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Does the lower salary of a physician scientist/academic physician come with better work hours, control, and personal life?
Anyone have any good links or know?
Anyone have any good links or know?
Wow, 60 hours a week is really tough...
Gee, I read 60 hours and thought "wow, that is extremely reasonable."
But my PI probably rubs off on me... he is a PhD (so no extra clinical work), and he works probably 70 hours a week or so. Full professor and everything, makes his own schedule (not pushing for tenure).
If you sleep 8 hours a day, 70 hours a week is 88% of your waking hours during the weekdays. Basically, the other 12% is eating and traveling.
That's not reasonable at all.
It's been done before. The career guidance and support isn't there like it is for IM, Peds, and Path. But there are a number of EM guys doing both basic science and/or clinical research. Look up Jeff Hollander at Penn for one, and both Pitt and Highland's EM programs have a number of researchers. Cincinnatti has a specific program in neurocritical care for EM residents.OK, but what about something like emergency medicine? The weekly hours are MUCH less for clinical, so I don't understand why more people don't do EM and devote the extra time to research and/or having a life. I would like to combine EM with a research career looking at stroke or TBI or a similar emergency neurological condition. Am I deluded in thinking that this is an awesome combination??? (Given that I thrive in high stress situations and I am very good at thinking on my feet. I just need to get over the natural "ewwwwwww blood and guts" thing and I'll be fine for EM, I think...)
This is all kind of mystifying. I know that there ARE women who have an MD/PhD and also have children, but I don't see how. Where is there time to have kids?!?!? I want to have a family, so maybe surrogacy is the answer!