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Hi everyone,
I am just curious how others have done lately with psychiatric job negotiations.
I've been interviewing at small hospitals in an area with a psychiatrist shortage. Most of them are currently using locums to fill most of their positions, or visa candidates on long contracts.
My biggest concern is being overwhelmed with higher inpatient load /call if another psychiatrist were to leave the hospital at the end of their contract and the hospital were slow to hire locums again (especially if they had staff on salary).
In order to protect myself from this I've tried to put contract suggestions in regarding patient workload, or average number of patients carried, etc, but have gotten some pushback about this. They seem to be willing to negotiate $$ , but not the actual job details.
I've been considering putting a proposal for bonus structure with a much higher bonus rate above a certain # of RVUs to disincentivize being overworked , or am wondering if anyone else has run into a similar issue in the past.
I am just curious how others have done lately with psychiatric job negotiations.
I've been interviewing at small hospitals in an area with a psychiatrist shortage. Most of them are currently using locums to fill most of their positions, or visa candidates on long contracts.
My biggest concern is being overwhelmed with higher inpatient load /call if another psychiatrist were to leave the hospital at the end of their contract and the hospital were slow to hire locums again (especially if they had staff on salary).
In order to protect myself from this I've tried to put contract suggestions in regarding patient workload, or average number of patients carried, etc, but have gotten some pushback about this. They seem to be willing to negotiate $$ , but not the actual job details.
I've been considering putting a proposal for bonus structure with a much higher bonus rate above a certain # of RVUs to disincentivize being overworked , or am wondering if anyone else has run into a similar issue in the past.