TEXAS DOCTORS GROUP: A Physician search firm providing practice opportunities in Texas

• Need and Opportunity for Additional Physicians. According to recent studies, the practicing primary care physicians-to-population ratio in Texas was 68 physicians per population of 100,000. In small cities and town, this ratio is even worse. Compare this to New York state’s ratio of 112 primary care physicians per population of 100,000! (source). Newspaper articles and experts have recognized there is a shortage of primary care physicians and such shortage will continue well beyond the millennium. Yet Texas is increasingly an urban state, and except for far West and South Texas, it is hard to get far from a major city. A look at the map reveals over two dozen cities with over 100,000 population. Numerous smaller cities also are able to provide the best of facilities with the support systems you need. The Texas Department of Health and Human Service designated about 130 Texas counties as medically underserved areas.


• Licensing Requirements. Texas has adopted USMLE as the state licensing exam and grants reciprocity to all other states in the USA on the basis of FLEX, National Boards, or the USMLE. Foreign medical graduates, other than Canadian graduates, must pass FLEX, NBME, or USMLE and complete three years of graduate medical training (in Canada or USA) in one specialty to obtain a Texas Medical License. If one has not been examined in 10 years, one must pass SPEX or become certified or re-certified to obtain a license.


• Professional Liability Insurance. Malpractice premiums have risen in Texas as elsewhere. But, except for cities like Houston and Dallas, they compare quite favorably with the rest of the country. Premiums in smaller cities run much less.


• If you want to…
- Establish a solo practice and be paid a guaranteed salary of $200,000 or more per year.
- Associate with and join other physicians in a group practice or partnership and be paid a salary plus a percentage of your billings.
- Relocate to areas where there is a real need for additional physicians, where other physicians will give you referrals and most importantly where there is no professional animosity towards new physicians.


• Then look at what Texas has to offer…
  Malpractice premiums have risen in Texas as elsewhere. But, except for cities like Houston and Dallas, they compare quite favorably with the rest of the country. Premiums in smaller cities run much less.

- The Climate. Texas climate is as varied as the geography with one predominant characteristic – sunshine. Texas is sunny from the Gulf Coast to the Oklahoma border, from the east Texas pines forests to the mountains near El Paso, with usually just enough winter over most of the state to produce a nice change of seasons without the bother of protracted ice, snow and freezing weather.

- The Economy. Since so many high tech industries have relocated to the Lone Star State, Texas continues to have excellent growth prospects in industries that do not rely on the oil and gas industry. Unemployment has remained low; economic growth continues.

Economists recently estimated Texas would be the largest state of the U.S. by year 2020, due to the warm, sunny climate, favorable business atmosphere, low cost of living, and one of the few states without a corporate income tax. Yet with all the prosperity, Texas has little smog or pollution.