Hospitalist Oncologist track jobs thread

[asprin81]

We can start this thread where hospitalist oncologist can share their experience of job. We can also post a news from senior fellows getting such job offers....

One of our senior fellow with med onc started job last year in a decent size city (state's 3rd largest city) as hospital oncologist, wherer he sees 10-15 pt/week and get 300k/yr and very happy with quality of life.......5 day /week

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[gutonc]

We can start this thread where hospitalist oncologist can share their experience of job. We can also post a news from senior fellows getting such job offers....

One of our senior fellow with med onc started job last year in a decent size city (state's 3rd largest city) as hospital oncologist, wherer he sees 10-15 pt/week and get 300k/yr and very happy with quality of life.......5 day /week

If you could be more vague, that would be awesome.

 

[DrVanNostran]

What exactly is a hospitalist oncologist? Just sees the hospitals oncology patients? It seems that a "regular" hospitalist or critical care team would follow these patients at any major hospital. Or does this position just cover a private practices group?

 

[gutonc]

What exactly is a hospitalist oncologist? Just sees the hospitals oncology patients? It seems that a "regular" hospitalist or critical care team would follow these patients at any major hospital. Or does this position just cover a private practices group?

The answer is as unclear as the original statement. It's a rare thing to have an oncology trained hospitalist except in very large groups or academia. In most cases, as you note, the onc patients are admitted to hospitalists and oncology consults on them. One advantage to having an oncologist hospitalist would be the outpatient docs can stay outpatient and not have to worry about rounding or seeing consults in the hospital.

But, again, it's not that common of a situation.

 

[asprin81]

The answer is as unclear as the original statement. It's a rare thing to have an oncology trained hospitalist except in very large groups or academia. In most cases, as you note, the onc patients are admitted to hospitalists and oncology consults on them. One advantage to having an oncologist hospitalist would be the outpatient docs can stay outpatient and not have to worry about rounding or seeing consults in the hospital.

But, again, it's not that common of a situation.

My friend in The example I gave, work as inpetient consult guy of 7 member single speciality oncology group where all other onc docs work in out pt setting . He covers their pts when they get admitted, and he sees them as oncology consultant while hospitalist is the primary doc for those admitted pt. he update primary oncologist about pts admition and take their input on email/fone....

 

[Tedebear]

Interesting thread.

After learning about this I did some due diligence and these positions do exist with high income potential

The question is are these hospitalists that work in oncology (ie with no heme onc training).

P.S. Thanks GutOnc for the new section

 

[gutonc]

Interesting thread.

After learning about this I did some due diligence and these positions do exist with high income potential

The question is are these hospitalists that work in oncology (ie with no heme onc training).

P.S. Thanks GutOnc for the new section

The job that Asprin81 is describing is a Hem/Onc doc employed by a Hem/Onc group who covers all the inpatient work that group gets. Patients admitted for chemo, for chemo complications (neut fever, etc) or disease complications (SBO, pain crisis, etc) as well as (I assume) seeing new consults. For a group of this size, it makes perfect sense.

A rough guess is that each doc has 2 or 3 patients in-house at a time. If each one had to cover his/her own inpatients, it would take a minimum of an hour (assuming clinic attached to hospital) and more likely 2+ hours to see their patients in the hospital each day. Multiply that by 7 docs and all of a sudden you're losing 1-1.5 work-days for the group if each has to trek to the hospital (or you're losing free time which makes recruiting more difficult). You could be seeing another 20+ outpatients in that time. This would easily pay for itself in terms of increased productivity in the office and would probably make everybody happier.

Now, this kind of job is not very common. What is very common however is what you describe, namely an IM hospitalist employed by either the hem/onc group or the hospital itself, that admits and manages hem/onc patients. But this person probably can't write for chemo, can't do bone marrow biopsies (a huge consult cash cow) and can't do consults for the group. So they still need to have somebody Hem/Onc trained on call covering the hospital(s).

 

[fibonacci011]

If you could be more vague, that would be awesome.

hmm. let's just say this state is somewhere between the atlantic and pacific oceans, north of mexico, south of canada, and the moon is directly over it right...................................now!

 

[asprin81]

hmm. let's just say this state is somewhere between the atlantic and pacific oceans, north of mexico, south of canada, and the moon is directly over it right...................................now!

New York state (In the middle of NJ, CT, 6 hr from NYC)