Physician Contract Glossary · Termination
Effect of Termination
Effect of termination is the set of obligations that survive after the contract ends, including non-competes, tail, and final pay.
The effect of termination clause is the after. It bundles everything that happens once employment ends: whether your non-compete activates, who buys the malpractice tail, how final compensation and earned bonus are paid, and what records and property you must return. The headline reason you left matters less than this clause, because this is where the real cost of leaving is decided.
Read this clause as carefully as the salary. The combination of an activated non-compete plus a tail premium you owe can be the most expensive paragraph in the entire contract.
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