If you know those terms, you pretty much have it. A quality private practice really won't budge much on their offers, as they know they are offering you a good job.
Other basics:
1) No group offering professional only should charge you a buy-in. If they do or are unclear on this, run away.
2) Graduated partnership is not a bad or good thing. It just depends. Some places keep you as an employee for 3-4 years then, BAM, you're a full equal partner. Others do it a more graduated approach. The one thing that is not good is a tiered systems with some partners being more equal than others. The large group in Atlanta is like this where the guys at the top clean up, and the rest dive for scraps. I believe FROG in Florida is like this, as well.
3) Non-compete clauses are common or uncommon depending on where you live. They can be quite restrictive (like mine, forbidding me to work almost anywhere in the DC area), but seldomly enforceable. It's typically not the group itself that cares - it's the hospitals that they contract with. I tried so hard, and couldn't get one word changed or barely restrictive at all (I've heard of a 5 mile radius). But, from talking to lawyers, they are seldom enforceable, because the group would have to prove that you harmed them (took away patients/income).
4) Tech/Prof - usually 75/25 to 80/20 split. If you are lucky enough to get technical, that's great. Can involve many hundreds of thousands to a million or more. It's usually financed through your paycheck - i.e. you make partner, you get paid partner salaray, but a couple hundred grand comes off the top over the next 4-5 years for you to pay it off. Other people get just professional. Other people get a global fee (instead of a distinct split, a group may get 25-30% of all billing).
5) Indentured servitude was a concept used in the 1700-1800s and refers to immigrants that would pay their way to get the United States by working for their sponsor for a limited number of years. After that time, they would be free. It's not common in modern medicine, however there are reports of human trafficking/sex workers that move here under such conditions.
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