How much to charge for giving lectures?

[mathrap22]

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Hey everybody,

How much do you all think is a fair hourly rate to charge for time to prepare a lecture and time to give the lecture? In this potential opportunity, some lectures would be given to Psychiatry residents and others would be given to medical students. Thanks in advance for all of your advice.

 

[hamstergang]

I give 2 lectures per year for free to the residency I graduated from. Otherwise, start negotiations at your clinical hourly rate, but the school/program may already have some approved price.

 

[SmallBird]

I give 2 lectures per year for free to the residency I graduated from. Otherwise, start negotiations at your clinical hourly rate, but the school/program may already have some approved price.

Is this a common thing to be able to do? I’ve only ever gotten paid for lectures either by organizations that sell their content, or as part of an academic ‘carve out’ for an academic appointment.

 

[TexasPhysician]

Free for local academia.

$1000+ elsewhere

 

[PsyDr]

Ask what their honorarium is. They should have a line item in the budget for it.

 

[Celexa]

Hey everybody,

How much do you all think is a fair hourly rate to charge for time to prepare a lecture and time to give the lecture? In this potential opportunity, some lectures would be given to Psychiatry residents and others would be given to medical students. Thanks in advance for all of your advice.

Some places are generous with volunteer faculty designations that come with library access, which can be a very nice way to be reimbursed for things like this as having access to those resources is hard as a community practitioner. More common if you're doing something like 1 hr/week supervising a resident or something but just throwing that out there.

As definitionally underpaid teaching faculty I give what feels like an infinite number of lectures (internally) without additional compensation so I am curious what people say but have little otherwise to add in terms of numbers

 

[tr]

As definitionally underpaid teaching faculty I give what feels like an infinite number of lectures (internally) without additional compensation so I am curious what people say but have little otherwise to add in terms of numbers

Same. I'm surprised at this too. Between teaching faculty, volunteer/adjunct faculty, and other alums, my impression is that most programs have enough people willing to do lectures for free that I've never heard of them actually paying for the service. More power to OP for managing to extract an offer of compensation.

 

[splik]

I used to get paid to teach med students in Australia. This was between 2010-2012. At that time I was paid 140 AUD/hr with 1hr for lecture time and 3hrs for preparation from what I recall. I've never been paid to give talks to students or residents in the US (I guess technically as faculty one gets paid but I would say it was never compensated).

When I give talks for things like grand rounds or invited talks for conferences and CME there is typically an honoraria which is something in the range of $1000-3000, though usually there are things like flights and travel expenses, per diem etc. Though a lot of that went away with the pandemic and many things transitioning to virtual. Some physicians charge 5 figures per talk on the lecture circuit.

For teaching students and residents, it is usually in a voluntary capacity. If there is money available, I would ask what the budget is and then go from there. I would consider it more of an honorarium than being expected to pay your full clinical rate. There is probably only a little room for negotation. Nowadays many people crowd source resources and many people are willing to give their time for free or low cost for this.

I give some talks for free in some different neurology fellowships. It pays for itself in terms of referrals even years later. I also like doing it.

 

[Stagg737]

Hey everybody,

How much do you all think is a fair hourly rate to charge for time to prepare a lecture and time to give the lecture? In this potential opportunity, some lectures would be given to Psychiatry residents and others would be given to medical students. Thanks in advance for all of your advice.

Where I did residency and where I currently work would not pay to give med student or resident lectures. Both have plenty of staff volunteering to give lectures. Grand rounds may be different, but I’ve never heard of someone getting paid just to give regular didactics to residents. Maybe med students if it’s a DO school without an associated teaching hospital with clinical faculty.

 

[comp1]

This is not something typically paid for in anything other than library access and a line item on your CV. I'm sure it happens somewhere (Australia apparently), but it's so rare that I don't think you can get real advice on payment. This is different than a grand rounds. Some universities do have a (very limited) budget for honoraria for grand rounds, particularly for high profile visitors...but not for teaching med students what a MSE is, sorry. Any academic hospital will just have their own salaried staff give a lecture if they can't get volunteers, but they usually can get plenty of volunteers. I think they are going to stare at you blankly if you come in with a money ask, but I guess you can try. I imagine it's more of an effort just to get you a check than it'd be worth to them, regardless of amount.

 

[mathrap22]

Thanks for everyone's insight. I take it an offer for $100 per hour, with 2 hours of billable prep allowed for the 1 hour lectures (so potential for $300 per lecture) sounds pretty good then?

 

[TexasPhysician]

Thanks for everyone's insight. I take it an offer for $100 per hour, with 2 hours of billable prep allowed for the 1 hour lectures (so potential for $300 per lecture) sounds pretty good then?

If for students and residents in my area, it is quite high and wouldn’t be accepted. If this is already accepted in another region, you are getting paid quite well for this.

 

[dl2dp2]

Teaching residents typically doesn't pay.

Teaching industry groups can pay well. Usual consulting fees.