Urgent advice to all physician who are graduating

I wish all new graduates a great new start of life. I would recommend all of them not to start working as a hospitalist. If you want to put your life as a resident behind then you should join with a group and start working on establishing your practice. If you are working as a hospitalist, 99.99% of time you will be resident again.

If you are fmg/img and working as a Hospitalist, you are in the worst situation, it is equivalent to modern day slavery.

I will post more later but this is my advice based on personal experience.

good luck to you all.

MDsuggests

4 comments:

wilfee said...

Hey MDSuggests,
Thanks for a good blog. My wife is going to signup as a hospitalist....one thing in her contract that i noticed is there is mention of tail coverage which she will be responsible for..what do you think.

Michael said...

Interesting blog! Please, continue the blog. I am currently a first year IM resident thinking about career options.

Unknown said...

This is completely bogus.
Enter practice? Practice pays 50% of what you make as a hospitalist, plus clinic calls, plus administration to deal with plus 20 outpatient visits a day, plus no time off apart from a weekend when you are not on call, junior practice members will also get worst patients (drug seekers, disability paperwork fillers) just because they are new, there is no incentive or RVU, everything takes forever, you cannot just leave a job and uproot, who's going to cover your clinic patients lets say on vaccation, when you come from vaccation you have heaps of paperwork to go through, building a practice takes time, how many new graduates do not know even know where to start geographically, never mind to commit to location and practice? For people who are comfortable from within hospital, who like speed, who like sick people, who like to see results of their work, i.e. people getting better or not, for those who need flexibility and income, for those in between residency and fellowship potential, for those who want to work hard, play hard, hospitalist is highly sough out, but you have to find a place where you are not going to be worked to the bone.

Unknown said...

This is completely bogus.
Enter practice? Practice pays 50% of what you make as a hospitalist, plus clinic calls, plus administration to deal with plus 20 outpatient visits a day, plus no time off apart from a weekend when you are not on call, junior practice members will also get worst patients (drug seekers, disability paperwork fillers) just because they are new, there is no incentive or RVU, everything takes forever, you cannot just leave a job and uproot, who's going to cover your clinic patients lets say on vaccation, when you come from vaccation you have heaps of paperwork to go through, building a practice takes time, how many new graduates do not know even know where to start geographically, never mind to commit to location and practice? For people who are comfortable from within hospital, who like speed, who like sick people, who like to see results of their work, i.e. people getting better or not, for those who need flexibility and income, for those in between residency and fellowship potential, for those who want to work hard, play hard, hospitalist is highly sough out, but you have to find a place where you are not going to be worked to the bone.