Part-time attending jobs?

[Medschoolready95]

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I am an incoming non-trad MS1 interested in having a family at some point during my training. While I know my life as a trainee + mom is going to be very stressful, what keeps me wanting to pursue medicine is that as an attending, I will be able to work part-time and be there for my kids as they grow. I am interested in becoming an internist and/or IM sub-specialist. My question is: how easy is it to find part-time jobs as an attending? Are there certain less-demanding specialties that will allow me to dictate my hours?

 

[jurassicpark]

for IM, you will always be able to find a locums job or something. The question being is how far sometimes you would be willing to go, and not always having a steady amount of days of work.

For example, Hospitalist positions are always available, but usually it's the more little out of way hospitals that are hungry for extra bodies.

 

[Meridian32]

I'm currently a part-time hospitalist, working 135 days/year with vacation the rest of the time, and it's great. I'm doing this as a gap year between internal medicine residency and fellowship, partly to decompress and partly to spend more time with family. The position was easy to find because the large academic hospital I work at regularly hires its own residency graduates for gap year hospitalist positions. The caveats are that I don't know how generalizable my experience is; it may be harder to negotiate this sort of arrangement in a smaller hospital and/or area; and hospitalist schedules are irregular, so I work a decent number of weekends and holidays (but, fortunately, no nights).

 

[Moko]

You'll be able to find a part time job as an attending, at least in hospital medicine. You may need to sacrifice pay, convenience (location), and/or be flexible with regards to working weekends and/or nights. Having someone work part-time would mean needing to pay fewer moonlighters. Academic centers often are looking.

 

[Medschoolready95]

Thanks for all your responses! This info is helpful to know.