How to find Physicians with Boolean search strings
Use Boolean logic on Google to recruit Physicians with various backgrounds and specializations. Our search strings examples provide a basis to build your own commands and find physicians for your health care organization.
Recruiting Physicians with generic Boolean strings
Build search according to your needs:
- -job -jobs -sample -examples, to reduce false positives.
- intitle: or inurl: operator, to include the word “resume” or “CV” in the page title or page url respectively.
Here’s an example of a generic search string that you can further modify to find resumes:
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) physician -job -jobs -sample -examples
Use OR operators to expand your results with a single search. For example, use (oncologist OR radiologist), to look for both oncologists and radiologists.
Searching for Physician profiles
Run Boolean strings on Google to find Physicians on social platforms and forums. Use the site: operator and terms found exclusively on member profiles. For example:
- site:doximity.com “is on Doximity” urologist
Add more criteria in your search to find profiles that better match your requirements.
When sourcing EU candidates, please refer to guidance on using social media for recruiting and collecting candidate information as per the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.
Examples of Boolean search strings to recruit Physicians by specialization and experience
Find Physicians who:
Have various medical specialties
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) (oncologist OR radiologist) -job -jobs -sample -examples
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) psychiatrist -job -jobs -sample -examples
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) OB GYN -job -jobs -sample -examples
Are primary care physicians
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) (“family practitioner” OR “general practitioner”) -job -jobs -sample -examples
Have a background in epidemiology
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) physician epidemiology -job -jobs -sample -examples
Have worked in the ER
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) (“ER physician” OR “worked in the ER”) -job -jobs -sample -examples
Have experience in intensive care
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) physician (“intensive care” OR “critical care”) -job -jobs -sample -examples
Have published their work
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) physician (“published research” OR “published paper”) -job -jobs -sample -examples
Sample string to search for resumes of Physicians in various formats
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) (filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc OR filetype:txt) physician -job -jobs -sample -templates
Recruiting Physicians by location with Boolean search strings
By state or city:
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) neurologist (California OR CA) -job -jobs -sample -examples -template
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) “orthopedic surgeon” “Los Angeles” -job -jobs -sample -examples
By area codes:
(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) pediatrician Chicago (773 OR 312 OR 872) -job -jobs -sample -templates
Find area codes here.