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 an organically grown 50,000+ practitioner network 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.

Tell us about the role. We’ll tell you whether there’s a credible path to placement.

Trusted across Canadian healthcare

Representative physician searches delivered across Canadian healthcare.

Hospitals & rehabilitation
Internal Medicine and Hospitalist Physicians for two of Toronto's leading geriatric and rehabilitation hospitals
Academic psychiatry & mental health
Academic Psychiatrists for a leading Canadian university department and interventional mental-health clinics
Northern & remote healthcare
Family Physicians and CCFP-EM Physicians for a territorial health authority serving remote northern communities
Preventive & functional health
15+ Physicians recruited for leading preventive, longevity and executive health clinics
Aesthetic medicine · national network
Plastic Surgeons, Dermatologists and Cosmetic Physicians for a national medical aesthetics network
Urgent care · 15-year partnership
40+ Family and Emergency Physicians recruited through a 15-year Ontario urgent care partnership
Fertility & maternal-fetal medicine
Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Fertility Specialists for leading reproductive health clinics
Allergy & ENT
Allergists and Head & Neck Surgeons for specialized referral practices
Mental-health treatment
Physicians and Psychiatrists for national interventional mental-health clinics
Digital & virtual health
Family Physicians for national virtual-care and OHIP-billable telemedicine platforms
Retail & community health
Family Physicians for retail and community clinic networks
Veterans' health
Physicians and Nurse Practitioners for veterans' care providers in the Maritimes and beyond
Founded 2006
Canadian physician recruitment
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Practitioner placements
500 +
Employers — clinics to 70-location networks · most return
75 +
We accept searches where we see a credible path to placement
1 Selective
Why practitioners take our calls

When we call, practitioners answer.

We carry serious searches only. That protects the trust behind our network — and gives every search the attention it requires. Our outreach is selective, relevant, and tied to a real opportunity.

One search. Your search.

Retained and employer-paid — dedicated execution through placement, not a race against other firms.

Watch it happen.

Every search runs on The Sync — our live client workspace showing outreach, screening and introductions in real time.

How retained search differs
Typical alternativesMDSearch
Public advertising and inbound applicationsDirect outreach through MDSearch’s practitioner network
Non-exclusive searches may involve multiple suppliersOne accountable team under protected representation
Primarily reaches physicians already considering a moveActive, passive and future candidates
Candidate delivery at agreed milestonesQualified candidates introduced as identified
Scheduled progress updatesLive Sync workspace and direct updates
Provider models and experience varyFounder-led; two decades in physician search
The network

A practitioner network built over two decades—no purchased lists.

50,000+

Organic connection points · email, LinkedIn & direct channels · built over the past two decades

Every record is a real way to reach someone — an email, a LinkedIn link, a direct channel — built organically through outreach, applications, referrals, placements and ongoing market activity. No purchased lists. Continuously refreshed so the network stays current, reachable, and relevant to each search.

Concentric network: 50,000+ organic connection points
Connection points   Contacted
· Engaged · Screened · Introduced
In their words

"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)

⚡ Fast Track

Industry-leading offer. Immediate need. Practice-ready candidate. Qualifying searches receive priority standing and direct introductions, with first qualified introductions possible within 48 hours.

Physicians

Roles reach our network before they’re posted publicly. Browse what’s open now — or register and hear about opportunities first.