Government EM Jobs

[DeadCactus]

Anyone have or familiar with federal government jobs besides the VA? Curious what opportunities exist and what experience people have had with them.

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[Apollyon]

Anyone have or familiar with federal government jobs besides the VA? Curious what opportunities exist and what experience people have had with them.

Well, federal non-VA jobs are kind of limited. Let's see...military, Indian Health Service (Public Health Service staffing that), CIA, probably other intelligence agencies, CDC. That's off the top of my head.

The CIA job paid about $90K/year about 4 years ago. What you did was physicals for the clandestine service people - who, as a rule, are remarkably fit, so it's a lot of ortho and such.

 

[southerndoc]

CIA pays $125k/yr with opportunities to go overseas.

 

[Apollyon]

CIA pays $125k/yr with opportunities to go overseas.

I thought the docs stayed stateside, around the northern Virginia and Maryland area. At least there's a raise, now!

 

[The White Coat Investor]

I had a government EM job for 4 years. The sand was the main downside. Do you like warm, sandy places?

 

[BoardingDoc]

I had a government EM job for 4 years. The sand was the main downside. Do you like warm, sandy places?

I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb here and assume that warm and sandy != beach in this case.

 

[deleted109597]

I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb here and assume that warm and sandy != beach in this case.

It's all beach. Just no ocean.

 

[la gringa]

i have a friend who is a foreign service officer for the state department who is always trying to get me to apply to be a regional medical officer for them. just not in my plans for now - all international postings. some great and some ****ty.

 

[DeadCactus]

I had a government EM job for 4 years. The sand was the main downside. Do you like warm, sandy places?

Actually, a big part of my interest is doing the Guard plus government job thing...

 

[CliveStaples]

Since EMTALA, doesn't everybody feel like they work for the government? 😉

 

[henge]

Check USA jobs. https://www.usajobs.gov/Search?keyword=physician+emergency&Location=&AutoCompleteSelected=&search=Search
The search engine is not very good--a search for physician + emergency, salary $100,000+ will pull up lots of non-EM jobs--but it will give you a sense of what's out there, which is mostly VA, with several civilian DOD and IHS jobs and a smattering of others. Note a single listing may be for multiple openings. Some agencies list independently, see, e.g., CIA: https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/medical-officer.html