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EM physicians should be trained in a way that they’re equally capable of earning a living outside of an Emergency Department as they are in one.
Exit plans shouldn’t be an afterthought, like a pilot hitting the eject button as a last ditch effort. It should be part of the plan and training.
EPs should be able to seamlessly move from ED-based careers to non-ED based careers. If EPs could easily do this, they’d have leverage, as opposed to now, where they’re at the mercy of the whims of administrators, CMGs and contract gain/loss.
If this was the case, EPs would have the leverage to easily walk away. They wouldn’t be at the mercy of contract loss, hospital based politics or administrators whims.
It would also be an incredible Insurnace policy against burnout if those non-ED based options avoided circadian-disruption dysphoria.
This should be a part of normal EM training. EPs should not be forced to reinvent the wheel, mid career in a scattered way or out of desperation.
EM training should take as much responsibility for the EPs exit from EM, as they it does entry into EM.
You can.
There's UC, Sports Medicine, CCM (medical, surgical and neurologic), Pain. Some of these are paycuts some are not. Some take time.
You can go out on your own and do direct or concierge stuff, offering UC, limited primary care, cosmetics. Takes business acumen and hard work. What you think these IM PCPs do who go out on their own and open a practice?
Or you can put up, and take your 300k minimum and move on.