Moonlighting in residency and especially fellowship?

[Maybedoc1]

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Hello all,

Current PGY1 counting down the days till I start rads residency. I’m not enjoying my prelim year and the thought of 5.5 years of residency and low pay isn’t making me feel stellar. I’m hopeful once I start radiology I’ll feel a lot better as I chose it for a reason. But I’m gonna be in my late 30s by the time I finish rads training.

Anyway I’m wondering how much people moonlit during residency to supplement income? I’m also wondering how common it is to moonlight during fellowship to really boost income? I would think as a full blown radiologist you could really increase your income that year if you wanted. I know in some residencies like psych people often moonlight a lot and make quite a bit. My program has both contrast coverage and interpretive shifts where you prelim reads. What was your experience with this?

 

[Kracin]

Extremely program dependent. Best to ask the residents of your future radiology residency.

 

[point542]

I'm making over 300 an hour right now as a resident by doing external moonlighting. The ability to do this drastically varies depending on the program and groups around you.

 

[kish180]

Highly variable.

But in most departments, internal moonlighting is mostly prelims and contrast coverage. It can be ok in pay, usually not as much as a full fledged attending moonlighting but not terrible. Usually I’ve seen pay in the range of $100-200 per hour with the low end being solely contrast coverage.

External moonlighting is a whole different beast and depends if your program even allows it or not. I have heard of external moonlighting gigs where residents are even final signing studies but don’t know how this works.

 

[odyssey2]

yeah it's hard. Once you're out rads might not be a thing anymore (literally). lol. fellowship you can make more $$ than your attendings if you want. only in radiology is this possible. Where telerads is everywhere these days. really depends on what your goals are.

If radiology isn't a thing anymore the job landscape and world are going to be so different it won't really matter anymore

 

[FireBallhs]

If radiology isn't a thing anymore the job landscape and world are going to be so different it won't really matter anymore

ya. the idea is to get as much $$ as possible and diversify so you're safe regardless.