concurrent civilian position?

[Bumbl3b33]

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Hi,

I'm considering going down the HPSP route and expecting to train in FM (lots of experience in it, love the field....just go with it). I have a few reservations about joining any branch right now because I would like to know

1) What's the quality of residency in military/army compared to a mid to high (i.e. Colorado) quality civilian residency?

2) As an attending, if I want to do both inpatient and outpatient work, how flexible are they about letting you do more? My impression from talking to the recruiter was that you're told which floor to be on and where, and that's the end of it.

3) Also as an attending, would it be frowned about if you were a full-time military doc and then doing a part-time hospitalist job or w/e on the side in the civilian world?

I know these sound like ridiculous questions, but honestly my life is very work>relationships tilted, and I like it like that so these questions do play a big role in whether or not I take the HPSP.

Thanks!

 

[NavyFP]

Hi,

I'm considering going down the HPSP route and expecting to train in FM (lots of experience in it, love the field....just go with it). I have a few reservations about joining any branch right now because I would like to know

1) What's the quality of residency in military/army compared to a mid to high (i.e. Colorado) quality civilian residency?

2) As an attending, if I want to do both inpatient and outpatient work, how flexible are they about letting you do more? My impression from talking to the recruiter was that you're told which floor to be on and where, and that's the end of it.

3) Also as an attending, would it be frowned about if you were a full-time military doc and then doing a part-time hospitalist job or w/e on the side in the civilian world?

I know these sound like ridiculous questions, but honestly my life is very work>relationships tilted, and I like it like that so these questions do play a big role in whether or not I take the HPSP.

Thanks!

OK, first. Let's get a better balance. I love what I do, but in the end how many people put on their tombstone, "I wish I had spent more time at work."? Relationships are important.

For Family Medicine, I truly believe you will get a top notch training experience if you go the military route. Our training standards are higher. (at least in FM)

As a full spectrum FM, you will be on all floors and expected to handle everything from ER to labor deck to Peds Ward and on occasion the ICU. Not very limiting.

Would you be allowed to be a hospitalist on the side????? Depends on where you are and what the Navy needs. Could be possible, but not very likely.

 

[Bumbl3b33]

Thanks!!

 

[notdeadyet]

For Family Medicine, I truly believe you will get a top notch training experience if you go the military route. Our training standards are higher. (at least in FM)

I'm not a huge fan of military residency training in general, but I'd support NavyFP on this one. Military residency training in IM and FM stends to skew more heavily towards inpatient than their civilian counterparts. Their residency training tends to be solid, I would put it on par with many mid-to-mid/high civilian counterparts.

If your question comes from many peoples' advice to look for moonlighting opportunities to keep skills up, most of that seems to come from the more procedural specialties.