Best specialties for night work?

[chicandtoughness]

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Not sure if this belongs here in pre-allo, feel free to move if not!

I'm wondering what specialties could set me up for a career where I mainly work nights. My natural circadian rhythm has always preferred nights and I've worked nights for the past 5 years and love it. I'd like to continue.

Besides the obvious answer of EM, what other specialties might allow me to make a full time job out of working almost exclusively nights?

 

[deleted987519]

Not sure if this belongs here in pre-allo, feel free to move if not!

I'm wondering what specialties could set me up for a career where I mainly work nights. My natural circadian rhythm has always preferred nights and I've worked nights for the past 5 years and love it. I'd like to continue.

Besides the obvious answer of EM, what other specialties might allow me to make a full time job out of working almost exclusively nights?

nocturnist

 

[Tenk]

In terms of dedicated nocturnist besides EM it’s mostly just crit care, hospitalist, and radiologist. Technically can also say PICU, NICU, and peds hospitalist as well although those fall under those umbrella categories but are quite specific. Most every other specialty will require day shift hours to pull in revenue. These specialties can be dedicated 100% nocturnist shift work without call during the day (although not always...).

 

[longhaul3]

ER is the obvious like you said, I would also imagine Intensivist's, OB/GYN too all the late night or early morning deliveries, alongside the ER physicians are Trauma surgeons I believe they work in the ER but would come in if a patient had something that needed to be operated on immediately. I'm sure there are others but those are the first 3 that spring to my mind!

In terms of actual scheduled shifts during the night, it's really only EM, nocturnist in peds/IM, or radiology. The examples you mention like ob/gyn, trauma, any kind of surgery usually work on a call schedule at night or do 24h in-house call every x days, so they still do most of their work during the day and pray that people don't call them at night. ob/gyn does have "laborists" in some places who may work 12h shifts at night; I'm not sure, never met one.

Surgery is a great field if you want to work nights—and you also want to work days.