Pediatric Critical Care or EM post-fellowship job restrictions

[Siverhideo1985]

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Pretty specific question here: for personal reasons I am doing a bit more future planning than most 3rd years at this point probably are - my question pertains to the restrictions that being a peds EM or peds CC physician puts on possible location for jobs...will these specialties tie me to major cities for positions or are there smaller community hospitals in need of these specialties? Is there any indication of how the general job market in these fields will develop in the next 6-8 years? Any advice on these two questions would be much appreciated. Thanks!

 

[McGillGrad]

Pretty specific question here: for personal reasons I am doing a bit more future planning than most 3rd years at this point probably are - my question pertains to the restrictions that being a peds EM or peds CC physician puts on possible location for jobs...will these specialties tie me to major cities for positions or are there smaller community hospitals in need of these specialties? Is there any indication of how the general job market in these fields will develop in the next 6-8 years? Any advice on these two questions would be much appreciated. Thanks!

No, any hospital with a PICU or Peds ER will be game. The market will not shrink.

 

[Stitch]

There is and will continue to be for a bit, a shortage of both peds EM and PICU trained physicians. While peds EM as a fellowship is quite competitive, it seems everyone wants to hire more attendings. PICU match has only about a 60% fill rate so the same thing goes for critical care docs.

The majority of jobs are at academic peds hospitals, but I've been seeing more and more private and non academic positions open. It's difficult to predict the future, but I feel pretty good about job security.

 

[beatadine]

This year the number of positions filled is much larger- 87%. On the interview trail this year, a lot of programs mentioned that there were nearly two times as many candidates as usual. Let's hope the job market stays as it is.

 

[michigangirl]

Agree with most of above. But there were still a significant number of unmatched picu fellowship programs this year. The market will always be there for PICU. And you do not have to be in a large city. In fact, some of the highest paying positions are community picus. The caveat is that you work a lot and are all clinical, for the most part if you're not at an academic center. The pressures are different.

Otherwise, PICU rocks. ;-)

 

[Siverhideo1985]

Thanks for the input, it is much appreciated. I guess it is rather hard to predict what the job market will be in 5-6 years especially in specific microenviornments. I'm doing an elective in peds EM during January and I'm setting up weekend observation of one of the CC felows in our PICU.

Anyone have any advice/opinion on either one of these specialties?

Thanks for the replies!