Our practice will be adding an associate doctor of optometry this August. Finding the perfect fit for our office has taken nearly two years. Although the number of available new ODs has grown over the past five years, finding the right fit for your office still may require searching through multiple resources. Here are a list of possible resources to use to find your next associate.
Optometry’s Career Center- Schools and Colleges
- Placement services
- Consulting groups
- Industry sales reps – Visit with frame, contact lens, ophthalmic lens, and equipment sales representatives.
- State optometric associations
- Social Media
- Local community – find out if there are students from your community who are currently in optometry school and may have an interest in returning to their hometown. You can provide them with a great opportunity to be a part of your practice and they may in turn provide you with many of their friends and family from the community as new patients.
Taking the time and effort to find the right associate optometrist is worth it. Patients like and trust practices that have the same doctor year after year. This stability gives them confidence the practice is sound. In fact, those are the practices that are growing and thriving in today’s economy.
I need help enrolling in medicare to become a provider, Would you be able to help with that? Do yo have consulting fees? If not, do you have any recommendations for companies that process medicare enrollment for ODS?
Thanks so much
Adriana Wiseman
I appreciate your question and will follow up through the email you sent me so we can dig deeper into your other questions also.