The
Katz Company was formed in July of 2001 with the purpose of providing
expert recruitment and consulting services to the Emergency Medicine
arena as well as extensive educational opportunities for graduating
residents.
Barbara
Katz, President of Katz Co. brings 25 years of professional recruitment
and training experience to her position and has been working exclusively
with Emergency Medicine physicians since 1991. Well known for her informative,
and often provocative monthly column The Katz Report (originally
known as Effective Job Searching) running in Emergency Physicians
Monthly for over 8 years, Barb has become a recognized expert in the
Emergency Medicine marketplace. She has also been an expert witness
in this area. Realizing early on that the specialtys graduating
residents were ill-prepared to navigate the job market, Barb created
the training seminar Effective Job Searching. It was first
presented as a pilot program at East Carolina Universitys Emergency
Medicine Residency program in 1995, and resulted in the highest ratings
in the history of the program. The four-hour seminar is now conducted
at residency programs around the country, with the contents updated
annually to reflect the constant changes, new trends and developments
in the Emergency Medicine arena. It has also been expanded to apply
to experienced physicians and presented to enthusiastic response at
the AAWEP 1996 Leadership Conference. Ms. Katz has also served as faculty
at the Virginia ACEP Careers in Emergency Medicine conference
for two years. Barbara has also trained the in-house recruitment staffs
for Team Health, and will be faculty for ACEP Scientific Assembly in Chicago in 2008.
As
a featured speaker for EMRA at their ACEP Scientific Assembly program
Life After Residency, Barb has experienced standing-room-only
audiences and rave reviews every year since 1998. She also serves as
a career consultant at their annual job fair each year, providing professional
career advice to individual residents. Her presentations and contributions
to education for EMRA have all been made at her own expense. Barb has
also presented several programs at the AAEM Scientific Assembly. Recently,
Ms. Katz was afforded the honor of contributing a chapter to the newest
AAEM textbook, Rules of The Road, as the only non-physician
faculty author. Ms. Katz has also served as faculty for the 2004 Academy
of Family Practitioners CME Program, Emergency & Urgent Care
on the subject of the future of Family Practitioners in the world of
Emergency Medicine.
The
Katz Companys commitment to Emergency Medicine is absolute, and
continues to be evident in the range and quality of the services delivered.
Whether a small community hospital in rural America or a famous urban
teaching center, the full scope of our knowledge and services are available
to any facility that fulfills the Katz Companys practice quality
specification requirements. Those clients who are chosen as suitable
practice opportunities for the elite Katz Company physician candidates
will experience specialized recruitment and consulting assistance with
the emphasis on superior knowledge, customer service and long-term relationship
development.
We
provide professional physician recruitment and consulting service in
the following areas: