Orthopedic surgery drives both patient outcomes and hospital margin, which makes an open seat expensive to leave unfilled. Capstone permanently recruits orthopedic surgeons — general and subspecialty — for groups, hospitals, ASCs, and PE-backed platforms nationwide, built bespoke to your service line.
A retirement cliff meets surging demand
The U.S. is projected to be short roughly 5,000 orthopedic surgeons by 2030, and the supply side is fragile: close to 60% of practicing orthopedic surgeons are 55 or older. Meanwhile an aging population is driving joint-replacement demand so steeply that researchers estimate the average surgeon’s total-joint caseload may need to double by 2050. Experienced orthopedic surgeons are among the most heavily courted physicians in medicine.
How Capstone approaches it
We reach beyond job-board applicants to the passive physicians who aren’t actively looking, vet for clinical and cultural fit before you ever see a candidate, and manage the search from first outreach to signature. Every search is built around your organization — never run from a template.
Settings we serve
Orthopedic & multispecialty groups, hospitals & health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, academic medicine, and PE-backed platforms.
Recruiting orthopedic surgery is one part of what we do — Capstone recruits across the full clinical spectrum. See all specialties →