cant find a suitable job. Im retraining in FP

[topflight]

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SO ive made my decision. Im leaving anesthesia and retraining in FP. I looked around for jobs in the cities that I wanted and could not find a job suitable. So I am going to retrain in FP.

 

[hlchess]

Have you thought about doing a fellowship instead (taking 1 extra year vs 3 more years for a FP residency)?

 

[topflight]

Have you thought about doing a fellowship instead (taking 1 extra year vs 3 more years for a FP residency)?

No fellowship opportunities either.

 

[sevoflurane]

Odd. Sorry to hear that. Will you be more satisfied after 3 yrs. of residency and then the FP lifestyle? I don't know anyone that has gone from GAS--->FP.

Good luck.

 

[jwk]

You're changing your career just because you can't practice right where you want fresh out of residency? 😕

 

[topflight]

You're changing your career just because you can't practice right where you want fresh out of residency? 😕

Im a few years out of residency. Have you looked at the job market for Docs lately. Nobody is hiring. Have you looked at the gaswork list of DOcs looking for positions? Its 4 pages long

 

[IveGotTwins]

I find this very troubling since I'm currently applying for residency in anesthesiology.

Is there something you're leaving out of the story? All of the chiefs from the programs that I've interviewed with this year have all found a job or found a fellowship.

 

[topflight]

I find this very troubling since I'm currently applying for residency in anesthesiology.

Is there something you're leaving out of the story? All of the chiefs from the programs that I've interviewed with this year have all found a job or found a fellowship.

where did they find jobs? and what kind of jobs did they find? you should find it troubling. Maybe it will get better. the older guys never retired because of the economy coupled with the fact that elective surgery is way way down. All i know, I will have zero problems finding a job in FP.

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

I'm also applying. I have some questions for you:

What are you looking for in a job?
What geographical region?
What have you been doing the past few years?
Tried locum gig?
I hear with fellowships one must apply pretty early in residency, as a CA-2 ... I think you would have had to apply early on to try to land something 1-2 years later based on that.
Where did you do your residency training?
Did you pass boards/oral boards on first shot?

 

[Coastie]

SO ive made my decision. Im leaving anesthesia and retraining in FP. I looked around for jobs in the cities that I wanted and could not find a job suitable. So I am going to retrain in FP.

Are you a troll?

Gaswork alone has nearly 900 jobs. I get recruiting emails daily about academic and private practice jobs all over the country.

 

[IveGotTwins]

The places I interviewed ranged in location from AZ to VA. Most chiefs who were taking jobs in PP were either in the same state as the program or in their hometown out of state. One of them I remember actually got a job in between her home state and her husbands home state and neither of them had any professional connections to the city nor the state.

It was about halfway through interview season when I started asking more questions about PP jobs. Most of them said they were partner track but a couple had taken non-partner track positions because they weren't planning on working that much. Both of these were women with children and both had surgeons for husbands.

I'm more interested in the fellowship/academic side of job placement and none of the people who had fellowships lined up expressed concern about finding a job after the fellowship was over. The fellowships they were going to train in ran the gamut, ICU, cardiac, peds, neuro.... no OB from what I can recall. A couple of chiefs who were going into pain already had jobs waiting for them when they got out. One was at the program he trained for basic anesthesiology and the other was PP.

I have heard that getting a job on the coasts is hard even if you have trained there but this is nothing but hearsay.

Good luck in FP if you really think that's what's best for you.

 

[Depakote]

Reincarnated troll. Sorry guys.

 

[IveGotTwins]

a troll?

I always thought a troll was someone pretending something or someone they are not; i.e. the obvious CRNA posing as an "interested pre-medical student curious about the difference between CRNAs and anesthesiologists".

This person doesn't seem (to me) to be a troll. Perhaps the OP doesn't know about gaswork or isn't interested in fellowships or failed oral/written boards and just doesn't want to say.

However, you guys have lots of experience detecting trolls so I will defer the powers that be.

 

[WholeLottaGame7]

a troll?

I always thought a troll was someone pretending something or someone they are not; i.e. the obvious CRNA posing as an "interested pre-medical student curious about the difference between CRNAs and anesthesiologists".

This person doesn't seem (to me) to be a troll. Perhaps the OP doesn't know about gaswork or isn't interested in fellowships or failed oral/written boards and just doesn't want to say.

However, you guys have lots of experience detecting trolls so I will defer the powers that be.

I doubt very much this person is actually an anesthesiologist, but even if so, a troll can also be someone who is just interested in stirring up discontent, such as this person is doing.

 

[IDBasco]

Odd. Sorry to hear that. Will you be more satisfied after 3 yrs. of residency and then the FP lifestyle? I don't know anyone that has gone from GAS--->FP.

Good luck.

One of the faculty at my school made that move back in the 80s. I don't get it, but whatever.

 

[Narcotized]

No fellowship opportunities either.

I cracked up when I read this. I'm surprised so many of you fell for it. Obviously a troll that has an agenda; such as applying to residency and trying to scare off the competition, etc. For those of you who don't know; yes, there are plenty of fellowship opportunities.

 

[IlDestriero]

I cracked up when I read this. I'm surprised so many of you fell for it. Obviously a troll that has an agenda; such as applying to residency and trying to scare off the competition, etc. For those of you who don't know; yes, there are plenty of fellowship opportunities.

More than 1/2 of the residents associated with my hospital are going to fellowships and the other 1/2 are actively interviewing and getting offers. Our fellows are interviewing all over and several have multiple offers, including "tough" areas like NYC, DC area, and San Francisco Bay. I almost left my job for another across the country. None of these jobs are on gaswork.🙄

 

[Dwindlin]

a troll?

I always thought a troll was someone pretending something or someone they are not; i.e. the obvious CRNA posing as an "interested pre-medical student curious about the difference between CRNAs and anesthesiologists".

This person doesn't seem (to me) to be a troll. Perhaps the OP doesn't know about gaswork or isn't interested in fellowships or failed oral/written boards and just doesn't want to say.

However, you guys have lots of experience detecting trolls so I will defer the powers that be.

Someone can correct me if this is off, but typically a troll is considered anyone posting stuff just to start fights and get a rise out of people.

 

[pgg]

Someone can correct me if this is off, but typically a troll is considered anyone posting stuff just to start fights and get a rise out of people.

Occasionally previously banned people are allowed to return after a while, usually after appropriate promises regardng civil behavior. Sometimes they just register new accounts and try to fly under the radar, and depending on what they were booted for and how the reincarnation behaves, they're not always automatically rebanned on sight. But as one might guess, there's a shorter fuse for permabanning them.

Sometimes it may appear that a "new" user gets banned awful quick for something minor ... the truth is that such users are rarely "new" and taken in the overall context of that user's previous work, it's usually the final straw on the back of a very, very patient senior mod or admin.

 

[Arch Guillotti]

Occasionally previously banned people are allowed to return after a while, usually after appropriate promises regardng civil behavior. Sometimes they just register new accounts and try to fly under the radar, and depending on what they were booted for and how the reincarnation behaves, they're not always automatically rebanned on sight. But as one might guess, there's a shorter fuse for permabanning them.

Sometimes it may appear that a "new" user gets banned awful quick for something minor ... the truth is that such users are rarely "new" and taken in the overall context of that user's previous work, it's usually the final straw on the back of a very, very patient senior mod or admin.

Agree.

Trolls can take many forms. The particulars of this one aren't really interesting or important. Suffice it to say that the original post was complete nonsense.