Even though most sectors in America are showing new job growth, the healthcare sector is still showing signs of high job growth. Recently Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a division of AMN Healthcare Services Inc., conducted a survey to find out the average job offers received by new physicians.

In the survey it was found that new physicians received at least 50 job offers during their training period. Merritt Hawkins & Associates also found that more than 47 percent physicians received at least 100 job offers during their training period.

In the survey, more than 300 physicians who were in their final year of training were contacted by recruiters either by email, telephone or by regular mail.

James Merritt, founder of Merritt Hawkins, said in an interview that even in new doctors are getting many job offers even in stagnant economy. He added that the main problem was that there weren’t enough physicians to fill the available positions.

However, even though the job market is favourable for people who are looking for jobs in the medical field, not all physicians are happy about the jobs they have. In the survey, it was also found that 28 percent of practising doctors wanted to change their profession if they were given a chance to study again.

Another fact that survey revealed that only 4 percent of the doctors wanted to work in places that had a population of less than 25,000 people. This means that rural areas are likely to have less number of doctors when compared to urban areas.

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