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For first job out of residency? Is it something that is highly competitive and requires a lot of research during residency? Thanks
these days young attendings end up being worker bees in academics. 99.5% clinical. Maybe 1-2 hour non clinical time every 2 weeks and it’s crap time. Say a 230pm lecture with some med students when you are tired and don’t feel like doing it.
It's too easy to get a job. Which is why many academic institutions end up with folks who just want an easy paying job and very little interest in educating residents.
Right, and then the old cats will enjoy two CA2 rooms while not teaching because "they've done their due".The incentives are perverse. The young attendings take a ton of clinical responsibilities, have almost zero protected time, but are also expected to educate, lecture and teach residents. At my institution, we are also expected to help provide lunch breaks and other breaks. When you do urology cases and see 20+ patients, at the end of the day it is damned exhausting.
It’s easy to get an academic job, it’s harder to get a good job. A lot of it comes down to timing. We have hired as few as one and as many as 6 new faculty in a given year and we’re pretty incestuous. We’re always expanding, maybe there’s a retirement or one or two people move on for greener pastures/leadership jobs elsewhere.It’s pretty easy to get an academic job if intent is to just work. Pay is lower. Hours are better.
Academics is not what it was 20-25 years ago. Most Faculty almost guarantee 1 often times 2 non clinical days a week.
these days young attendings end up being worker bees in academics. 99.5% clinical. Maybe 1-2 hour non clinical time every 2 weeks and it’s crap time. Say a 230pm lecture with some med students when you are tired and don’t feel like doing it.