Cardiac v General Starting salary

[bluewater]

All things being equal (ie call, vacation, benefits, years experience,) what is the difference one should see between salaries for a TEE cert CV anesthesiologist versus a general anesthesiologist?

One difference to note would be that the CV guy stays late to finish hearts when not on call.

-BW

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[Bertelman]

All things being equal (ie call, vacation, benefits, years experience,) what is the difference one should see between salaries for a TEE cert CV anesthesiologist versus a general anesthesiologist?

One difference to note would be that the CV guy stays late to finish hearts when not on call.

-BW

Depends on the group structure. Where I'm at, the CV guys don't take standard call- only heart call from home.

 

[Pilot Doc]

All things being equal (ie call, vacation, benefits, years experience,) what is the difference one should see between salaries for a TEE cert CV anesthesiologist versus a general anesthesiologist?

One difference to note would be that the CV guy stays late to finish hearts when not on call.

-BW

My guess, with no direct experience and a little indirect knowledge, is that there is no salary difference at all. What the fellowship does is open doors to jobs and groups that otherwise would not consider you.

e.g. if you want to work in a town of 50K in iowa - it makes no difference. If you want to work in a nice part of Chicago, it means you have a chance at the job.

 

[bluewater]

What if the practice is a hospital employee gig where the base is the same for all the general guys?

 

[pmichaelmd]

What if the practice is a hospital employee gig where the base is the same for all the general guys?

From what I've seen, the cardiac guys I know are easily $50-$100k/yr above the general guys, but that is to be expected with the hours and level of acuity. Of course, this is just a generalization and it varies from market to market.

 

[22go]

As as recent fellowship trained, soon to be TEE boarded, anesthesiologist most jobs(larger towns 250k people and up) I looked at had no difference in pay but different call schedule. In a lot of groups many of the partners have some form of extra training(neuro, peds, cardiac, etc....) No reason to pay cardiac guy more.

From what I understand back in the late 80's when they were cranking out 2 vessel CABGs on healthy hearts a CV anesthesiologist could have made significantly more money...

The real value is being a resource for your partners when the sick cardiac patient is getting their AV fistula done......