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VA docs, it's been a while since I rotated through VA in residency and most of that was inpatient and ER. I did a rotation in med school with an outpatient VA doc but that would've been around 2012-2013 so it's been a minute. How many patients do you see on a typical day? When I rotated there it was 1 hour intakes and 30 minutes for follow ups as well. I've considered working for the VA in the past as I am prior Air Force and could use my active duty time for pension etc and am aware VA typically has great benefits. I'm happy with my current gig but just curious about other opportunities out there.

 

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Sounds about right. Schedules vary from 5-8's, 4-10's and then like 9 hour days with one day off every other week. Typically you get about 20% admin time, so you can sort of do the math for how many patients you might see. Resident supervision changes things too. Indeed the benefits are quite a lot. And of course outpatient isn't the only option. They often have CL/ED, inpatient and primary care integration jobs available too. Heck some have IOP/PHPs. Almost every VA has prescriber positions available as well, even with the recent switch to billets that might have impacted other types of providers. Any open prescriber positions were highly prioritized for maintaining. That said, listings got really messed up (read: lost) recently, so you may have to reach out directly to an internal VA physician recruiter (not locums). Don't rely solely on whatever is specifically listed on usajobs.gov. You are very correct about your active duty time counting towards your pension.