Dean Walker
Dean Walker is Director of Physician Recruiting at The US Oncology Network (McKesson), where his team has placed 1,000+ of the network's 1,500+ physicians; he appears on The OnCol Podcast on long-term oncology recruitment.
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Sep 28, 2026
Megan BarberHOST
From your vantage point, what have you heard from practices about challenges when it comes to recruiting physicians?
Dean WalkerGUEST
The main one would be the limited physician supply that exists in the United States today.
Dean WalkerGUEST
According to national data, there's approximately 800 oncology candidates entering the workforce annually, and about half of those will remain in academic medicine.
Dean WalkerGUEST
So that significantly shrinks the pool available to our community oncology partners.
Dean WalkerGUEST
Many candidates do prefer the densely populated metro areas due to geographic lifestyle and many other factors.
Megan BarberHOST
Can you talk about how the network helps practices navigate physician recruiting at a high level?