EP 05: How to find a medical job with disruptive technology using Nomad Health

EP05: How to find a medical job with disruptive technology using Nomad Health

by Docofalltradez | Alexi Nazem

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• 5 Mistakes in searching for a job

EP05:  How to find a medical job with disruptive technology using Nomad Health

Searching for a job will be the second most difficult thing we deal with second only to studying and passing our medical boards.  One of the reasons has to do with the antiquated system that requires 3rd parties and massive redundant paperwork for credentialing, onboarding and verifying. 

This is busy work and having spent nearly a decade in medical school and residency the last thing we need is more busy work.   

Nomad health is trying to change and disrupt the system by streamlining this process with the use of cleaver yet simple technology.   

To Err is human and we are no exception.  Dr. Nazem and I discuss the top mistakes physicians make when searching for a job from an industry insider. 

Also, we touch on the idea that Medicine is ultimately a business:

The medicine is a business and equipping doctors and nurses and other clinicians around the frontline is a smart thing to do because then they can actually lead lead to changes that need to be made instead of people who are non-clinical and don’t really understand the nuances of medicine

You don’t need to have an MBA but taking the time to gain business acumen will pay off in dividends in not only in your career but in your entire life.  

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Docofalltradez: Welcome to the physician negotiator podcast where no decision is left to chance with your host Doc of all trades.

Docofalltradez: Today I would like to introduce Dr. Alexi Nassim. He is the co-founder and CEO of nomad health. Well many health care startups have non-clinical founders Dr. nauseum continues to practice internal medicine at Will Cornell Medical College while building his business. He graduated from Yale Medical School and carries an MBA from Harvard. He feels passionate about fixing the broken health care system and solving the upcoming physician shortage by directly connecting major stakeholders in the delivery of health care namely the employers and medical professionals. His company nomad health accomplishes this by creating an online marketplace for physicians and nurses and skipping the middleman Alexi welcome to the show.

Alexi: Thank you so much it's great to be on.

Docofalltradez: Excellent. Hey you know Alexi you have an amazing background. I did a little bit of stalking on you. Hope you don't mind. No. I read an article you had written on Kevin M.D. about immigrants making America great. Yeah. And you have quite a legacy in your background your granddad was an anesthesiologist and your dad was a Buckeye graduated from Ohio State which practically makes us related since I'm a Buckeye Anesthesiologist.

Alexi: Oh wow okay. Well nice to meet you brother.

Docofalltradez: Yeah likewise. And your entire family is filled with medical physicians and pioneers. It's incredible.

Alexi: Yes and I'm very lucky to have grown up in that environment.

Docofalltradez: And do you feel like that is kind of played a role in your entrepreneurial spirit.

Alexi: Oh most absolutely. I had actually interestingly both entrepreneurs in my family and physicians so I guess one could say that I was predestined to go down the path that I'm going down. I grew up in a household where most of my extended family were in some way shape or form involved in the medical profession. And so that originally served as an inspiration for me and as I have actually entered and practiced in the profession. Having all of those family members who are actually colleagues is now served as a support and a push and really sort of like a great set of consultants for me. And then on the entrepreneurial side especially through my dad I was exposed at a very young age to the concept of creating something from nothing making companies that use technology to solve real world problems. And so that brew at home really set me as I said on this pathway and so for sure I'm indebted to my family for what I'm doing today.

Docofalltradez: So lucky and you know couldn't come at a better time. Medicine right now is just struggling. I just read an article yesterday on The Wall Street Journal about how health care in general is not now the number one employer of all people living in the United States. And to say that it's not in the best shape is an understatement. And I'd like what you're really doing a nomad health in and trying to help solve those problems. So if you wouldn't mind can you share a little bit of a little bit with us about how nomad health works.

Alexi: Sure. So Nomad the problem that we are confronting head on is the challenge with providing enough staff clinical staff to patients in American hospitals clinics and other venues of care. I'm sure you've heard that there are huge shortages of doctors nurses advanced practice providers and many others. And solving that problem is going to be critical to the future functioning of the health care system. And so what Nomad is trying to do is to introduce technology solutions to provide more efficient more effective health care staffing myself as a doctor and some of my co-founders also doctors really felt the pain of this problem trying to get recruited into a job or or even just looking for a job yourself is a very inefficient very frustrating process that involves third parties that involves lots of paper and fax machines and phone calls and it's just not a very modern process and in a world where we really need to have the best clinicians at the bedside it's crazy that we're spending so much time energy and money on getting patients the doctors and nurses to the bedside.

Alexi: And so the problem that we're trying to solve is actually sort of shortening the distance and the time between the clinician and the bedside and that's what we do know that.

Docofalltradez: And so with so how is it different from a traditional recruitment company then yeah.

Alexi: So a traditional recruiter is a third party. So there is let's say a hospital and a doctor that want to work with each other well traditionally haven't you. In order for them to find each other and connect they've got to go through a staffing recruiter what Nomad does is eliminate those staffing recruiters and using technology replaces all the functions that those recruiters provide and allows the doctor in the hospital to connect directly and consummate that relationship directly using technology. So instead of having to interview on the phone with a broker and then with a friend with the hospital and the medical director and all that kind of stuff instead of having to mail in paper forms instead of having to sort of look for credentials all over the place we've centralized all of those processes online in a very easy to use technology based platform. So it had that same ease of use to something like air PNB or kayak where you do very high cost complex transactions very easily very quickly online without the intervention of a third party. We're trying to bring that same level of convenience to staffing. And so basically we're cutting out the middleman and allowing the two parties that are interested in working with each other to do that without any outside assistance.

Docofalltradez: And that is a fascinating concept because if if you know the modern physician orders looking for a job today and if they have multiple recruiters they may have to go through multiple processes multiple credentialing especially if you're a traveling provider. And so each time you go through the process you have to replicate that paperwork over and over and over again. So is no nomad then creating a database where you would just have to submit it once.

Alexi: Exactly. That this company was born out of that very frustration. I I tried to do a locum tenant's job which is that kind of traveling Doctor job that you talked about. And it took me 10 months