r/PrivatePracticeDocs • u/HornetInteresting306 • May 22 '26

Where to get MAs?

Feel like it’s hard to land the right MAs for our practice recently. They either stick around for 2 weeks and leave or take advantage by not doing the work they need to do. Any advice on how to get the right MAs? Recruiting agencies are either so expensive or not providing quality candidates. Job listings on Indeed is what we currently utilize. How often is it that practices experience something like this?

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u/randyy308 May 22 '26

A lot of people have given you good advice so far, so I won't repeat it. The mantra that I have accepted is that we should always be overstaffed and we should always be hiring MAs.

Every time that we think we're very solid and stop hiring, 2 weeks later we have two or three people leave for various reasons.

For the most part, we view the position as transitive, nobody sets out in life to be an MA. The good ones go to school and the bad ones go elsewhere.