Moonlighting as an internist - During PGY 3/4 Neurology Residency

[ButIwantneuro]

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Has anyone done this? There are not many moonlighting opportunities as a Neurologist in my neck of the woods....was wondering if anyone moonlights as an internist - technically you need only to finish 1 year of medicine to moonlight.

 

[typhoonegator]

Sure, I know a bunch of people that did moonlighting on the low-risk ROMI service. That's internist work. Or did you mean like a doc-in-the-box place as an outpatient provider? That I've never seen.

 

[vistaril]

Sure, I know a bunch of people that did moonlighting on the low-risk ROMI service. That's internist work. Or did you mean like a doc-in-the-box place as an outpatient provider? That I've never seen.

I'm almost positive he means just picking up shifts to do hospitalist medicine type work.

 

[ButIwantneuro]

Yeah, just picking up hospitalist shifts - like urgent care, or random nights at a community hospital.

PS: What is ROMI?

 

[typhoonegator]

Rule Out Myocardial Infarction. ROMI. Like, babysit people while we wait for TnT x 3 to come back negative with serial EKGs and maybe an echo in the AM if they stratify. These days some EDs can just OBS these folks, but not everywhere. And in some places they OBS the gimmies and admit (to you) the ones that are more concerning. Not bad work for moonlighting, but it tends to be slow and steady all night long, which is why they have to hire you rather than have someone else do it.

 

[neurodoc]

The AAN is currently involved in an effort to convince our ACA politicians that neurologists should be somehow
considered to be Primary Care Providers...

For what it's worth, we are considered to be "physicians" and the ABPN does require that we do at last one year
of PGY training in IM.

 

[NurWollen]

The AAN is currently involved in an effort to convince our ACA politicians that neurologists should be somehow
considered to be Primary Care Providers...

For what it's worth, we are considered to be "physicians" and the ABPN does require that we do at last one year
of PGY training in IM.

I'm just an MS1 but I'm curious. Isn't anyone with a med school diploma and a medical license considered a 'physician,' in a general sense (as opposed to the more specific usage meaning an internist?). Or was this your point?