Job Search Sites for PM Physicians – Helpful Hints

www.aaphp.org is the only web page exclusively dedicated to the needs of PM and PH physicians.

We created this site and its review of postings from other journals and sites because searching other web sites and journals for jobs specifying PM or PH physicians is likely to be an exercise in frustration – few if any will be listed as such. To find jobs suitable for PM and PH physicians -- one must look under multiple categories – both physician, and non-physician.

www.wantedjobs.com is a master site that lists jobs from over 100 other sites. It also enables applicants to post jobs on almost 100 sites with one resume submission (mostly through Resume Rabbit).  This site includes jobs in the private sector and military, but does not seem to well cover other federal, state or local jobs. Many of the jobs listed are not on the AAPHP or other sites easily accessed by PM and PH physicians – and circumstances make it difficult or impossible for us to abstract these to www.aaphp.org because of commercial ownership issues. Another problem is that this site is just loaded with annoying banner and pop-up ads. On 1/13/03 I (Joel Nitzkin) navigated this site, as follows, and found the following. This is provided as a suggested way for other PM and PH physicians to use this site to locate job opportunities: In the job search page, I specified “Healthcare/Medical/Social Services.  The keywords were as follows. The numbers represent individual listings, many of which are duplicated – so the total number of jobs is less than the number of listings.

1.      Epidemiologist – 11 jobs listed,  -- mostly healthcare and industrial settings

2.      Medical Epidemiologist – 5 jobs listed

3.      Medical Director – 500 job listings

4.      Public Health Physician – none listed

5.      Public Health – none listed

6.      Research – 500 jobs listed, almost all private companies and healthcare, not academia or federal (from the limited number I looked at – 10 per page)

7.      Preventive Medicine – 91 jobs listed, almost all US military

The Emory site (http://cfusion.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/phec.cfm ) is of special interest because it includes the broadest array of jobs for persons with public health training and probably the best list of other employment links for persons with public health related training.

www.usajobs.com is probably the best-consolidated listing of federal, non-military, job opportunities.

www.jobspublichealth.com/topjobs.html is updated every two weeks and contains an extensive array of public health jobs, may international, some of which will be of interest to PHPM physicians.

Epidemiology Monitor is a subscription newsletter which lists about 200 epidemiology jobs at any point in time, about half of which will be of interest to PM and PH physicians. Issues related to commercial ownership of the data preclude our reproduction of these listings . PM and PH physicians considering epidemiologist job opportunities are urged to network with academic and public sector epidemiology programs, most of which are likely to have a subscription to this newsletter.

Updated 1/14/03