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Please see the General Residency FAQs sticky on page 6, starting with post #105 for some of the answers to your questions.
Generally speaking you cannot moonlight as a PGY-1. To moonlight outside your training institution you need a full medical license and AFAIK no state currently will approve a full license without at least one complete year of residency training. There may be some opportunities within your institution but in my experience they pay considerably less than outside moonlighting.
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You can't get a license before completing PGY 1 so your options are very limited. You couldn't do anything clinical. You could do research, chart review, etc.
EM Interns at the University of Chicago are allowed to moonlight in fast-track as PGY-1's. It pays is $50/hr...
Yale allows interns to moonlight in the ED. It's pretty much just like a standard teaching shift (you still check out to a senior resident and attending). The going rate is $65/hour for a 12-hour shift.
doc05 said:
Da MONEY!
Seriously, I spoke to one intern (UConn?...somewhere along the interview trail) and he's made $4000 moonlighting. A 3rd yr had made double that with this one sweet deal through his school where he sat in the back room of an imaging facility and studied/slept/whatever. They needed an MD "on-site" in case of emergency. He was making over $10K.
Anesthesia residents at wake can sit/sleep in community hospital call rooms all night for around $60/hr. Same deal... they just need an MD in house in case of an emergency. Basically they are paid ~$700 to sleep in a hospital bed for a night!
