post-residency questions

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I have some questions directed toward those with experience in the private practice world. My scenario is this: I'll be finishing my residency in a year and would like to enter into private practice, primarily looking in the southwest (Arizona, Nevada, California). However, my significant other will have an additional year of residency here in the midwest, and may or may enter into a multiple-year fellowship afterward wherever she happens to get in. So my questions are these...
1) Would a group even consider hiring someone who may or may not have to leave after only a year (to follow her toward her fellowship destination)?
2) Is it best to be honest about these types of personal issues throughout the application/interview process (I assume it is)?
3) Does doing a year of locum tenems just after residency hurt your chances of being hired by a group thereafter?

Thanks in advance!

 

[jetproppilot]

I have some questions directed toward those with experience in the private practice world. My scenario is this: I'll be finishing my residency in a year and would like to enter into private practice, primarily looking in the southwest (Arizona, Nevada, California). However, my significant other will have an additional year of residency here in the midwest, and may or may enter into a multiple-year fellowship afterward wherever she happens to get in. So my questions are these...
1) Would a group even consider hiring someone who may or may not have to leave after only a year (to follow her toward her fellowship destination)?
2) Is it best to be honest about these types of personal issues throughout the application/interview process (I assume it is)?
3) Does doing a year of locum tenems just after residency hurt your chances of being hired by a group thereafter?

Thanks in advance!

Chances are you can find work wherever you want. Check out the groups where your SO is finishing training. I'd be very up front with a group, explain your personal scenerio....I've learned the significance of not burning bridges....they could probably use your services, even if its only for a year or so.

Alternatively, locums is an option as well. Doesnt hurt your chances at all of getting hired once you know where you're gonna end up.

Be honest about your scenerio and you'll shine.

Good luck.

 

[rainking]

I have some questions directed toward those with experience in the private practice world. My scenario is this: I'll be finishing my residency in a year and would like to enter into private practice, primarily looking in the southwest (Arizona, Nevada, California). However, my significant other will have an additional year of residency here in the midwest, and may or may enter into a multiple-year fellowship afterward wherever she happens to get in. So my questions are these...
1) Would a group even consider hiring someone who may or may not have to leave after only a year (to follow her toward her fellowship destination)?
2) Is it best to be honest about these types of personal issues throughout the application/interview process (I assume it is)?
3) Does doing a year of locum tenems just after residency hurt your chances of being hired by a group thereafter?

Thanks in advance!

hey man

if you dont know where you are going to be.. just locum.. it would suck getting into a partnership track working for significantly less money for two years and then having to leave..and start over somewhere else.. or just take a job that does not have a partnership track that pays you fair market value salary.. the partnership track your pay will be significantly less then fair market value.. goodluck

 

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Thanks for the advice! These are the kinds of things those of us soon to be entering into the job search need to know, but don't always know where to get the info.

In continuing on this topic, can anyone further explain the differences encountered (pay, vacation, job security, etc.) in entering into a group on a partnership track vs. the "fair market value" mentioned in the earlier reply?