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As I was approaching my CA-3 year I began to look for a practice to join. Perhaps it was naive of me to wait so long, but that was my approach. I realized that at no point during residency did anyone attempt to teach me ANYTHING that would be even remotely helpful for finding a job or determining what separates a good job from a lousy one. In fact, I didn't even understand the basics of anesthesia billing until a PP guy outside of my program explained it to me one day early in my CA-2 year. I consider myself to be the most knowledgeable resident in my program as to how the real world actually works, and everything I learned was from extensive searches on the internet or cornering my attendings or anesthesiologists I've met outside of work and peppering them with questions. To this day there has never been a single lecture or discussion about anything related to real world anesthesia practice during my 3 1/2 yrs of residency. Someone from last years graduating class actually took a 1099 position with no benefits without understanding what that was or that he was required to provide his own malpractice insurance. It wasn't until they specifically asked him for details on malpractice that he realized that it was his responsibility.
After that long intro, my question is whether or not this is the exception or the rule. Do other programs take time to teach you about billing, practice settings, malpractice insurance, retirement benefits or anything else? It has been a source of disappointment to me that my program has left the responsibility to me, but perhaps I'm placing too much blame on them for something that is universally overlooked. Any comments on other training programs would be appreciated.
After that long intro, my question is whether or not this is the exception or the rule. Do other programs take time to teach you about billing, practice settings, malpractice insurance, retirement benefits or anything else? It has been a source of disappointment to me that my program has left the responsibility to me, but perhaps I'm placing too much blame on them for something that is universally overlooked. Any comments on other training programs would be appreciated.