Does your hospital use Amion? Did you know there’s a free Amion App? Download it from the App Store for your iPhone and the Google Play store for your Android smartphone.

Simplify your schedule.
Scheduling doesn’t have to be complicated. See when you’re on call, right from the homepage. If your shifts change, you’ll be quickly notified so you can stay on top of your week.

Customize your calendar view.
See your schedule for the week or month, and color code for easy scheduling. Add and remove schedules to customize your calendar.

Swap shifts with colleagues.
See which of your colleagues are on call and when. You can even swap shifts with them right from the app.

Easily see schedules for multiple hospitals.
If you subscribe to multiple Amion schedules, simply switch between them to see your different schedules.

Make a call or page a colleague.
See who’s currently on call and swiftly page them with the touch of a button. Learn more about the colleagues you’re working with by clicking on their profile, powered by Doximity. Ensure your profile is up to date, so colleagues can learn more about you.

Send HIPAA-secure texts.
Away from your computer? No problem. Communicate with your on-call team safely and securely in the Amion app. You can even snap a photo or send one you’ve already taken. Lock screen message notifications remain confidential and PHI-free, even when you’re away from your phone. Messages are encrypted server-to-server, and are never stored on the device.

Stay connected, even if you have no service or wifi.
No phone connection in the hospital basement? Not to worry. Your schedule is accessible offline in the Amion App, so you can access your schedule wherever you are.

You can download the Amion app from the App Store on your iPhone or from the Google Play store on your Android smartphone. Best of all, it’s free to download!

The importance of networking is often heavily stressed as a professional, no matter the industry. However, traditional networking can be time consuming -- and for the medical community, close to impossible. The unpredictability of on-call schedules and long hours leave little time for networking. Oftentimes, physicians find themselves turning to organized networking events or (uncomfortably forced) mixers.

Thanks to the advent of the internet, physicians can network with anyone, from anywhere. Remember your lab partner from medical school? According to her Doximity profile, you notice that she’s currently Surgeon in Chief at one of the largest heath systems in the United States -- and they’re hiring! Networking may not be so bad, after all.

“My connection with Doximity and the Fellows program has impacted my career and my life as a result. My connection with one of my fellow Fellows led directly to a new job opportunity near my hometown. Without Doximity this would not have been possible.”
-Lamont Hunter, PA-C, MPH

“After CME tracking, Doximity's next biggest impact has been on my networking abilities. Instead of looking through old emails, Googling, or friending people of Facebook, Doximity makes it easy to learn what my old classmates and co-residents are doing, where they are living, and who we know in common. With such a large portion of physicians represented, it is rare that I wonder about an old colleague that I cannot find via Doximity, and, like most docs, networking is key to my work.”
-Valory Wangler, MD

Look up your alma mater on Residency Navigator to easily find past classmates and see where they ended up and if you have any mutual connections.

Looking to move to San Francisco? It may be time to start leveraging those connections.

Click on each alum’s profile to learn more about their training background, past publications and mutual colleagues. Easily send them a message to initiate a conversation.

Your network is out there. What are you waiting for?

This past April, we were shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected passing of our colleague and friend, Jason Seifer. While Jason was a gifted software engineer at Doximity, he was much more than that. He served as a role model, teacher and mentor to thousands of aspiring programmers. Through a video series that he produced prior to Doximity, Jason’s deadpan humor and wry wit brought levity to what could have been a boring subject, and his passion for sustainable code was inspiring to everyone he worked with.

Jason was unparalleled in three unique areas: pristine code, themed photo shoots and groan-worthy puns. In spirit and celebration of Jason, we have set up a need-based scholarship through University of Central Florida, Jason’s alma mater.

The Jason Seifer “Updog” Memorial Scholarship

“Jason was a remarkable man. I've met only a handful of people who had his level of expertise, and another handful of people who made me laugh as often. Jason was the only one in both groups. Most veteran developers are jaded and cynical; Jason was lighthearted and fun every single day. Working with him, learning from his Treehouse videos, and being with him in any capacity was a pleasure.

Jason was unlike any other. He was the best of us. He will be missed.”
-Chris “Woody” Woodrich, Software Engineer

"Jason would've wanted to be remembered for his sense of humor, which can only be shadowed by his ability to teach. Professionally, he taught us software development, but personally and most importantly, he taught us to laugh at life. Nothing is more fitting than a scholarship fund to eternalize him."
-Bruno Miranda, VP of Engineering

“Jason was a true inspiration to myself and our company. He worked on an extensive array of projects and made them look easy. But above all, he was inspirational to work with. He had the patience to teach, the passion to see projects through, and the humor to get you through the roughest of days. We will forever cherish the time he spent working with us at Doximity. He was a real Ruby in the rough.”
-Jey Balachandran, VP, Architect

To contribute the Jason Seifer “Updog” Memorial Scholarship, please visit: https://www.ucffoundation.org/updog

Today we released our first annual Doximity Physician Compensation Report, the most comprehensive research undertaken to date on physician pay in the United States.

Physicians can access the complete salary map here

Here’s the overview of what we found:

Average Compensation for All Combined Specialties

Interestingly, rural and lower cost cities tended to have higher physician compensation than higher cost areas, such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago.

The top five metro areas in which physicians are paid the highest average annual salary are:

1. Charlotte, N.C. ($359,455)
2. Bridgeport, Conn. ($353,925)
3. Phoenix, Ariz. ($351,677)
4. Milwaukee, Wis. ($345,831)
5. Houston, Texas ($345,079).

The bottom five metro areas in which physicians are paid the lowest average annual salary are:

1. Durham, N.C. ($267,598)
2. Ann Arbor, Mich. ($272,398)
3. Baltimore, Md. ($281,005)
4. Charleston, S.C. ($285,933)
5. Washington, D.C. ($286,242).

Family Doctors / Primary Care Physicians

Primary care doctors represent the backbone of clinical care in the country, and location is a key determinant of their compensation.
The top five metro areas with the overall highest compensation for primary care providers includes:

1. Charlotte, N.C. ($285,109)
2. Bridgeport, Conn. ($279,138)
3. Minneapolis, Minn. ($272,610)
4. Indianapolis, Ind. ($270,468)
5. Phoenix, Ariz. ($268,869)

Gender Gap in Physician Compensation

Nationally, the “gender gap” difference is stark. U.S. women physicians on average earn 26.5 percent less, or in dollar terms, $91,284 less than their male counterparts. Moreover, there is no medical specialty identified in the study in which women earn more than men. As an example, female Neurosurgeons were found earn over $90,000 less on average per year. Also, there is no place in the United States – state or top 50 metropolitan areas – where women out-earn men.

The five largest gender wage gaps are found in:

1. Charlotte, N.C. (33 percent less or $125,035)
2. Durham, N.C. (31 percent less or $90,480)
3. Orlando, Fla. (30 percent less or $107,942)
4. Pittsburgh, Pa. (30 percent less or $100,956)
5. Bridgeport, Conn. (29 percent less or $110,582)

The specialties with the largest gender wage gap are:

1. Pediatric Rheumatology (21 less percent or $45,412)
2. Gastroenterology (21 percent less or $78,490)
3. Pediatric Endocrinology (20 percent less or $41,467)
4. Occupational Medicine (20 percent less or $53,921)
5. Vascular Surgery (20 percent less or $88,800)

For female physicians, the metro areas in which female physicians are paid the highest average annual salary are:

1. Minneapolis, Minn. ($290,747)
2. Phoenix, Ariz. ($290,536)
3. Milwaukee, Wis. ($287,950)
4. Indianapolis, Ind. ($281,987)
5. Dallas, Texas ($278,825).

• The metro areas in which female physicians are paid the lowest average annual salary are: Durham, N.C. ($205,635); Charleston, S.C. ($219,112); Ann Arbor, Mich. ($225,004); Baltimore, Md. ($226,048); and Washington, D.C. ($227,263).

Our study was drawn from self-reported compensation surveys of over 36,000 full-time, licensed U.S. physicians who practice at least 40 hours per week. The timeframe ranges from late 2014 to early 2017. Responses were mapped across metropolitan statistical areas, and the top 50 were ranked by the number of respondents in the data.

Today, we announced that 70% of U.S. physicians have joined the Doximity network. What have we learned from our community of 800,000 physician members? We've learned that connections count. And physicians can count on their connections. Using Doximity, here are some of the amazing ways doctors have worked together to serve their patients, more efficiently and more effectively than ever before.

J. Michael Hitt, MD: One of my patients was bitten by a Macaque monkey, which is infected with a virus that can produce a lethal encephalitis in humans. Worldwide, there are only a dozen or so experts on this zoonosis, but Doximity allowed me to quickly contact authors of key publications that present information critical to treating this disease. The patient did fine - so did the monkey. Doximity provided me with easy access to experts!

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Payal Kohli, MD, FACC: It was around 2:15 am and the UCSF Emergency room called me and asked me if I could look at at EKG right away. As the overnight on-call cardiology fellow, one of our responsibilities is to determine whether the cardiac catheterization laboratory needs to be activated for a particular type of myocardial infection, called a STEMI, in which "every minute counts". The ED physician asked me how he could get the EKG to me. Since the ED fax machine is notorious for taking over 10 minutes to transmit a fax, we were able to use Doximity (as we were both members) to securely transmit a fax within minutes. No violations, no delay! Indeed, that patient did need to go to the cath lab urgently. And, the next week, I was able to share the EKG with my colleagues as it was saved on my phone in my Doximity app.
I remember thinking how happy I was to be a part of Doximity and how those few minutes may have made a difference in that patient's outcome, which was excellent.

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Clasina Leslie Smith, MD MS, MA, DABMA: About 2 weeks ago in clinic, I had a patient who urgently needed a retinal specialist. Google searches for physicians tend to yield Yelp-equivalent sites rating doctors and giving very little information without a subscription: it's an inefficient way to search for colleagues. I simply hopped on Doximity in the room with her to see if I could find someone I knew personally. It streamlined the process of finding someone that I trusted because I knew him from medical school and who was located close to the patient's home. I was able to quickly call him through his listed phone number and explain the situation so that she could be seen the next day. The patient, my colleague, and me all benefited from being able to get her taken care of quickly, personally, and professionally.

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Anitha Rao, MD MA: We admitted a patient to the Neuro ICU who was seizing continuously for 1 hour. We were clueless on a Saturday, on how to contact the primary neurologist regarding prior seizure meds. Through Doximity we were able to communicate with her physician, and ultimately impact patient care and treatment.

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David W Hall II, MD: As a specialist, I work out of 5 different hospitals. Oftentimes, surgeries are delayed or cancelled because surgical clearance documents (i.e., labs, EKGs, Echocardiograms, Chest X-Rays, cardiology office notes) haven’t made it to the surgical pre-operative area in a timely and/or guaranteed manner. By encouraging my patients’ primary care doctors and my anesthesia colleagues to use Doximity, we’ve been able to communicate more effectively and avert unnecessary surgery cancellations, saving time and money for everyone involved, including patients.

As the nation’s attention has recently turned to immigration, a spotlight has fallen on U.S. doctors – many of whom were either born or trained overseas. While we’re not politicians, and will leave the debate on immigration to them, Harvard researchers recently used Doximity data to shed light on the value of foreign-born doctors to the U.S. medical system.

In this instance, our data science helped illuminate some important findings. As published in the prestigious journal BMJ, the Harvard team conducted a study that found U.S. patients treated by foreign doctors actually had lower mortality rates than patients cared for by doctors trained here in the United States. This unique observation led to headlines across the country, from the Wall Street Journal to Reuters, as well as WebMD.com.

Harvard researchers Yusuke Tsugawa, Anupam Jena, John Orav, and Ashish Jha analyzed Doximity’s extensive network of physicians, which includes nearly 70 percent of all doctors licensed to practice in the U.S., to conclude that foreign physicians meet and exceed very high standards. (Researchers also compared data from 100% Medicare Inpatient Files, 20% Medicare Carrier Files, and the American Hospital Association annual survey on hospital characteristics).

The lead author, Tsugawa, speculated that the various barriers foreign doctors must overcome to practice in the United States may lead us to attract only the most motivated, saying, “I think we are selecting the best and brightest from the world.”

Additionally, on the popular website FiveThirtyEight, four Harvard researchers, including study co-author Anupam Jena, further mined Doximity data to understand how doctors might be affected by a travel ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. Of the doctors evaluated, 8,243 were trained in those seven countries, or about 5 percent. They noted:

“Our research finds that foreign-trained doctors play an even larger role than their share of the physician workforce would suggest because of the areas and specialties in which they often practice: rural, underserved regions and specialties facing a large shortage of practitioners.”

Doximity is already the fastest growing and most popular network for doctors, and we’re proud of our contribution to leading edge research projects, such as the work produced by the Harvard team. As we grow, we look forward to developing our own research insights, in addition to continuing to support academic efforts, and are proud to play a foundational role in research that helps provide crucial context for a national conversation.

In the past year, some staggering facts on issues related to patient safety have come to light.

One of the most disappointing pieces of news in 2016 was the study by researchers at John Hopkins Medicine saying medical errors rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States. These medical errors are defined as anything from surgical complications that go unrecognized, to mix-ups with doses or types of medications that patients receive.

Based on an analysis of prior research, the study estimated that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from medical errors.

Most of these deaths are preventable, and there are factors surrounding medical mistakes that we can modify and improve to minimize the chance for medical errors.

We spoke to Kaustubh Dabhadkar, a Cardiology fellow at Brown University, about his experiences with patient safety.

“Every day, we see many instances where patient safety could be improved,” he began. “Unfortunately, most of them relate to provider communication.

Last week I cared for a young female who switched her care to me from a different healthcare system. She had surgery on her heart as a kid. Due to the nature of her job, she has lived in three states over last two years. Every time she switches a cardiologist, she has to make sure her records are sent over, and unfortunately this time, the records were not transmitted over. In the clinic, she complained of episodic shortness of breath and palpitations over the last month. The cardiologist who had treated her before could not be reached during the clinic visit. So I had to start her workup and treatment without knowing details of her heart surgery. Eventually, I received a 95-page fax three days after requesting her records. After digging through that, I found the four pages that I cared most about.

Very often, and this is the case more so with specialists, patients show up without any records. We are left to make our study and examinations without basic knowledge of the patient’s medical history.

Quite often this is urgent. We spend a lot of time in the emergency room, and when a patient comes in with a heart attack, we need to look at their prior records. A lot of hospitals don’t have their own catheterization labs, and when patients get transferred, all their records are pulled, and we are on the phone on the other side, faxing things, forwarding to hospitals, etc. This is an everyday thing, and some of those records don’t make it back to us soon enough. They’re faxed to someone in the office, who then tries to reach me, and I end up with no access to records.”

In moments of emergency, provider communication and technology success is vital. However, it is also critically important in non-emergency situations. Misinformation and lack of information, especially in regards to patient records, can start workflows that lead to endangering patient safety.

“It still baffles all physicians that in this day and age of connectivity, it is difficult to communicate efficiently with another healthcare system or physician,” Dabhadkar remarked.

“Despite the tremendous progress in the procedural field, the medical community is resistant to communication technology. As an example, most physicians still carry a pager and trust it more than a smartphone. Some of us still prefer paper charts to electronic health records. Part of the reason is - the technology is sometimes developed without considering physician workflow.”

In order to take steps toward improving miscommunication and other medical errors, some hospitals are working with organizations like the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.

“Hospitals that attain zero preventable deaths in areas like healthcare-associated infections plan for it for it by implementing processes like our Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS),” said Joe Kiani, Founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.

“80% of serious medical errors involve miscommunication during hand-off between clinicians. The implementation plan and solutions we note are key for accurate, complete, and effective handoff communication” said Kiani.

Medical errors are a leading cause of death in America, and both the catalyst and the solution seem to revolve around communication.

“After all,” Dabhadkar expresses, “we are all working towards a shared goal of patient safety.”

Doximity is proud to be supporting one of the strongest advocates of ending medical errors, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, whose mission is to achieve “zero preventable deaths by 2020.” Toward that goal, they are kicking off 2017 with the fifth annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit.

The Summit will bring together international leaders from hospitals, medical and information technology companies, the patient advocacy community, public policy makers and government officials to discuss solutions to the leading challenges that cause preventable patient death in hospitals. Their keynote speaker is President Bill Clinton. For the agenda, click here, and for a link to live steam, click here.

To learn more about the Patient Safety Movement, click here.

When it comes to looking for your first job out of training, the task might seem like a bigger job than residency itself. There are so many decisions to be made - where do you want to live and what kind of practice setting do you want? How do you put together a CV? Not to mention, where do you even start looking for jobs?

The truth is, the current job hunt process for residents is painfully antiquated. Whether it’s calling your target institutions or looking in the classifieds of a journal, finding a job as a physician is about as up-to-date as your pager. With this in mind, we came up with something better. So easy that some of our doctors on staff wish they could go back to residency... almost.

Career Match is an online job matching platform that connects you to top employers in locations of your choice. Once you’ve told us about the job you want, we’ll bring the interview offers to you. And if you’ve got any questions, you’ll be assigned to a personal career advocate who guides you from start to finish.

So how does Career Match work?

1. You tell us about your ideal job.
2. We match you with multiple opportunities.
3. You pick the job you like best.

Once you place, we’ll even give you $3000 to help you get settled into post-residency life. Let us do the job hunting for you, so you can get back to being a resident - what’s not to love about never ending rounds, night shifts and cafeteria food?

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As the new year approaches, we took a look back at 2016 to pick out the top 6 headaches that physicians faced throughout the year - as well as potential ways to address them.

1. “I need to call my patient, but I don’t want to give out my personal number by using my cell phone. And if I use * 67 to call my patient from a blocked number, they won’t pick up.”
   Our new, free app Doximity Dialer allows you to call patients from your cell phone, without using *67. They will see your office line in the Caller ID.

2. “I’m graduating residency and I want the tools to start my career off right.”
   With Career Match, you can gain insight into salary trends, alumni networks and contract negotiations. You'll also receive offers to interview, and access to a talent advocate to guide you through the process. If that wasn't enough, you'll also receive a $3,000 bonus as a thank you when you land your dream job through us.

3. “It’s impossible to filter through and keep up with medical news every day.”
   The Doximity newsfeed provides you with daily, curated medical news in one place, as well as weekly email digests tailored to your specialty. You can read it online, or for those clinicians on the go, you can also read it on your phone.

4. “I want to make sure I’m being compensated fairly, especially in comparison to other physicians in my area.”
   Our Career Navigator tool gives Doximity members free access to salary data from tens of thousands of physicians, PAs, nurse practitioners, medical groups, hospitals and healthcare organizations worldwide.

5. “My license renewal is coming up and I need CME credits but I don't have time for a conference”
   On Doximity, you can earn Category 1 CME at no cost - simply by reading CME-eligible articles for free.

6. “I can’t believe it is the end of 2016 and I’m still regularly using a fax machine.”
   With Doximity’s free fax and digital signature on our mobile app, you can go digital even if the rest of healthcare is relying on 1980’s technology.

We look forward to seeing what new features and apps we can create for clinicians to help meet their needs in 2017. Have a great end to your 2016, and we will see you in the new year!

A new study reveals that 32,000 less patients would die per year if treated by female physicians compared to male physicians. The study, which linked 4 years of Medicare data for 1.5 million patients aged 65 and older to professional and demographic physician data from the online professional network Doximity, shows a significant decrease in patient readmissions and patient deaths after 30 days for those treated by female internists.

“We know from prior work that female physicians earn about 80 cents on the dollar compared to male physicians, but whether outcomes of patients treated by female physicians differ has never been studied,” study co-author Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jena has used Doximity’s data to study how physician characteristics influence patient outcomes and gender differences in promotion in academic medicine.

These new findings show that patients treated by female physicians experienced almost a half a percentage point decrease in mortality rate within a month of hospitalization, as well as a comparable drop in the chance that patient would return to the hospital. While these gains could be considered unsubstantial, these figures are akin to successful improvements in large scale national quality movements that have occurred over the last decade.

Researchers point out that primary care ‘female physicians are more likely to practice evidence-based medicine, perform as well or better on standardized examinations, and provide more patient-centered care.’ But, it is unclear if these characteristics led to the better patient outcomes witnessed in the study.

The authors acknowledge that a limitation of the study’s results is that they were unable to identify “why” these observed differences between male and female physicians occurred, and therefore could not link gender directly to certain outcomes. Rather, the hope moving forward is that additional investigation can uncover more specifically which care patterns account for these improved outcomes and how to best apply the learnings for the betterment of all patients.