Malignant Heme Job Question

[penguindude]

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I am trying to choose my first job out of fellowship. I see myself as primarily a clinician rather than educator or researcher but would like to maintain a focus in malignant heme because I find it more interesting than solid tumor. I recognize it is much harder to find positions in malignant heme outside of academics, but I would like to keep hybrid/ PP options open in the future. Would it be unwise to choose a disease focus (ie myeloma, lymphoma, or leuk etc) early on? Would it be better to get exposure to BMT with work so that I can more easily find another job in the future? If I'm stuck in academics, is there anything I could do to improve my earning salary-wise -- ie- do some academic places need clinic focused roles where I could potentially just do clinic 4x week and get a better salary? Any other helpful tips you might have about picking a first job would be very welcome.

 

[Ubba]

I am trying to choose my first job out of fellowship. I see myself as primarily a clinician rather than educator or researcher but would like to maintain a focus in malignant heme because I find it more interesting than solid tumor. I recognize it is much harder to find positions in malignant heme outside of academics, but I would like to keep hybrid/ PP options open in the future. Would it be unwise to choose a disease focus (ie myeloma, lymphoma, or leuk etc) early on? Would it be better to get exposure to BMT with work so that I can more easily find another job in the future? If I'm stuck in academics, is there anything I could do to improve my earning salary-wise -- ie- do some academic places need clinic focused roles where I could potentially just do clinic 4x week and get a better salary? Any other helpful tips you might have about picking a first job would be very welcome.

There are PP jobs that would love to have you join so they can shunt malignant heme cases to you. There are also a number of both PP and system-employed non-academic practices that do transplant, Car T, etc. Include your interest in the heading of your CV. You'll get bites.

 

[penguindude]

There are PP jobs that would love to have you join so they can shunt malignant heme cases to you. There are also a number of both PP and system-employed non-academic practices that do transplant, Car T, etc. Include your interest in the heading of your CV. You'll get bites.

Thanks for your response, Ubba. When I had been checking on NEJM, ASH and ASCO job listings, I was only able to find a small handful of academic places that needed transplant or CAR-T. Most of the non-academic or hybrid places on the job listings were looking for mostly onc or 50:50 heme/onc jobs. Recruiters weren't very helpful either. But I might be doing my search wrong. If you have any suggestions of how to redirect my search, I am all ears!

 

[HemeOncHopeful19]

Thanks for your response, Ubba. When I had been checking on NEJM, ASH and ASCO job listings, I was only able to find a small handful of academic places that needed transplant or CAR-T. Most of the non-academic or hybrid places on the job listings were looking for mostly onc or 50:50 heme/onc jobs. Recruiters weren't very helpful either. But I might be doing my search wrong. If you have any suggestions of how to redirect my search, I am all ears!

PP jobs that do transplant and CAR-T you may have to ask around on the forums and wait for someone to tell you the big groups. I will also say my guess is that they typically prefer to hire someone with experience but I don't know that for sure.

For pure PP jobs you would be best off (IMO) googling "XYZ city + cancer clinic" and looking up private groups individually. PP doesn't usually have the $$$ to spend advertising on NEJM/ASH/ASCO. You could also look at US Oncology job postings and see if any of them mention a malignant heme focus (might be rare but if you truly want to do it and would move anywhere you might find the one or two jobs that are looking for this).

 

[Ubba]

Thanks for your response, Ubba. When I had been checking on NEJM, ASH and ASCO job listings, I was only able to find a small handful of academic places that needed transplant or CAR-T. Most of the non-academic or hybrid places on the job listings were looking for mostly onc or 50:50 heme/onc jobs. Recruiters weren't very helpful either. But I might be doing my search wrong. If you have any suggestions of how to redirect my search, I am all ears!

I agree with the US Oncology tip. Also reach out to healthcare systems (e.g., in the Midwest) with multiple locations. Many of them are looking for malignant heme-focused docs.

Sign up to PracticeLink and PracticeMatch, too. They have postings that aren't on the sites you listed.

 

[gutonc]

I agree with the US Oncology tip. Also reach out to healthcare systems (e.g., in the Midwest) with multiple locations. Many of them are looking for malignant heme-focused docs.

Intermountain Health (Mountain West), Sutter (CA), Providence (PNW/AK/MT/TX) and Kaiser are among many large health systems nationwide that are going to have locations where they need or want Heme Mal/BMT/Cellular Therapy docs. Most of them (except Kaiser) are going to pay roughly median salaries for generally reasonable workloads.

 

[sloh]

Intermountain Health (Mountain West), Sutter (CA), Providence (PNW/AK/MT/TX) and Kaiser are among many large health systems nationwide that are going to have locations where they need or want Heme Mal/BMT/Cellular Therapy docs. Most of them (except Kaiser) are going to pay roughly median salaries for generally reasonable workloads.

Kaiser lower?

 

[gutonc]

Kaiser lower?

Typically.