Moonlighting w/ IM while in subspecialty training (fellowship)

[Eugenie98]

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Hi everyone,

I just visited a gastroenterologist who also does primary care and a question came to mind. Do MDs in a fellowship, studying an IM subspecialty such as gastro or cardio, moonlight using their IM board certification or board-eligibility?

Are they paid more than residents who moonlight (for example, FP or Peds sometimes moonlight while in their residency)? If so this would make IM and a subspecialty a bit more attractive than other specialties, because the compensation during moonlighting would help balance the extra years of low salary.

Thanks!

 

[Machiavelli]

There are definately opportunities to moonlight while doing fellowship, depending on what sorts of things you are doing from month to month. I know that where I'm at (UW-Madison) several of the fellows moonlight being in-house staff overnights at the VA and get paid pretty well to do it. No idea how their pay compares to a resident moonlighting before being BE/BC; my guess is that it's comparable but institution-specific, but that's just a guess.

Moonlighting can definately add a significant chunk of change to your wallet, although fellow+moonlighting is still going to make far less than attending-level pay.