Are you an internal medicine resident completing your training and not pursuing a fellowship? Or have you trained in a subspecialty and are now ready to practice? You should consider what type of practice you want to follow that perfectly suits your personal preferences as well as career goals. Multiple practicing options are available for a new doctor with certain advantages and disadvantages.
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The article below discusses the various medical practices that a doctor or physician can pursue.
Major Types of Medical Practice
A practitioner has many options in following a career in medicine with a set of benefits and drawbacks. A summary of these options is discussed below:
Solo Practice
Solo practice, as the name suggests—is a medical practice with no partners and without any employment affiliations with other organizations. It was quite a popular model in the past, but now this medical practice is becoming less popular. Still, it is strongly preferred by some internists.
Group Practices
Group practices are usually divided into two groups, i.e., single-specialty and multispecialty practices.
The unique characteristic of single-specialty practice is the presence of two or more than two physicians providing a particular type of care to patients (primary care of a particular subspecialty practice. On the other hand, a multispecialty group is defined as the practice which offers various kinds of medical specialty care within one organization.
Employed Physician Practices
At an increasing rate, doctors and physicians are being employed in one of several practice models available. Some hospitals purchase the existing solo or group practice facility or may directly hire the physician to work in their ambulatory clinics or inpatient facility. With employed physicians, health care corporations may own and run clinics.
Ending Notes
If you are a doctor or physician and looking for your career to start, you have many options to practice medicine. In the article above, we mentioned some of the most common practices in medicine that you can choose.
