Starting to think about a job. Help with search.

[xoggyux]

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Hello, I was wondering what would be good, reliable sources to start identifying potential places to find a job. I don't mind if I even have to pay a small/reasonable fee to start looking.
I'm 2nd-year resident and I would like to start dipping my toes into the market. My tentative plan is to search for a good paying job. Help with a couple of good, reputable broad resources to start? Thank you.

 

[IMGASMD]

Hello, I was wondering what would be good, reliable sources to start identifying potential places to find a job. I don't mind if I even have to pay a small/reasonable fee to start looking.
I'm 2nd-year resident and I would like to start dipping my toes into the market. My tentative plan is to search for a good paying job. Help with a couple of good, reputable broad resources to start? Thank you.

Money location hours. Pick two not three.

 

[xoggyux]

Money location hours. Pick two not three.

I don't know exactly what you mean but my goal is to work as hard as a resident and live with as frugal as a resident for another 2-3 years to clean my debt and save some $$ for house/investment. Basically, I have the energy, time and virility to pursue fellowship but I am not attracted to any as I like general medicine so I figure I would ensure my economic future by working as many hours and with the same budget as any fellow would do for 2-3 years.
I am looking forward to picking many extra shifts (perhaps allow for 5-7 days off/month to keep mind healthy and avoid mistakes). I do realize this is not sustainable for a whole career, but this is not what I am looking at the moment. I am single, no plans of changing this for now and I am committed to my job for at least 1-2 years to tackle my immediate goals.
The only requirements eventually would be to have plenty of specialty support (e.g. not super rural in a 5K people town) and no procedures simply because I will not have enough experience out of residency to be the shoe that fits all feet.
Looking just to start perusing around the market.

 

[IMGASMD]

What kind of jobs are you looking for? Inpatient, outpatient, private practice, hospital employee? Can you travel and do locum for a few years just to cover? If it’s money that you seek, find some rural area who needs physician. But you also mentioned you don’t want to be somewhere rural.
So that’s what I meant, you get to pick the money, location and hours. Usually you cannot have all three. I would pick rural Alaska for 6 months and make 400+, (the last time I checked), but you maybe require to start your own dialysis catheter if patient comes in and need urgent HD. that may not be your cup of tea or you need to manage your own vent. Or you pick a mid size city with all kinds of speciality support that you make 200-ish 7on/7off?

 

[xoggyux]

Oh, OK. Hospital medicine, around urban center/suburban but, does not have to be a big metropolitan area or something. I am really interested in nocturnist as I like the peace/tranquility of nights and the fact that I get to do more medicine vs administrative stuff at night and my natural circadian rhythm seems to be to be awake at nights anyway 😉 so win/win.
I have been in cities of ~100k population and I think that would be fine with me. Night job with ~12-15 shifts/month and ~300k compensation with the ability to do 5-10 extra shifts per month at my discretion and for a reasonable bonus, no procedures, no codes would be my ideal thing.

 

[chessknt]

No idea what your residency was like but might want to reevaluate the plan to work 1.5 fte until after you get your feet wet since you will probably find yourself a lot busier than you were as a resident (unless of course you have resident doi g your work). Nocturnist has a lower learning curve with all the usual quality of life trade offs.

 

[xoggyux]

Look I'll sort out how many hours and shifts/month I can safely and realistically do as I go. Part of the whole process includes assessing how busy the service is, duties and such. Obviously, I will not go to an interview and off the bat commit myself to a 25days/month schedule as that is ridiculous. More often than not I'd do the first month or so without picking extra shifts and start adding 2-3 per month until I reach my limit.
But all of this is beside the point, what I am looking right now is for a couple resources, websites, listing companies, etc that are reputable and competitive to start my search. I'm 1 year and some change away from having to make this decision, I just want to start the process sooner rather than later.

 

[chessknt]

Hospitals looking over a year out could have higher turnover or trouble recruiting. Extra shifts on a regular basis may mean they are understaffed. You'll probably have better luck looking in about 8 months since this will be an employed position rather than private practice which means you will be able to interest good hospitals with planned retirement/other moves from happy employees instead of sudden resignations or chronically unfilled holes.

There are a myriad of recruiters out there and they all get huge placement fees that could have gone to you instead. If you don't have a specific location where you could cold call and negotiate directly just start looking at postings in more remote major cities (eg Anchorage, Cheyenne, etc) and emailing recruiters making those postings. If the job doesn't fit the recruiters will try to acquire you and find a job that does so they can get a placement fee. There are some firms that do not operate on commission but they are usually regional with a smaller pool of hospitals/jobs to draw on.

Good luck!