An educational program for training physicians in personnel recruitment

Practice management curriculum must evolve to more thoroughly address the areas of personnel recruitment. A recent report by the Medical Group Management Association indicated that nearly half of a family practitioner's practice overhead goes for personnel. This paper presents a recruitment curriculum designed as a joint venture between a family practice residency program and a junior college medical assistant program. The outcome of this joint venture was unanimous agreement among the participants that the curriculum should be continued in both programs.