MDSearch helps healthcare organizations across Canada recruit physicians and other hard-to-find healthcare professionals through disciplined search, transparent market feedback, and long-term relationship networks.
50,000+
Contacts and Professional Relationships
20+
Physician & Healthcare
Specialties
25,000+
LinkedIn Healthcare and Licensed Practitioner Connections
Healthcare recruitment is not just about posting a role and waiting for applicants. It requires clear positioning, broad market reach, disciplined execution, and the ability to adapt as market conditions change.
MDSearch combines long-standing healthcare recruitment experience with a database-driven search model built for serious hiring mandates. We recruit nationally across Canada and also support specialized international project work, but our core strength remains healthcare professionals who are licensed in Canada or eligible to practise in Canada.
Our value goes beyond sourcing. We help employers understand what is actually achievable in the market, what may need to change to improve competitiveness, and how to move from vacancy to informed hiring decisions with more clarity and less wasted effort.
Since 1999, MDSearch has built more than 25,000 physician and healthcare professional connections, over 5,000 professional relationships, and supports every search through a dedicated recruitment team.
We do not assume at the outset whether a search will be easy or difficult. Every mandate begins with broad market mapping, network activation, internal database review, LinkedIn outreach, and targeted search execution designed to cast the widest relevant net possible. From there, we screen, track, and manage the process closely to identify the strongest available and interested candidates in the shortest realistic timeframe.
Built on broad market mapping, network activation, internal database review, LinkedIn outreach, and targeted search execution to cast the widest relevant net possible.
Some searches produce multiple strong candidates, while others, particularly in remote, highly specialized, less competitive, or talent-scarce environments, may yield a much smaller pool. Our approach adapts to reflect real market conditions.
We screen, track, and manage each search closely to identify the strongest available and interested candidates, while interpreting market response honestly and maintaining discipline throughout the mandate.
Every search is supported by at least two MDSearch representatives to ensure ongoing strategy, follow-up, process evaluation, and consistent execution.
Tell us the role, location, and urgency. We’ll advise on market conditions, search approach, and next steps.
Book a Hiring CallView Recruitment ProcessIf you’re looking to recruit physicians or healthcare professionals across Canada, MDSearch can support your search with a structured, network-driven approach.
We support a broad range of healthcare recruitment mandates across Canada, including family medicine, specialists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, and hard-to-fill searches such as psychiatry, internal medicine, ENT, allergy, reproductive medicine, and remote locum emergency medicine. We also support opportunities tied to practice growth, relocation, flexibility, and alternative career paths for healthcare practitioners.
One of our roles is helping employers understand how these factors affect recruitment outcomes before valuable time is lost.
Some physician searches attract strong candidate interest immediately. Others require changes to compensation, scheduling, location flexibility, or role expectations. MDSearch helps employers understand these realities early so they can make informed hiring decisions.
MDSearch combines senior recruitment leadership with disciplined search support, outreach, tracking, and follow-through. Every mandate benefits from practical coordination, transparent communication, and a process built to learn from the market as it moves.
Managing Partner
Brett has spent more than two decades recruiting physicians and healthcare professionals across Canada. His work includes physician search strategy, market positioning, client advisory, and difficult-to-fill physician recruitment mandates. He has helped build MDSearch’s proprietary physician network and recruitment database over more than 20 years.
Specialties: Physician recruitment strategy, Difficult-to-fill searches, Market analysis, Healthcare workforce planning
Lead Operations
Kaizen has supported MDSearch for many years and plays a central role in the operational execution of MDSearch mandates. Her work includes coordination, tracking, process management, follow-up, and day-to-day search support.
Specialties: Candidate outreach, Recruitment operations, Search management, Recruitment tracking
Recruitment and Strategic Projects Support
Julie has supported MDSearch since its early growth, contributing across leadership support, strategic projects, practitioner outreach, national event representation, and long-term physician relationship building.
Specialties: Physician relationship development, Recruitment coordination, Conference outreach, Strategic projects
Lead Operations
Aabir provides bilingual English/French recruitment support, particularly for markets such as Quebec, and contributes to outreach, follow-up, candidate communication, and process discipline across mandates.
Specialties: Quebec recruitment, Candidate communication, Follow-up processes, Physician outreach
Insights into physician recruitment, healthcare hiring challenges, physician shortages, and long-term retention across Canada.
