Moonlighting in Cardiology

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I was told at the med school that after PGY1 I could moonlight at a clinic for about $40 and hour. My question is are there moonlighting opportunities once you get some training in cardiology that are more focused towards cardiology and better paying?

Futhermore, if one goes onto a fellowship such as interventional can you moonlight as a cardiologist?

Dealing with the paying back the cost of my own med school plus multiple children in college at that time is downright depressing.🙁

 

[astropilot]

At my program, the cards fellows will sometimes moonlight at a hospital in the sticks as a cards fellow - can't do any caths by themseves. They get 5K per weekend. Other than that, there are usually moonlighting opportunities in general medicine - like the ED at a VA - or even weekend coverage as a hospitalists. I was actually offered a hospitalist position for weekends only that it is supposed to work around my call weekends if I could bring other fellows along to act as a group pracitice. They were going to pay us ~80K per year. But, we still gotta stay within the 80 work week and that's the reason I didn't take them up on the offer.

 

[Myostatin]

Short answer is yes. As a 2nd +year cardiology fellow you can cover for cardiologists in private practice on weekends which can pay quite well. If this isn't enough moonlighting for you there's always hopsitalist and ER work. Some cardiology programs will pay you very well to take call. I.e. cleveland clinic and U Pitt, among others, and obviously you will be functioning as a cardiologist.

 

[dragonfly99]

What they said...
p.s. $40/hour is sucky pay...but I guess for a PGY2 it's not that bad.
Once you get a real license and finish PGY3 you can likely make $80-100/hour,if you are willing to take moonlighting gigs in the hospital, or ER, where you actually work pretty hard.