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Physician workforce and compensation trends.
Shifts that change how and where you recruit.
Numbers from PhysEmp's monthly Salary Report.
October 11, 2026
Temple University Health System lost cardiologists and then did what the recruiting playbook says to do. It replaced them. By late summer, Temple says, it had filled 100% of the open positions. The fiscal year, which closed June 30, did not wait for the good news: cardiology procedures fell 12%,…
Read on Substack →October 4, 2026
More than 60% of hospitals now run AI tools that comb through labs, medications, orders and physician notes. Meanwhile, only about a quarter of rural administrators have ever formally estimated what it would cost them to lose a surgeon.
Read on Substack →September 27, 2026
Hospital spending on contract staff is almost back to its pre-pandemic level. The contracts themselves never came back.
Read on Substack →September 20, 2026
6.0% compensation growth. 3.4% productivity growth. In hospital-based roles, 7.2% against 1.6% — a gap wide enough to have its own weather system.
Read on Substack →September 13, 2026
6.0% compensation growth. 3.4% productivity growth. In hospital-based roles, 7.2% against 1.6% — a gap wide enough to have its own weather system.
Read on Substack →September 6, 2026
68.7% of family medicine residents stay in-state after training. 33.2% of colon and rectal surgery residents do. Nobody has figured out how to make the second number behave like the first.
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