MedStudent0005
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Hello everyone,
I have been looking into which specialties have the most opportunities for part-time work and out of the commonly listed ones I am most interested in family medicine and pathology. I am much older than the average student and do not want to go into a high stress/high hours field such as EM, due to personal health concerns. Ideally after residency work 20-30 hours per week. I have not done any pathology rotations yet, but I would like to get feedback from people already in this field about what type of part-time positions are available in pathology. Here are some questions:
1) Threads asking about this state that pathology offers a lot of "shift work", what do pathologists do during this type of work and is this more for anatomical or clinical or both?
2) Is shift work mainly at hospitals or is it at private practice laboratories?
3) Obviously working part-time will lower salary due to working less hours, but would you expect a significant pay decrease per hour worked?
4) Is the job market for part-time pathologists even worse compared to full-time? Would large hospitals hire part-time pathologists if they were willing to take a somewhat reduced hourly salary?
5) (question for both pt and ft positions) For pathologists nearing the end of residency, it is easy to get a job at a large hospital in the location of their choice and all the job market crique on these forums is mostly for difficulty finding private practice positions? Do all pathologists really need to do a fellowship before finding a job? Do academic positions pay much less than private practice and this is why people complain about the job market on forums?
Thank you all for reading and leaving feedback.
I have been looking into which specialties have the most opportunities for part-time work and out of the commonly listed ones I am most interested in family medicine and pathology. I am much older than the average student and do not want to go into a high stress/high hours field such as EM, due to personal health concerns. Ideally after residency work 20-30 hours per week. I have not done any pathology rotations yet, but I would like to get feedback from people already in this field about what type of part-time positions are available in pathology. Here are some questions:
1) Threads asking about this state that pathology offers a lot of "shift work", what do pathologists do during this type of work and is this more for anatomical or clinical or both?
2) Is shift work mainly at hospitals or is it at private practice laboratories?
3) Obviously working part-time will lower salary due to working less hours, but would you expect a significant pay decrease per hour worked?
4) Is the job market for part-time pathologists even worse compared to full-time? Would large hospitals hire part-time pathologists if they were willing to take a somewhat reduced hourly salary?
5) (question for both pt and ft positions) For pathologists nearing the end of residency, it is easy to get a job at a large hospital in the location of their choice and all the job market crique on these forums is mostly for difficulty finding private practice positions? Do all pathologists really need to do a fellowship before finding a job? Do academic positions pay much less than private practice and this is why people complain about the job market on forums?
Thank you all for reading and leaving feedback.