Medical Practice Staffing Advice

Things can get a little crazy in a medical practice so it's important to maintain peace, harmony and motivation in your staff. Here are a few ways you can nurture your medical practice employees and help them achieve peak performance levels.

How many medical staff employees should you hire? It depends. We take a look at medical practice staffing levels and offer a few best practices for determining how big your medical staff roster should be.

Given everything you've invested in training your medical staff, it would be a shame to let some of them go simply because the economy is difficult right now. Medical staff layoffs should be a tactic of last resort. Here are some excellent alternatives to firing medical practice employees.

There's no doubt about it. Hiring medical practice staff is different than hiring employees for a non-medical business. If you don't understand the nuances, your patients -- and your practice -- will suffer.

Hiring medical office staff involves filling a handful of positions that aren't part of a typical business environment. But which positions are mandatory and which ones are optional? We take a look at some of the most important positions in a doctor's office.