An open seat doesn’t wait. Patients get rebooked, colleagues absorb the overflow, locum costs stack.
Reach the practitioners job boards can’t.
The strongest physicians aren’t applying. They’re working.
A practitioner who fits, and stays.
That’s what we work toward. We assess your opportunity before we accept the search, reach practitioners who may never see your posting, help you sharpen the offer and keep working past the first introductions. For flexible and part-time roles, recruitment fees are an agreed percentage based on the practitioner’s earnings. Activate once. Recruit together.
Representative physician searches delivered across Canadian healthcare.
The hardest vacancies aren’t recruiting problems yet.
Hard vacancies rarely persist for one reason. We identify whether the constraint is compensation, schedule, geography or positioning — then give you the market evidence to act on it.
01 · Compensation.
Is the offer where the market is — or where the budget is?
02 · Schedule.
Call, hours and flexibility: the objection candidates raise first.
03 · Geography.
Who will actually move, commute or cover — and from where.
04 · Positioning.
How the role reads to a physician who isn’t looking.
We identify the constraint before asking you to fund a search. The assessment is free and confidential. For searches where we see a credible path to placement and a fit with MDSearch, a recruiter will respond within one business day. How a search is assessed and run →
| Typical alternatives | MDSearch |
|---|---|
| Public advertising and inbound applications | Direct outreach through MDSearch’s practitioner network |
| Contingency searches may involve multiple suppliers | One accountable team, protected in your market |
| Primarily reaches physicians already considering a move | Active, passive and future candidates |
| Batch shortlist later in the process | Candidates introduced with consent after screening. |
| Scheduled progress updates | Live Sync workspace and direct updates |
| Provider models and experience vary | Founder-led · Recruitment roots since 1999. Physician recruitment since 2006. |
The network · Built since 2006 · No purchased lists
50,000+ practitioner connections.One search.The few who fit.
Every connection comes from real practitioner activity — outreach, applications, referrals and professional relationships. Every search narrows that network by specialty, geography, schedule, compensation and fit.
Illustrative · not to scale
Candidates are introduced with their consent once screening is complete — not held back until the search is complete.
"MDSearch was able to find a candidate within three weeks — and three years later the physician is still with us."
Marcel · Clinic Director · Centre de santé communautaire Hamilton/Niagara (CSCHN)
Industry-leading offer. Immediate need. Practice-ready candidate. Qualifying searches get priority standing and move first, with direct introductions as soon as suitable candidates are confirmed.
Roles reach our network before they’re posted publicly. Browse what’s open now — or register and hear about opportunities first.
Next step
Tell us about the role. We'll tell you whether there's a credible path to placement.
About five minutes tells us what your search needs. We'll respond honestly: whether we can take it, on what timeline, and how we'd structure it.