Is this right?

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Even though I'm not even yet a resident, I made a mistake of signing up on locum tenens to test out waters of the type of jobs i could get for neurology.

in the past couple of days i've literally got dozens of phone calls and e-mails, including one that i'm posting below. I'm so flooded that I had to change my contact on locum tenens and block e-mails from there.

seems like private practice neurology job market is really good right now. Does this sound right? I mean I know it is 1:3 call...

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Neurology

$389,748 Midwestern Neurology



The Practice:

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Full Scope Neurology Practice Waiting No Ramp-Up
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1:3 Relaxed Call Schedule - 250,000 Draw Area
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Multiple Setting Options - Employee, Solo, or Partner
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Stroke Training / Interest a Plus
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Academics Available, Clinical Trials, Supportive Administration
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Can Accommodate Visa Candidates, Loan Repayment Options

The Community:

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"One of the Top Towns" - Parade Magazine
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Small Town Atmosphere with Big City Amenities
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4 Major Metros within 200 Miles, Regional Airport
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University Town / High School Top 100 in Nation
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Affordable Housing / Low Cost-of-Living / Low Crime / Low Unemployment
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Lakes and Rivers, National Forests, State Parks
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Symphony, Ballet, Auditoriums, Fine Dining, Shopping

 

[OB/Gyn Kenobi]

Yes and no.

I would translate as follows:

$389,748 Midwestern Neurology = $120,000-$389,748 Small Town Midwest, possibly quite remote, Neurology

1:3 Relaxed Call Schedule = 1:3 "relaxed" call schedule. heh.

250,000 Draw Area = referrals from podunk towns from all over the place

Stroke Training / Interest a Plus = Practice looking for someone to take all their overnight t-PA calls and suffer from low reimbursement.

4 Major Metros within 200 Miles, Regional Airport = almost 200 miles from any major city, rinky dink airport

 

[neurologist]

Pretty good translation, OB. Recruiting ads are meant to get your attention, so, yeah, most of them seem too good to be true.


Here's my parsing of this particular ad:

Neurology

Chronic pain patients in clinic all day, stroke patients in ER all night.

$389,748 Midwestern Neurology

Actually, the $300K+ salary is do-able in the midwest, not even necessarily in a "middle of nowhere" setting. Most likely you'd either be working like a dog in a small practice, or you'll have a partnership in a large practice that has it's own MRI , sleep lab, or other revenue-generating operations.

1:3 Relaxed Call Schedule; Stroke Training / Interest a Plus

1:3 call? Hell, I never even did that as an intern -- what's so relaxed about that? My bias when job hunting was not to even consider anything more frequent than 1:5 or 1:6. I like sleep. And as the other poster pointed out, an ad that combines the phrases "1:3 call" and "stroke training" is basically an ad for a sucker.

Multiple Setting Options - Employee, Solo, or Partner

They are desperate for anyone to work for them in any manner possible.

Can Accommodate Visa Candidates, Loan Repayment Options

The phrase "can accomodate visa candidates" speaks to the general remoteness and/or undesirability of the area.

The Community:

"One of the Top Towns" - Parade Magazine
Small Town Atmosphere with Big City Amenities
4 Major Metros within 200 Miles, Regional Airport
University Town / High School Top 100 in Nation
Affordable Housing / Low Cost-of-Living / Low Crime / Low Unemployment
Lakes and Rivers, National Forests, State Parks
Symphony, Ballet, Auditoriums, Fine Dining, Shopping

It's always fun to try to figure out where exactly these are. Occasionally I'd make a guess and then call the headhunter to see if I was right. I'd guess this one is somewhere in Minnesota or the Dakotas, and the "4 major metros" are Minneapolis, Fargo, Sioux Falls and Bismark.

Keep in mind that "low housing costs, low crime, low unemployment, low cost of living" are easy to achieve if nobody lives there to begin with . . .

Caveat emptor . . .