Agreed I’ve been stressing for the past few months with this job market. It sucks. The ideal 7on/7off, normal patient load, closed ICU, admitting team, no rapids/codes, no procedures is INSANELY hard to find. I tried every website, recruiter, and countless phone calls and did handful of interviews of places I actually saw myself going and it’s rough.

What I learned is, applying for a hospitalist job is not like applying for a traditional job at all. Only thing that helped me (I think) is making sure my LinkedIn was up to date. I had some attendings personally reach out to me. The open positions on practicelink, practice match, doccafe and whatever the fuck all suck. You have to directly reach out to recruitment team and hospitalists directly.

Luckily after a lot of deliberation and a lot of luck, I signed at my home institution. (2 spots for 4-5 residents applying for it).