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. Over the past two decades, we’ve built 50,000+ practitioner connections and the judgment to know how to reach the right ones.
We believe physician recruitment is a market problem before it’s a recruiting problem.
Assess a search.
For hospitals, clinics and healthcare organizations hiring physicians and practitioners. Tell us about the role — we'll assess the path to placement and how we'd structure the search.
Start the search assessment → 3 minutes · confidential · typical response within one business dayExplore opportunities.
Confidential opportunities across Canada — locum, part-time and permanent — matched to your specialty, geography and how you want to work. Nothing is shared with an employer without your approval.
Explore opportunities → Confidential by default · always free for practitionersRepresentative 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 | Qualified candidates introduced as identified |
| Scheduled progress updates | Live Sync workspace and direct updates |
| Provider models and experience vary | Founder-led · physician recruitment experience across Canada since 1999 |
From 50,000+ practitioner connections to the few who fit.
50,000+
Every connection reflects a real practitioner touchpoint — built organically through outreach, applications, referrals, placements and ongoing market activity. We limit the number of searches we take on. Each search narrows the network by specialty, geography, schedule and fit.
Candidates are introduced as they’re identified — the search keeps narrowing while interviews begin. Watch it happen on The Sync →
· Engaged · Screened · Introduced
"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 receive priority standing and direct introductions, with first qualified introductions possible within 48 hours.
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.
Three 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.