Welcome to the crazy time of year! Every year at this time VISTA Staffing Solutions sponsors a Holiday Health Drive to help keep our employees moving, eating as healthfully as possible, and managing their stress so they can provide great service to the physicians and healthcare organizations that rely on us. We award points for exercising, volunteering in the community, quitting smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, bringing a healthy treat to the office instead of cookies,
The following is one of the funniest email exchanges we have had with a physician working locum tenens with us.
Hi Melanie,
I have kind of an odd request. Do you remember when you sent me the recertification packet? Well it came with a bright green pen that had VISTA's logo on it. I wanted to let you know it was the best pen I've ever used. It fit just right in my hand
2007 was a big year for me, in many ways. Tossed in among the momentous and the mundane was my decision to train for the Wisconsin Ironman, which was in September. In retrospect, there couldn’t have been a more perfect way to stay focused on what it really takes to get what you want and need out of life. So I offer some 20/20 hindsight as you contemplate a small career transition, a professional 360, or
IVUmed, formerly International Volunteers in Urology, is a wonderful organization I am honored to support and serve and a member of the board. IVUmed sends medical teams around the world to teach local providers and provide care to patients with a variety of urological problems, including vesico vaginal fistula, hypospadias, and lymphatic filariasis. Our credo is, “Teach One, Reach Many.”
The IVUmed Traveling Resident Scholar Program gives residents the opportunity to experience urology in
It’s true, in the early days some people thought doctors who worked as locum tenens might be snake-oil salesmen. They questioned our ability to get and hold good jobs and refused to introduce us to their sisters. They said, “What? You’re Dr. Terry Cloth and you’re calling about local tennis?!”
Over the past 30 years I have had the great pleasure of watching the evolution of this unique way to do the work we love.
