moonlighting during residency

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Maybe this has been touched on, but does anyone have experience moonlighting during ophthalmology residency? My program has no rules against this. Urgent care? Surgical moonlighting? Optometry practices doing refraction?

 

[ophthope]

Maybe this has been touched on, but does anyone have experience moonlighting during ophthalmology residency? My program has no rules against this. Urgent care? Surgical moonlighting? Optometry practices doing refraction?

I have a feeling you'd make a lot more money moonlighting in urgent care / ER / nursing home type settings than you would doing refractions in an optometry practice. I interviewed at a couple of programs that said their residents had found some niche situations where they basically stayed overnight in case a code needed to be run or vent settings needed adjusting in a lower-acuity setting. I don't know how frequently residents did this, though.

I'd be interested in hearing some newer stories as well. I do recall a resident on here saying that he moonlit doing refractions on the weekends at a program where that gig was basically handed down from resident to resident over the years, but I don't know where that was or if it is common.