Just wondering what some features (other than good references) that groups (both hospital-based and non-hospital) are looking for when hiring? Does a sleep fellowship make you a lot more marketable? Lots of airway experience during fellowship? QI Experience? Being able to do perc trachs?
(This is obviously for more clinically focused careers, not research)
I agree, a pulse, in general.
More and more of us don't have sleep and many established practices were set up to include sleep, so doing the extra year could be helpful, but I would say my partners who try to do all three think its hard to be *good* at all three and they tend to do CC, sleep, and *easy* pulm or the pulm+sleep cases.
Otherwise the rest or whatever you can pick up in fellowship is gravy, but may not be needed, the culture and practice environment will determine your practice. If you learned perc trachs for instance, but the surgeons do all the trachs were you are going you may find it difficult to do them for practical reasons unrelated to the procedure itself.
I think willing to work hard (when working) and easy to get along with are all big pluses.
Our two newest docs that we took out of fellowship are already both wanting to go to 0.8 FTE, which if you do the math means we basically will have an almost 0.4 FTE hole in our schedule which will need to be made up by the rest of us. That can kind be frustrating a bit because you take on new people and try to long term plan based on full time employment. Kids these days? (Get off my lawn!)
Also, no one wants a guy who *only* wants to do IP. If you can figure out how to have or make a bronch heavy practice in your community after being there that also doesn't interrupt anyone else's practice, it will be supported, but no group is going to just hand that kind of thing to anyone. We need people seeing new patient consults in the clinic and on the floor, and admitting sick patients to the ICU 24/7 and available critical care consultation to others (usually the surgical services) 24/7. In other words: marines. We need marines. We are all marines. Attempting to be a special procedure snowflake goes over about as well as a turd in a punchbowl. Don't try to be cute.
Be flexible - which doesn't mean take a job you really don't think you'll like - but there are many ways to skin a cat
Hell my group is looking for two docs, PCCM, and one Sleep doc. One position is for an intensivist, with Pulm training, but will be ICU only, no clinic. So there may be jobs like that and if you have some flexibility will make your potential choices greater.
Right now it's a buyers (applicant's) market though in general.
