BLS/ACLS Instructors?

[studyinghard]

Are any residents instructors? How much does a day of instruction pay?

---

Members don't see this ad.

 

[doctorFred]

although i'm still a 4th year medical student, i was a bls instructor briefly a few years ago. pay probably varies from region to region but when i was doing it, i was only making 20-25 an hour. you'd make a lot more moonlighting.

 

[deleted6669]

$35-50/hr, certainly less than moonlighting, even for me(which is one reason I stopped doing it).

 

[jbar]

If you aren't an instructor do you have to sit through the entire course every two years, or are there generally accelerated ones for MDs? Because if I have to waste another day sitting through ACLS lectures with people who have never taken the course I might scream.

 

[Powder]

I make $45 per hour ACLS and $150 per hour PALS. Don't teach much ACLS any more.

 

[Altruist]

If you aren't an instructor do you have to sit through the entire course every two years, or are there generally accelerated ones for MDs? Because if I have to waste another day sitting through ACLS lectures with people who have never taken the course I might scream.

For the AHA classes, you can usually do a renewal course that's ~6-8 hours long (on paper anyway), take your practical and written exams again, and you're good to go for another 2 years. As long as you don't let your cards expire, you don't need to retake the full course ever again.

If you are an instructor, you have to teach 2 classes every 2 years, and you still have to sit through an instructor renewal course every 2 years.

To the OP, I was an instructor in the AHA merit badges when I was a paramedic, and I taught at a medium-sized regional hospital. The instructors I taught with were paramedics and nurses for whom teaching was a second job. I knew 1 or 2 attendings who helped teach because they liked teaching, not because of what it paid (~$30/hr).

Some of the residents told me they made $3 to 4 grand a weekend covering rural hospitals and ER's in the surrounding area, by comparison. Given that option, I wouldn't have bothered teaching ACLS, either.