<p>Coming from a good undergraduate or medical school can help in a competitive situation. Most practicing physicians look more at residency programs than UG or med schools. That all being said, the thing that most often makes or breaks a deal is personal feedback from someone who has seen the physician work. In anesthesia recruiting, a positive or negative opinion from an OR charge nurse carries much more weight than academic alma mater.</p>
<p>Red flags for recruiting include foreign medical school for U.S. citizens, failure to become board certified within a reasonable time, residency training at a program known to be weak, extensive locum tenems practice or job hopping without a really good reason.</p>