Figuring out the office politics on the attending interview trail

[amestramgram]

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Hi, I need to rant a little bit about my university's HR department -
they have let some really competent anesthesiologists and echo techs leave because they don't know the value of having senior people take care of complex cases, and would rather let new hires fail on those complex cases purely because it's cheaper for them. Case in point - the university is in the process of hiring new echo techs, for pediatric and adult echo. They refuse to let our department hire good pediatric echo techs - while failing to consider that good pediatric echo techs are needed for the much more complex pediatric echocardiograms. They would rather bring in new trainees, let them fail, let our productivity suffer, and have less imaging RVUs in the end - because some HR boss refuses to understand the value of good talent. An echo tech trained in adult echo tech can turn around to do pediatric echo, but it requires more time being a supervisory role. The key difference is that there is a great deal more thinking on your feet in pediatric echo.

So how do you explain to businesspeople the value of good talent?
And secondly, how can you sort out if you are going to be able to tolerate the office politics while on your attending interview trail?

Cheers lads.

 

[GoSpursGo]

This thread seems very similar to your other active thread about doctors vs administrators. Since we don't need two threads on this topic, I'm closing this one.