Moonlighting?

[DermDroog]

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Can Dermatology residents moonlight?

 

[Reluctant7]

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.

 

[pupster]

Can Dermatology residents moonlight?

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.

 

[dermathalon]

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.

 

[N-Surge]

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

 

[mohderm]

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

Sounds like Iowa?

 

[N-Surge]

I don't know about Iowa. It's another program I am referring too. 🙂

 

[DermDroog]

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.