary experiences our recruiting team enjoyed while there...live music on Bourbon Street and fresh, in-season crawfish just to name a few!

Another great aspect of exhibiting is that we get to give some pretty awesome stuff away.  We hope you are all enjoying your EMrecruits aluminum water bottles and pens!  The real prize though is the GoPro HERO3 Action Camera.  We are happy to annouce that the winner is...

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SEMPA 360, New Orleans, LA – March 23-27, 2014

Each year hundreds of physician assistants gather together for a comprehensive EMPA education program - the SEMPA 360 conference.  Over the course of five days, physician assistants will have the opportunity to take part in upwards of 45 different courses designed to provide essential clinical content and vital risk-management concepts.