It seems like there is a good amount of money to be made working random shifts part time or per diem as a hospitalist. The question I have is does this look bad on ones resume if after graduation they take on this type of job while trying to figure things out? Especially after doing a subspecialty? The advantage is you have a huge amount of flexibility while doing this type of work which one may not be able to have working in their subspecialty. But at the same time, I feel as though it may make it hard to get back into your subspecialty again if you spend some time doing this? Thoughts?
Working part time/per diem after graduation?
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It doesn't look great. Especially if you're doing it in general IM rather than cards. Doing locums for a year while you figure out where you want to be, or wait for a partner to graduate/find a job somewhere or wait for a sick parent to die, is totally reasonable and won't be looked down on at all.
But if you applied to my sub-specialty group after a year or so as a locums hospitalist, I would assume 1 of 2 things:
1. You were in it for the money, which is fine if that's what you're in medicine for, but I don't want you as a partner.
2. You struggled to find a job in your specialty and I don't even care why...Bye Felicia.
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