500k with 13 weeks vacation, and home call starting out??? where is this gig cause i would love to drop my job and run....sounds like a scam to lure people
Yup, sounds like a biat & switch routine to me...I'd be very wary of such a proposition. I nearly fell into something like this in So. ILL, but caught wind of somethings that were very fishy and decided to renig my verbal acceptance. Essentially, there were three problems: 1 - the more precise questions I asked the more vague the answers got...some of them 'evolved' into an entirely different species. 2 - I was told that my position was to take 2 years to "clinical partner", but that full business partner may never be in the works. His concept of "2 years to clinical partner" turned out to actually be a hired-on position where he would liberally discount my full-time salary by $75k year 1 & $25k year 2 & then pay me my full salary in year 3. Mind you, I was an EMPLOYEE of his, NOT a partner & there was no gain for me from the $100k deducted over 2 years. 3 - the FT salary went from $400k + he had a buddy I could moonlight for to increase my take home. This morphed into $375k and the more I moonlighted for his buddy of which a portion would go into the group, since I was an employee, to be bonused out making $400k an easy reach. This morphed the moonlighting for said friend was mandatory & the only way to hit the aforementioned $400k and that $$ I earned would go to the group to increase the overall bonusing.
This evolved...or de-evolved...over a short period of time, 3 or so weeks, as I pushed harder to get ever more elusive answers. Needless to say, I called off the deal. His response to my stopping was to refuse to reimburse me for a trip to take my family there to assess the community that he had promised to pay for. I lost $2500, but that is chickenfeed compared to the potential misery & financial beating I would have taken trying to break loose from this $hit-deal had I not woke up!
How did I nearly get my @$$ in that crack? Being a novice & not knowing when, who or what to ask and worrying that I might be inappropriate & risk loosing an opportunity, I very uncharacteristically keep my mouth shut & just did not ask. I ass/u/me-d that someone would tell me when the appropriate time was to chat about those sorts of things. As things progressed & no one told me the time was now, I began asking those questions...and getting zippo for answers.
Lesson for the novice - ask the hard questions, even at the risk of doing it at the wrong time or asking the wrong person. It may be your own @$$ you save! To hopefully minimize appearing like a dolt, I came clean & apologized for asking at the wrong time or to the wrong person up front. If that person diverted the question, I immediately came with, then who or when should I ask it. And, then reinforced my situation with my program trained me to be an anesthesiologist, but gave no guidance on how to do this part of the gig. If they appeared offended, I took note - because if they are so far removed from when they were a novice that they planned to hold that against me, then I did not want to be breaking in as a new staff doc under them either.
)) vary tremendously in terms of call, vacations, incentives, reimbursement rates, partnership tracks, just to name a few variables. If you busted your tail (Q3 call, no postcall day off, sell your vacations, give up benefits) and found the right group it's not uncommon to make 400K your first year out.
