It started many years ago, but has really taken off with the DNP BS. That extra year has absolutely zero clinical content. That's why current CRNAs with master's degrees can "upgrade" online to the DNP.
This cannot be true.
sure it can. The job that I used to work at had a CRNA training program that had a few “lectures”on Anesthesiologist/CRNA relations and the history of the profession on how we stole the field because of the economic opportunities that were present.
Hate to break it to you, if it were up to the surgeons this is what they would have.
They used to do that.
What was that thing about the definition of insanity? Switching one mid-level for another is just cutting off your nose to spite your face. I get the physician support if it's just a matter of burning down the city as you retreat, but the idea that it won't be the same thing in a generation is just delusional.
That is your opinion. I happened to have a different opinion for plenty of reasons after being in this arena for a while. If you want to talk about it DM me.
Great idea. Right up there with slitting one's own throat.
There are enough physicians, not enough MID LEVELS. We need to produce those. But not nursey types. We need AAs to compete with the CRNAS.
This demonstrates the point exactly...thanks.
To be fair that’s the case with all of medicine - and all jobs of all sorts really, not just us.
Imagine you live in a city and you're the only person in town that can install an oven. You're doing great. Now imagine they've decide to train 100 more oven installers and they're going to set them up in your town. Now you're screwed.
Let's all be honest. The shortage is in underserved areas and to more accurate, in underserved rural areas. The pay usually isn't that great and more often then not they're places people don't want to live and raise families, so there is a shortage of physicians, usually specialist. In the cities or near cities anesthesiologists are falling off trees, so in that case it become supply vs demand. There are so many around that we can pay them crap (NYC, SoCal, etc)
AAs
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This is what I mean about the labor shortage and the so called wage gains. They are modest if they exist at all and have been eating away with inflation.Apparently there’s also a shortage of 22yo college grads. But the money won’t go far with $6 gas, $4000 rent, and $20 burgers and cocktails.
Behold, the New Starting Salary for Some Graduates Is $100,000
Entry-level professionals in tech, banking and consulting are getting showered with cash.
We’ve been talking about AAs for three decades or more. Need a new plan chief
Wow - hopefully this new surge of residencies doesn’t cause us to crumble like EM did…
MD salary will be lower than both of the aforementioned. Keep Pumpin' out residents.
MD care. MLP salary. Now that’s value based care!
In the future, CRNA only care> MD Only care. That's even more value based.
There are AMCs in that area that have high turnover
That or our salaries equalize
