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First post (obviously), but a longtime lurker, and appreciative of the community here.
A summary of my current situation (more details provided upon request): I just submitted a 90-day notice at my position with an FQHC that I have worked with full-time for the last 4 years. Coincidentally, I was called a few days before putting in my notice by the director of family medicine at the medical school in town with an offer for 4 different positions:
Two offers were as residency faculty, at two different hospital-based programs, respectively--at one of which I did my residency. The third was as central faculty at the medical school, and the fourth was in a faculty development fellowship program that would also allow me to get an MPH at no cost.
What I would like advice on is that I recently found out I'm pregnant, and am due at the end of March. Two issues that immediately come up are that I won't be at a new job long enough to qualify for FMLA. Second, is that after I have this baby, I will want to take on fewer hours (from full time now, to 0.8 or 0.6 FTE), which may not go over well with a new employment.
So what are your thoughts? I'm open to and considering working locums, and I see that this may be the best option at this point. The director of one of the residency program positions did indicate that I could go to 0.6FTE at the some point and still receive full benefits, which was awesome. He doesn't know I'm pregnant (I'm still so early in the pregnancy that no one except my husband knows), but I was encouraged to hear him say that.
Just to be clear, I submitted my notice with my current employer for reasons that were essential. The administration has been taking the clinic in an unethical direction for some time now, and they had been heaping unreasonable work burdens upon me and the other providers, with no accommodations to effectively balance all the of the responsibilities, and no added compensation (and had even started decreasing salaries, even as they continued to expand and acquire new clinic sites, while hiring numerous non-clinical managers to oversee all of us).
Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks, everyone.
A summary of my current situation (more details provided upon request): I just submitted a 90-day notice at my position with an FQHC that I have worked with full-time for the last 4 years. Coincidentally, I was called a few days before putting in my notice by the director of family medicine at the medical school in town with an offer for 4 different positions:
Two offers were as residency faculty, at two different hospital-based programs, respectively--at one of which I did my residency. The third was as central faculty at the medical school, and the fourth was in a faculty development fellowship program that would also allow me to get an MPH at no cost.
What I would like advice on is that I recently found out I'm pregnant, and am due at the end of March. Two issues that immediately come up are that I won't be at a new job long enough to qualify for FMLA. Second, is that after I have this baby, I will want to take on fewer hours (from full time now, to 0.8 or 0.6 FTE), which may not go over well with a new employment.
So what are your thoughts? I'm open to and considering working locums, and I see that this may be the best option at this point. The director of one of the residency program positions did indicate that I could go to 0.6FTE at the some point and still receive full benefits, which was awesome. He doesn't know I'm pregnant (I'm still so early in the pregnancy that no one except my husband knows), but I was encouraged to hear him say that.
Just to be clear, I submitted my notice with my current employer for reasons that were essential. The administration has been taking the clinic in an unethical direction for some time now, and they had been heaping unreasonable work burdens upon me and the other providers, with no accommodations to effectively balance all the of the responsibilities, and no added compensation (and had even started decreasing salaries, even as they continued to expand and acquire new clinic sites, while hiring numerous non-clinical managers to oversee all of us).
Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks, everyone.
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