What factors determine whether you attain Partnership?

[KeratinPearls]

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Several years away...if someone can answer this that would be great.

 

[yaah]

1) Whether the job is a partnership-track job

2) Whether the group is ethical

3) Whether you are a competent pathologist.

That's basically it. Many jobs aren't partnership track because you are a hospital employee or a lab employee. Jobs where you are an employee of a group of pathologists who are all partners are generally not good jobs.

 

[pathstudent]

Several years away...if someone can answer this that would be great.

A lot of groups have sold their practices to ameripath (quest), app, or to the hospital. I hear those group members talk about partnership but there really is no such thing. There might be making full pay but there is no such thing as becoming a partner. A pathologist whose group was sold to ameripath before she was made a partner said that ameripath ends up keeping over 50% of the revenue and puts pressure on the pathologists to go out and get new customers. After three years she couldn't take it anymore and got a university job.

You may not want to ask right away but definitely find out if the partners own the group or if some other entity does.

 

[KeratinPearls]

A lot of groups have sold their practices to ameripath (quest), app, or to the hospital. I hear those group members talk about partnership but there really is no such thing. There might be making full pay but there is no such thing as becoming a partner. A pathologist whose group was sold to ameripath before she was made a partner said that ameripath ends up keeping over 50% of the revenue and puts pressure on the pathologists to go out and get new customers. After three years she couldn't take it anymore and got a university job.

You may not want to ask right away but definitely find out if the partners own the group or if some other entity does.

I hear pathology is becoming corporatized. Does this mean in the future most pathologists will either be working in academia or an Ameripath setting? Yes, there will prob be private practice groups left but less than now.

 

[pathstudent]

I hear pathology is becoming corporatized. Does this mean in the future most pathologists will either be working in academia or an Ameripath setting? Yes, there will prob be private practice groups left but less than now.

Or as hospital employees what are they called phos or something like that. Please see that article I posted a couple months ago from the nyt. They detailed how private practice has been rapidly disappearing over the last ten years.

It is really drastic in fields like cards. During the golden years of the 90s and early 00s they opened up their own clinics an proceedure centers. Now that reimbusements have been slashed they have been selling their practices to their community hospitals. I have heard of a few gi groups wanting to sell their endoscopy centers to their hospitals.