Southeast Physician Recruiters Association is committed to bringing high quality, concise, and relevant content to its membership.  If you would like to propose a topic and presentation for this years educational conference, please utilize the form below.  Please note that SEPRA does not pay for speaker content or travel from outside vendors or sponsors.  Only members and those corporate sponsors that are supporting the SEPRA Education Conference via sponsorship will be considered for speaking.

The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2022
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SEPRA Conference sessions are designed to provide strategies, practical tools and education for in house physician recruitment, retention & on-boarding professionals.

Most sessions are 60 minutes in length. Sessions should incorporate multiple learning tools which may include Power Point, audio/video, and interactive audience exercises.

Some suggested topics, based on feedback from past attendees include:

Legal Issues Around Contracting with Physicians & Advanced Practice Providers
 Legal updates in healthcare
 Vendor contracting & management
 Locum & Search firm agreements
 Contract negotiation with physicians- navigating Stark
Provider Engagement
 Retention
 On-boarding
 Leadership Development
Recruit, Screen, & Source for the Right Candidate
 Rural Recruitment strategies
 Academic recruiting
 Primary Care
 Finding your organization’s next healthcare leader
Developing & Managing a Provider Recruitment Department
 Budgeting
 Medical Staff Development Planning
 Staffing ratios
 Leading through conflict
Compensation & Benefits for Physicians & Advanced Practice Providers  
 Work Force Planning
 Structuring a reasonable & competitive incentive plan
 Fringe benefits for the employed physician


Review Process

The SEPRA conference committee will review presentation proposals. The committee will ask the question, "How can SEPRA members use this information when they return to their jobs after the conference?" The committee will be using the following criteria:
 Practical application
 Clearly defined learning objectives
 Innovation
 Relevance
 Overall quality and focus
 Expertise of Presenter(s)
 Lack of commercial bias