Can Dermatology residents moonlight?
Moonlighting?
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Have met residents who moonlighted (moonlit?), either in a general medicine role or in a dermatology role. Some programs have weekend clinics within the dept that pay resident volunteers (either gen derm or cosmetics). Some programs permit it but discourage it. Others prohibit it.
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Our program "strongly discourages" it. If you do moonlight, you cannot moonlight as a dermatologist, and if you get < 50% on the most recent intraining, then you can't moonlight at all. You also have to have your own full license, malpractice, and DEA # for when you moonlight.
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Yes derm residents can moonlight but it depends by program. And yes, they can moonlight as dermatologists and that too depends from program to program. You do need a DEA#, license, and your own malpractice insurance, but if the state already requires a DEA# and a license to prescribe medications, you're 2/3 there.
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Sure. I know of a program that has at least 3 different "moonlighting" options, as a Dermatologist.
1. VA Saturday Dermatology clinics
2. ID clinic
3. Urgent Care Clinic for Occupational Dermatology
1. VA Saturday Dermatology clinics
2. ID clinic
3. Urgent Care Clinic for Occupational Dermatology
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I don't know about Iowa. It's another program I am referring too. 
Thanks for the insight. I've heard rumors from classmates in the other specialties of Moonlighting opportunities that are absurdly generous, somewhere in the ball park of 80 - 200+/hr in rural areas. If there is even a shred of truth to that it will go along way towards helping to pay off some of these draconian loans.
