Rad Onc Salary

ijokergirl · Jan 26, 2004

Hey everyone, I am a current third year medical student interested in rad onc. As many of you know, it is sometimes hard to find out estimated income for different specialties in the medical profession. What has anyone heard about radonc? Comparable to radiology salary? Thanks!

stephew · Jan 27, 2004

its a high reimbursement field.

twaspatz · Feb 23, 2004

Rad Onc in Oklahoma City make 250k year pretty much before they even see a patient. Several spend one day a week in a rural surrounding area seeing those patients, and come in at just under a million/year.

doctalaughs · Feb 25, 2004

Stephew or anyone else:

has radonc always been a highly-compensated field or is this phenomenon recent? I'm wondering if the competitiveness in recent years is attributable to rising compensation or rising demand for radoncs or something else. Anyone have much information on the history of radonc -- ie when did it really become a separate specialty?

stephew · Feb 26, 2004

Originally posted by doctalaughs
Stephew or anyone else:

has radonc always been a highly-compensated field or is this phenomenon recent? I'm wondering if the competitiveness in recent years is attributable to rising compensation or rising demand for radoncs or something else. Anyone have much information on the history of radonc -- ie when did it really become a separate specialty?

NO its been the case for many years. But in fact its getting moreso since as of now there aren't enough coming out of resdiency (that will change I suspect).

It was in the 1960's it started to break away from radiology (i just saw a pt who was treated in 1963 by a radiologist who had had a 6 month rotation in "therpeutic radiology".. scarey, but she lived to tell the tale) Yale was one of the first progrmas and hence its still called the "Dept of therepeutic radiation".

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