Private practice peds specialties?

[diamonddoc]

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Would anyone have any idea which of the peds specialties would allow you the opportunity to open your own practice?
Thanks.

 

[HiFi]

Originally posted by diamonddoc
Would anyone have any idea which of the peds specialties would allow you the opportunity to open your own practice?
Thanks.

copy of a PM I sent somebody for a similar question
you can have an office in anything you want, provided you have the money to set one up and can get hospital priviliges.

HOWEVER, you won't make any money.
The reason is this : Most cities have a finite number of children that need a subspecialist, and generally there are established groups already in place that get the referrals from the pediatricians.

you can't just go and put an ad in the yellow pages and do echocardiograms.....well you could I suppose, but you won't get any patients.....therefore you will either get a job in an academic department where your "office" will likely be in a medical school or at a hospital. Alternatively you will join an established private subspecialty practice, or a multispecialty group.

Allergy/immunulogy, cardiology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, neurology are the major specialties where you find a lot of private practice docs.

pulmonologists are usually associated with a medical school.
neonatologists : My office is the NICU.
peds critical : Dittos PICU
peds ER Dittos ER

there are plenty of jobs in academic medicine, fewer the non PICU,NICU,ER world. I can tell you right now that in the state of michigan where I work there is ONE or TWO vacancies in neonatology ( one in Kalamazoo and one in traverse city...out in BFE ) there are NO jobs going for peds neuro, GI, endocrinology, cardiology, peds ER in the entire state for private practice. Hows that for a job market!

BUT if you want to join the medical school I am sure they could squeeze you in for $90 k / yr

 

[Tazmaniac]

Wow...not at all embittered 🙂.

In California, there's quite a demand for peds neurologists, according to the residents, fellows, and attendings in the Peds Neuro dept.

-Todd MSIV USC

 

[Noelle]

I don't know about the other peds specialties but I know there is a 20-30% critical shortage of peds neurologists all over the country. The problem, of course, comes when docs don't want to go to cities that are larger ( 1 mil+) or are on the coasts.

 

[jackjinju]

How much do the academic peds specialists make?

 

[oldandtired]

Depends on the speciality but generally 90,000-120,000 to start