How possible to get a part-time job after residency?

[RedPeony]

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I'm an MS2 very interested in anesthesiology after a few shadowing experiences. I know that residency will be around 60-70 hrs per week, but afterwards how possible is it to get a part-time job (I guess 30-40 hrs per week) in a mid-sized city? I have children and it would be great to be home with them more often. I'm okay with doing holidays, nights, and weekends as needed, I would just love to be limited in my overall hours. I (obviously) haven't yet decided about fellowship; I'm thinking a peds fellowship would be the most interesting to me.

Also, in both residency and practice when one is on call is it usually something like 6am to 7am the next day (around 24 hrs), or is it ever 36 hr hospital calls like in some other specialties or weird starting hrs like ER shiftwork can be? Finally, is there a research component to an anesthesiology residency? If so, how many months does it tend to be? Thanks so much!!

 

[cincincyreds]

I'm an MS2 very interested in anesthesiology after a few shadowing experiences. I know that residency will be around 60-70 hrs per week, but afterwards how possible is it to get a part-time job (I guess 30-40 hrs per week) in a mid-sized city? I have children and it would be great to be home with them more often. I'm okay with doing holidays, nights, and weekends as needed, I would just love to be limited in my overall hours. I (obviously) haven't yet decided about fellowship; I'm thinking a peds fellowship would be the most interesting to me.

Also, in both residency and practice when one is on call is it usually something like 6am to 7am the next day (around 24 hrs), or is it ever 36 hr hospital calls like in some other specialties or weird starting hrs like ER shiftwork can be? Finally, is there a research component to an anesthesiology residency? If so, how many months does it tend to be? Thanks so much!!

I'm sure you could find an ambulatory center working 3 days a week 7-5. You would probably make about 125k-150k or so, but if you just need the benefits and a little bit of cash that could be fine.

 

[leaverus]

Also, in both residency and practice when one is on call is it usually something like 6am to 7am the next day (around 24 hrs), or is it ever 36 hr hospital calls like in some other specialties or weird starting hrs like ER shiftwork can be? Finally, is there a research component to an anesthesiology residency? If so, how many months does it tend to be? Thanks so much!!

In residency you go home at 7am, so it's only 24hrs. In private practice it varies depending on the group. Some groups make the post-call person work the next day and that might be anywhere from an hour of work to working all day if it's busy; other groups may have a system where the post-call guy leaves at 7 as in residency. And it doesn't necessarily have to be in-house call, you can go home (and be within 30mins) if the hospital you are at does not provide certain services such as OB, Level I Trauma, etc.

I believe the RRC (residency review committee) does have a research requirement for anesthesia residents but it's pretty minimal - so amount of research done depends on whether you want to and where you train.

As for part-time they are definitely available and not just the ambulatory care ones. Depending on where you are, it's possible to find part-time work in a hospital that does all types of cases.

 

[RedPeony]

Thanks so much for the replies thus far! Good to know part time is available (that is the impression I've gotten from attendings saying that anesthesia is "mommy-friendly"). I would definitely like to work in a place I can do some high-acuity work, so at this time I'm not sure if an outpatient surgery center would be my ideal (and I'm not sure that they even do most pediatric surgeries in outpatient centers, could be wrong).

 

[ssmallz]

Thanks so much for the replies thus far! Good to know part time is available (that is the impression I've gotten from attendings saying that anesthesia is "mommy-friendly"). I would definitely like to work in a place I can do some high-acuity work, so at this time I'm not sure if an outpatient surgery center would be my ideal (and I'm not sure that they even do most pediatric surgeries in outpatient centers, could be wrong).

Part time work is always available, just not always when you want it to be. Wanna pick up a few 24 hour OB calls? Plenty of docs wouldn't mind getting rid of em, weekend work? Sure no problem. Wanna work christmas? Labor day? Thanxgiving? Plenty of work to be found. Wanna work 7-5 during the week? That might be a problem. See if you're not working full time, you're not going to get preference so you're going to end up working when other people don't want to work, otherwise they just use the regulars. You of course will have control over when you work or not but don't expect too many of those nice 7-5 days w/5 or 6 cushy cases.