moonlighting in florida

[brodaiga]

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anyone have any contacts? Or know of other places that fly you out. I'm at a new program that does not yet have anyone moonlighting and staff is not helpful in finding profitable opportunities, thanks. I have full license, dea.

 

[vistaril]

anyone have any contacts? Or know of other places that fly you out. I'm at a new program that does not yet have anyone moonlighting and staff is not helpful in finding profitable opportunities, thanks. I have full license, dea.

fly you out??? I don't think the situation is such that they are going to need to fly people in....I'd try to make contacts within a driving radius(2 hrs)....if nothing is open, nothing is open. Moonlighters don't provide a skill set necessitating flying people in....if they got that desperate they would almost certainly just up their offer to attract local pp psychiatrists......

 

[brodaiga]

fly you out??? I don't think the situation is such that they are going to need to fly people in....I'd try to make contacts within a driving radius(2 hrs)....if nothing is open, nothing is open. Moonlighters don't provide a skill set necessitating flying people in....if they got that desperate they would almost certainly just up their offer to attract local pp psychiatrists......

you don't know what you are talking about. My acquitance found a gig in Pensacola that is flying him out and paying him $2100 a weekend. Though, he is fellow and they required 4 years done. I called one staffing company on Friday and they mentioned they fly people out and help them apply for out of state license if need be. So, anyone else, anywhere else in the country, that knows of any opportunities, please pm me. I will be calling staffing companies for now.

 

[OldPsychDoc]

you don't know what you are talking about. My acquitance found a gig in Pensacola that is flying him out and paying him $2100 a weekend. Though, he is fellow and they required 4 years done. I called one staffing company on Friday and they mentioned they fly people out and help them apply for out of state license if need be. So, anyone else, anywhere else in the country, that knows of any opportunities, please pm me. I will be calling staffing companies for now.

My guess would be that you won't find similar gigs unless you, too, are Board Eligible (i.e. 4 years complete.) The staffing agencies are probably looking for locum tenens docs--short term placements, not so much a temporary weekend job. But I could be wrong...one of our past residents would "get flown out" to a Native American reservation for the weekend, but clearly that was to fill a desperately underserved community.

 

[TexasPhysician]

I've got a friend who is flown out to CA for weekends, but they aren't hiring or I'd be on it. 🙁

 

[vistaril]

you don't know what you are talking about. My acquitance found a gig in Pensacola that is flying him out and paying him $2100 a weekend. Though, he is fellow and they required 4 years done. I called one staffing company on Friday and they mentioned they fly people out and help them apply for out of state license if need be. So, anyone else, anywhere else in the country, that knows of any opportunities, please pm me. I will be calling staffing companies for now.

lmfao....think about it. Why in the world would they go through the trouble of flying out a pgy2-3(even pgy4 or fellow) on a weekend flight and back *and* dealing with out of state licensing issues and such when they could just pay a local person who is already BE/BC a little more and still save money vs the expense and inconvenience of such flights and out of state issues.

People get 'flown out' to do lots of things......special/niche things that require a unique skill set in certain areas where it is impossible to find that. Having a resident(or even someone out of residency) hold down the fort for routine inpatient psych weekends is most definately *not* one of those things.

2100 for the inpt weekend sounds about right(depending on what it requires it may be worth a little more or a little less), but these places certainly would just up their offers to local people(residents and people out of residency) within a 2-3 hour radius rather than fly people all across the country to do a job that doesn't exactly require a unique skill set.

 

[notdeadyet]

lmfao....think about it. ...
2100 for the inpt weekend sounds about right(depending on what it requires it may be worth a little more or a little less), but these places certainly would just up their offers to local people(residents and people out of residency) within a 2-3 hour radius rather than fly people all across the country to do a job that doesn't exactly require a unique skill set.

Offers like these are rare, but not unheard of. Certainly nothing to lyfao over.

I'm doing a gig moonlighting gig that offers a travel differential to cover the cost of flights or however you want to get to their location. I'm not BE and it's for an inpatient moonlighting gig.

My assumption is that they could not recruit locally even at their high rates of payment, so they tossed in the travel costs (which includes hotel) to incent folks.

I wouldn't think this is a common occurrence, but they're obviously out there. Just because you haven't come across it personally doesn't mean it's not there...

 

[vistaril]

Offers like these are rare, but not unheard of. Certainly nothing to lyfao over.

I'm doing a gig moonlighting gig that offers a travel differential to cover the cost of flights or however you want to get to their location. I'm not BE and it's for an inpatient moonlighting gig.

My assumption is that they could not recruit locally even at their high rates of payment, so they tossed in the travel costs (which includes hotel) to incent folks.

I wouldn't think this is a common occurrence, but they're obviously out there. Just because you haven't come across it personally doesn't mean it's not there...

hotel is common...I've done several like that before. After all, you usually have to stay there within easy distance of the ward/hospital. Flight is definately not common.

Again, my point was that being a weekend inpatient moonlighter for psych is not a unique or hard to find skill set.

 

[notdeadyet]

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[Drsingh123]

Hi, how are you? I am in Miami and looking to Moonlight. I would really appreciate the help.

 

[yanks26dmb]

Is it common for docs to do something like this but with locums after residency? It'd be nice to take a big city job working 30 to 40 hours a week then tack on another 20 or so by heading out to an under-served area a few hours away.

 

[Rogue Penguin]

lmfao....think about it. Why in the world would they go through the trouble of flying out a pgy2-3(even pgy4 or fellow) on a weekend flight and back *and* dealing with out of state licensing issues and such when they could just pay a local person who is already BE/BC a little more and still save money vs the expense and inconvenience of such flights and out of state issues.

People get 'flown out' to do lots of things......special/niche things that require a unique skill set in certain areas where it is impossible to find that. Having a resident(or even someone out of residency) hold down the fort for routine inpatient psych weekends is most definately *not* one of those things.

2100 for the inpt weekend sounds about right(depending on what it requires it may be worth a little more or a little less), but these places certainly would just up their offers to local people(residents and people out of residency) within a 2-3 hour radius rather than fly people all across the country to do a job that doesn't exactly require a unique skill set.

A hospital in Fargo pays for flights every weekend for a University of Louisville resident (PGY3-4) to come staff the hospital over the weekend. On top of that they pay the resident like $3000 (I've forgotten the exact number). Rural places where no one wants to live have a hard time getting coverage if their one regular psychiatrist needs time off. Small-ish towns in the rural Kentucky (Hazard) have similar problems. No one has been busting their ass for 8+ years to go live in Hazard, KY with crappy community resources. I can only imagine that the same is true of Fargo. Laugh all you want, but opportunities like this are out there.

 

[keifernny2]

First thought that comes to my mind is. ... How long are you spending on a plane and is that time being compensated? Ie: if you're traveling 8 hours each way to work a 48 hr shift you should be sure to include that in your denominator per hour, because time is money. Not saying not to do it, but keep it in mind.


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[Doctor Bagel]

A hospital in Fargo pays for flights every weekend for a University of Louisville resident (PGY3-4) to come staff the hospital over the weekend. On top of that they pay the resident like $3000 (I've forgotten the exact number). Rural places where no one wants to live have a hard time getting coverage if their one regular psychiatrist needs time off. Small-ish towns in the rural Kentucky (Hazard) have similar problems. No one has been busting their ass for 8+ years to go live in Hazard, KY with crappy community resources. I can only imagine that the same is true of Fargo. Laugh all you want, but opportunities like this are out there.

I think you'd have to pay more than that to make it worthwhile. You can make that much moonlighting an hour away from the city I did residency in without a flight, etc.. I'm also assuming it's not that easy to fly between Louisville and Fargo -- no direct flights, weather delays, etc..