WeekdayDoc vs DocCafe: which fits your search?

DocCafe is best for volume and locum tenens — a large mixed inventory of permanent and locums physician and PA jobs with daily email alerts. WeekdayDoc is best for searching by schedule and pay — no-call, no-nights, no-weekends, part-time and remote filters, with disclosed pay on more than half of listings and a market comparison on each job. Neither replaces the other; here is how to decide, and why many physicians use both.

Written by Riley Konara, MD, who runs WeekdayDoc — so read this as an informed but interested comparison. Facts checked 2026-10-08; next review 2027-01-08. Corrections: riley@weekdaydoc.com.

The decision in one minute

Pick DocCafe if…

Volume and locum tenens
You want recruiters to find you through a candidate database
You want a locums-first marketplace (WeekdayDoc lists locums alongside permanent roles, without agency credentialing tools)

Pick WeekdayDoc if…

You want to filter by call, nights, weekends, part-time or remote rather than read every description
You want pay stated before you apply, with a comparison against similar roles
You want to search without an account and control exactly who may contact you

Use both when you want DocCafe’s reach and WeekdayDoc’s filters: search here by schedule and pay, then check DocCafe for roles that only in-house recruiters post. Both are free for physicians.

WeekdayDoc right now · counted from the live database Oct 22, 2026

150,000+: live clinician listings
55%: show pay before you apply
22,000+: physician listings
14,000+: no-call roles

Rounded down; refreshed daily. 12,239 employers across 54 states and territories. Other boards’ counts are not shown because we cannot verify them the same way.

Feature by feature

	WeekdayDoc	DocCafe
Best for	searching by schedule and pay — no-call, no-nights, no-weekends, part-time and remote filters, with disclosed pay on more than half of listings and a market comparison on each job	volume and locum tenens — a large mixed inventory of permanent and locums physician and PA jobs with daily email alerts
Listings come from	aggregated + employer-posted	recruiter/employer-posted
Who pays	employers (sponsored) + free indexing; free for physicians	employers and recruiters; free for physicians
Pay on listings	Usually shown (55% of live listings today)	Sometimes shown
Schedule filters (call / nights / weekends / part-time / remote)	Yes	No — in the description text
Locum tenens	Yes	Yes
Candidate / CV database	No — opt-in, identity-hidden Talent matching only	Yes
Non-physician clinician roles	Yes	Yes

Board	Best for	Pay shown	Filters	Locums	Scores (1–5)
WeekdayDoc	searching by schedule and pay	Usually shown	Yes	Yes	Transparency●●●●● Lifestyle search●●●●● Reach●●●●●
DocCafe	volume and locum tenens	Sometimes shown	No	Yes	Transparency●●●●● Lifestyle search●●●●● Reach●●●●●

How the three scores work (and why there is no overall winner)

transparency: How often a listing shows pay and schedule facts before you apply (5 = nearly always, 1 = rarely).
Lifestyle search: How well you can search BY schedule — call, nights, weekends, part-time, remote (5 = first-class filters, 1 = keyword only).
reach: Breadth of physician inventory and employer relationships (5 = the largest recruiter-posted inventories, 1 = narrow).

We do not add them up. A resident wanting recruiters to find them needs reach; a physician protecting their evenings needs lifestyle search. WeekdayDoc scores highest on lifestyle search and transparency and middling on reach — that is an honest description of what we are. Scores are our editorial judgment from using each board; they are not user ratings.

Pros and cons of each

DocCafe

recruiter/employer-posted · employers and recruiters; free for physicians

doccafe.com ↗

Best for: volume and locum tenens — a large mixed inventory of permanent and locums physician and PA jobs with daily email alerts.

DocCafe lists a high volume of physician and physician-assistant positions, including many locum tenens roles from staffing agencies. Free candidate profiles, resume upload and frequent alert emails make it a common “cast a wide net” board.

Pay on listings: Sometimes shown
Schedule filters: No — read the description
Locum tenens: Listed
CV database: Yes

Pros

Among the largest raw listing counts, including locums.
Daily alerts by specialty and state.
Covers physicians and PAs together.

Cons

Many listings are agency-posted and repeat across agencies; the same job can appear several times.
Pay often appears as a range or “competitive”; schedule details are in free text.
Resume upload invites a high volume of recruiter contact.

WeekdayDocThat’s us

aggregated + employer-posted · employers (sponsored) + free indexing; free for physicians

weekdaydoc.com ↗

Best for: searching by schedule and pay — no-call, no-nights, no-weekends, part-time and remote filters, with disclosed pay on more than half of listings and a market comparison on each job.

WeekdayDoc aggregates physician and clinician listings from employer career sites and adds employer-posted roles, then extracts schedule facts (call, nights, weekends, hours) and pay so you can filter on them. Each job page compares the stated pay with a cohort of similar roles. Founded by a physician; free for clinicians.

Pay on listings: Usually shown
Schedule filters: Yes — call, nights, weekends, part-time, remote
Locum tenens: Listed
CV database: No

Pros

Schedule filters that other boards do not have: no call, no nights, no weekends, part-time, 4-day week, remote.
Pay shown on most listings, with a percentile against similar roles rather than a bare number.
Free, no account needed to search; Get Discovered is strictly opt-in and identity-hidden.
Covers NP, PA, RN, therapy, pharmacy and other clinician roles alongside physicians.

Cons

Younger and smaller brand than PracticeLink or PracticeMatch; fewer recruiter relationships, so some recruiter-only roles are missing.
Most listings are aggregated from employer sites — descriptions can lag the employer’s own page by a day, and a few schedule facts are inferred from text rather than stated.
Locums are listed alongside permanent roles rather than in a dedicated locums marketplace (no agency credentialing or housing workflow); no CV database — employers reach candidates through the opt-in Talent program only.
Little academic/society content (CME, fellowships, journals) — it is a search tool, not a career center.

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