after fellowship?

[painfan]

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I will be starting my fellowship next July. Wanted to ask a couple of things.
1) Not being from an anesthesiology background, how difficult would it be to find an interventionalist job. Unless the practice is specifically looking for people to do anest. part time, would there be preference towards anest.?
2) For a typical fellow, when does the job hunting start.
Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Ligament]

I will be starting my fellowship next July. Wanted to ask a couple of things.
1) Not being from an anesthesiology background, how difficult would it be to find an interventionalist job. Unless the practice is specifically looking for people to do anest. part time, would there be preference towards anest.?

-Yes and no. If you do an Anesthesiology based fellowship, that will open doors IMHO. It did for me. Do as much as you can, a year is not enough. You will need to convince your interviewers that you have no problem doing advanced procedures.

2) For a typical fellow, when does the job hunting start.
Thanks in advance for your help!

-Honestly, about the time you start fellowship, possibly sooner.

 

[melancholy]

I will be starting my fellowship next July. Wanted to ask a couple of things.
1) Not being from an anesthesiology background, how difficult would it be to find an interventionalist job. Unless the practice is specifically looking for people to do anest. part time, would there be preference towards anest.?
2) For a typical fellow, when does the job hunting start.
Thanks in advance for your help!

1) While interviewing with different pain and ortho spine private practices, my eligibility or skills as an interventionalist were never questioned being a non-anesthesiologist who completed an ACGME anesthesia-based fellowship. Having solid references and documentation of adequate training in fellowship would also back this up. I felt like I had multiple job opportunities for positions where I would have done at least a moderate amount of interventions.

Note that here in California, I was not eligible for anesthesia pain positions at Kaiser since there were some general anesthesia responsibilities. Covering acute pain rounds was also brought up during an interview at a VA pain clinic.

2) I'd consider starting to look around towards the end of residency if you have time on your hands, have a general idea of your desired location of practice, and have an idea of how you'd like to practice. Once you get into fellowship, it does take a bit of time to settle into the flow, but after that you will definitely want to start looking.

 

[Yo GabbaPentin]

1) Can't help you here. Our PMR trained fellows seem to be getting interviews at some interventional jobs. They might try to pay you less, but that is just a guess. If they want anesthesia, they will say so upfront.

2) I started looking in February of my CA3 year. Interviewed in March. Talked about a contract between May-August and signed last month. I really do not think there is such a thing as too early. Even if the group is not hiring, you could probably get your CV to them and they could consider you if they have the need in the future. Personally, I think that recruiters are useless. They only have listings for 2 reasons. Either the job sucks or the locations sucks. I would highly recommend doing your own homework and calling the practices in an area you are interested.

Thanks again to those experienced attendings who took the time to look over my contract! 👍