I get roughly 2 dozen emails a day offering a variety of locums positions ranging from 1 week to "ongoing". Call is usually expected. Comp for agency jobs typically runs in the $3000-3500/d range, at least around here. This includes malpractice and credentialing fees. It's 1099 income and doesn't include any "benefits" like health/disability/life insurance, PTO, 401k, etc.
Is this mostly inpatient work to cover a gap in the schedule? What did these locums docs say was their reason for working locums?
I have credentialed a number of locums and one of them was not terrible. Perhaps we are talking about the same person.
People work locums in all fields for a variety of reasons. I am personally considering it, 15-20 years down the road as a transition to retirement. But a lot of the locums docs I've interacted with have done it because they can't hold down a regular job d/t personality issues.
Why you went into the field, and why some other people went into the field, are likely radically different.
About 2 years ago, someone suggested we engage a locums doc to help cover a few months between a physician retiring and a new one coming onboard. I gave up all of my administrative time to cover that clinic so we could avoid locums.
I guess it depends on what you mean by logistics.
I am thinking about several things here.
Would you mind messaging me their information?
I think he’s talking about this guy. https://www.instagram.com/theoncrediblemd/
Ayyy let’s go! Good to see more people cashing out in medicine
Maybe it's a generational thing but I got second-hand embarrassment from most of those videos. There was some relevant stuff in there if you look for it. Imagine being a patient with a serious illness and your doctor is posting click-bait videos about how much it is to gas up your Lambo.
Wow I didn't know this guy made an instagram. I was a resident at the same hospital he was a fellow. I knew of him peripherally as I knew his junior co-fellows better. He was a notoriously bad clinician and wasn't quiet about only doing this for the money. The hospitalist team was glad he graduated so he would stop moonlighting and making a mess of things. He might know how to make money but I wouldn't want to work with him after hearing stories from his colleagues.
I think I should be able to submit a log of the dozens (hundreds?) of hours I spend annually reading UpToDate and call it a day
I fall in the middle here. I decided to do the LKA when I had to re-up last year and I actually find it fairly educational. I would say that half of the questions are softballs, another quarter of them make me think for a minute and the rest I actually have to look something up and learn something. I am one of those people who keeps a tab open with UTD, one with NCCN and one with PubMed open at all times and I will look something up on at least half of my new patients and 10-25% of my follow ups every single day.
