The AAPPR Annual Conference is open to those that meet the following criteria. Staffing agencies and other vendor companies must purchase an exhibit booth to participate. Employees of these companies are not eligible to register here.

• Individuals who are engaged in the recruitment, onboarding, and/or retention of physicians and other healthcare providers and who are employed to do so by a hospital, hospital organization, clinic, medical group, health maintenance organization, academic medical centers, or state or federal governmental agency

• Independent contractors and self-employed recruiters who are contracted directly to recruit for a single healthcare organization that employs physicians.

• Recruiters whose organization directly employs physicians and are contracted to staff other healthcare organizations with specific specialties (e.g. Emergency Medicine or Hospitalist).

• Individuals who do not actively recruit, but are directly involved in the recruitment, onboarding, and/or retention process, have supervisory responsibilities for in-house physician recruiters or are actively engaged in physician education through residency or fellowship programs (such as healthcare executives, residency directors and coordinators). 

AAPPR reserves the right to deny registration to those who do not meet the eligibility criteria.