Chances of work?

[kardon93]

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Theres a total of 15 ophthalmologist on my city, with a population of 1,100,000 inhabitants. How are my chances of get a good job? Would making a fellowship could increase my chances? I counted a total of 3 retina and vitreous and like 6 refractive surgery specialist, maybe 1 or 2 cornea and glaucoma, others were general. What you say? half of them works less than 30 hours a week.

 

[orbitsurgMD]

Theres a total of 15 ophthalmologist on my city, with a population of 1,100,000 inhabitants. How are my chances of get a good job? Would making a fellowship could increase my chances? I counted a total of 3 retina and vitreous and like 6 refractive surgery specialist, maybe 1 or 2 cornea and glaucoma, others were general. What you say? half of them works less than 30 hours a week.

That is a low ratio, underserved.

I once worked in a county with 35 ophthalmologists and a population of only 300,000. They were surrounded by other counties and a larger city with more ophthalmologists. It was over-served.

You should do a fellowship only because you want to and because you like the subspecialty. Although having done a fellowship doesn't commit you to an exclusively subspecialty practice, most fellowship-trained doctors show a preference to their subspecialty interest.

Getting a good job depends on a lot of things, least significant of which is the relative ratio of ophthalmologists in an area.

 

[vtrain]

Do you think that goes for Retina as well?

 

[StupidWikipedia]

Fargo, ND has approximately 14 ophthalmologists and 100,000 population.

El Paso, TX has approxmately 30 ophthalmologists and my guess is that there are 1M people there.

Anchorage, AK has approximately 16 ophthalmologists and covers half of the state, but not Fairbanks.

Wichita, KS has fewer than 20 ophthalmologists but not 1M population.

Rapid City, SD, near Mt. Rushmore, has approximately 10 ophthalmologists, and possibly just 2 retina, no cornea/glaucoma/oculoplastics/peds. Not 1M people but half of the state and a bit of Wyoming.

Fargo is colder than Anchorage. Anchorage has beautiful mountains. You could do ok in all 5 cities. Anchorage might only have 2 retina, 1 neuro, 1 peds, 1 glaucoma, so there may be extra work. Of the 5, Anchorage seems to have the best lifestyle, Rapid City has few subspecialists, all probably have enough work for a new person.