Ob hospitalist reddit Share your experiences, ask questions, and connect with both locals and visitors alike. Some groups offer additional OB hospitalist shifts where they help cover other patients whose private OB can’t make it for a delivery, or to deliver an unassigned patient. You have the potential to make great money if you do all other aspects of medicine like hospital medicine and ER. It doesn’t quite work like that. If you are a professional with relevant professional knowledge, message the moderator proof (with your user name written next to it so it may be verified), and you will be given flair to show your profession or degree. One thing I would consider, though, is that when you're on as a hospitalist, you're it. First, there are people that work one week a month but they either supplement with something else or they take the hit of a massive pay cut. A hospital will have OB hospitalists, so no matter what, an OB will be in the building to deliver you. Thankfully OB patients are rarely critically ill in a manner that L/D can't handle). This subreddit is a place where high income professionals of all types can ask, answer, discuss, and debate the personal finance and investing questions specific to our unique situations without being criticized, ostracized, or downvoted simply for having a high income and "first world" problems. This sounds like residency. I told her that not everybody can hate their life as an OBGYN and someone out there must be happy with the choice they made. If you want to become an OBGYN hospitalist, there is no different residency required other than the standard OBGYN Current PT hospitalist here but working exclusively on the teaching team with my residents. 350K still isnt wildly out of the ordinary. I also moonlight 3-4 hospitalist shifts/month which keeps my inpatient skills up. I rarely had OB patients in residency (non-L/D hospital) and fellowship (L/D hospital. Heck primary care IM pulls 250K usually Each hospitalist where I am carries 25-35 patient each. The "hospitalist" part of it is more of a description of their hospital role or practice style (not necessarily indicative of any specialized training). e. Having OB/Gyn following should be a requirement to be honest. Most MIGS people make between 220-280s. I am 26 female. Plus, OB is changing in many places in the country, with much more reasonable call arrangements, etc. Especially with how consult heavy hospital medicine is. We have a dedicated code team. You do have a “home hospital,” but if you are not needed there for your assigned day, staffing will call you in the morning and tell you where you need to go. Same goes for ER and probably hospitalist service I would assume. The reality is that the amazing experience you had and the terrible experiences you are hearing about are both possibilities in obgyn depending where you go. He had off times where a bigger practice would've covered for him, so I'd have a random OB I've never met, but the one time I want into labor on his off time, he was already at the hospital so it was never an issue. I’ve pushed them up to 325 when they were desperate in some poop hole hospital. I wouldn’t touch a 24 hour anything for less than 3500 especially to do what u do as an obgyn I have MFM locally which allows me to manage slightly high risk than I would be able to otherwise. I use Dr. What is their scope of practice? How much are they entrusted with? How are they generally viewed within your field? Jan 22, 2011 · AFAIK, all current OBGYN hospitalists completed general OBGYN residency. Most hospitalist gigs (at least in my geographic region) have moved to this model. This means that I work 15-24 hour shifts 2-4 times a week in the hospital. 26 on 26 weeks off with open ICU (BIPAP, DKA not tubed/pressor patients), no procedures, no nights (4 admitting shifts from 12pm to 12 AM). I mean I think it's insanity but hospitals are doing it. Stony Brook NICU mom x2 here! Congrats! Stony Brook all the way. However, you can't really have a hospital without ICU services, so the other money-making parts of the hospital (I would assume things like OB, plastic surgery, oncology etc) that depend on the ICU when their patients crash subsidize the ICU. Things that I consider when choosing are: My wife wants to be an OBGYN, she is finishing up her M3 year and is currently in her OBGYN rotation. Just trust yourself and fuck the haters. With a similar sign on bonus. Medicine is hard work regardless. Can approach 300k or more but you could be covering some terrible hospitals with little support. One of the groups at my hospital only has to take call once every 14 days. Why hire 4 hospitalists if you can hire a hospital with 4 APRN. It's really frustrating as an OBGYN applicant who loves GYN surgery and wants to do MIGS (complex fibroids removal, adenomyosis, endometriosis excision). Dang that’s low, I’m a locum hospitalist and don’t touch anything under 200 and last contract was 225/hr. I moved to Houston and needed a new primary care provider and obgyn. Occasionally we get one at my current non L/D hospital. Lochner/Vansise for OB in Bohemia for my first and 12 weeks with my second (had to be transferred to high risk from 12 weeks until 39+4 with my second, commack office with stony Brook ob). Private practice attending here, since 2019. At most I’m scrambling to escalate care but it’s not like the old days when hospitalists were running codes and rapids themselves. AG-ACNPs specialize in adult acute and critical care. The one I chose is unacceptable. Absolutely not. Has to do with many women being on Medicaid for pregnancy so OB doesn’t pay well even though the stress, labor (heh) and potential for devastating and life altering complications are high. No codes, no rapids and no procedures are required per my contract. We have OB hospitalists that cover nights and weekends so I only take back up call from home overnight and on Laborist/Hospitalist seems like a pretty good gig if you're okay with working a few 24h shifts a month and dislike the clinic setting. If I choose this path, I will be doing a 2 year fellowship and then getting paid less than a general OBGYN by giving up OB, which pays more than GYN. Midatlantic datapoint: OBHG w2 position 175/hr. It averages between 48-96 hours per week! Sep 22, 2018 · I’m a guy, with a beard, who’s white, who was a football coach, who is going into obgyn. 24 hour shifts. Sep 23, 2024 · From a money/effort/utility ratio, its a great gig compared to a high competition subspecialty. Apr 29, 2020 · To give you some background, I am a OB/GYN but work as a hospitalist. Avg hospitalist usually pulls at least 275-300K depending on how much they want to work. My hospitalist friends say the writing is on the wall and want to exit into something else. Not attending but have offer for 305+/year (pre-tax 26K/month) for IM hospitalist medicine in Midwest regardless of RVU's. I know specifically my future place of employment that non-OB FM docs base was 275k. I generally work 40 hour weeks, have one half day per week, and only do 12h shifts on L&D. There’s still lots of rural places that don’t do OB anymore. Some groups have a contract with the hospital where they will cover ED and inpatient GYN consults for patients who don’t have a gynecologist on staff at that hospital. . Usually I have chosen my doctors by word of mouth and have had awesome luck but I didn’t know anyone here with a good one and needed to decide. When I was at a solo practice, I called him and he met me there. Typically this means working in a hospital with patients on a specific service, floor, IMC, or ICU, but they can also function in specialty clinics like cardiology offices or orthopedic offices that only treat adults. I'm a senior med student matching in OB this year and I've been told a million times (usually by anesthesiologists) that I'm an idiot and I'll hate my life. Reddit's source for women's health info, questions and discussion. Idk what resources youre looking at but Hospitalists dont avg 150K lmao 300K is almost double what youre hearing Hospitalists make? Your sources are hilariously off. They usually have 3-7 new admissions per day. Or you could be an OB hospitalist (we call them “OB on Call”) where you work your specified shift at the hospital and then get to go home and live your life. Like if you wanted to do Cards/GI, you first have to put in a lot more effort in both medical school and residency doing research, getting better stats and sucking up to more people for a good 7-8 years whereas if you knew you were going to be a Hospitalist, you can really just coast in class, get Welcome to /r/orangecounty, the Reddit community for all things related to Orange County, California. My clinic is 30% OB, 20%peds and 50% primary care. That is disgustingly and insultingly low for OB. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. As many as 10 can have ‘acute’ designation i. Everybody we talk to tells us that it's the worst decision anybody could make and to choose a different career path. This is your one-stop-shop for discussions, news, events, and local happenings in this sunny Southern California region. I very much chose my practice for lifestyle criteria because I was very burnt out from residency. OB is horrifically underpaid for the amount of work we do. I am literally living my dream. be at step-down unit acuity level. They have 5 hospitals in the area and you are expected to float to all five. Joining a larger practice will allow you to be on call less often. It's already happening. Dec 6, 2019 · If you do locums laborists or get employed by an OB hospitalist group, typically you are doing 7 or 8 twenty four hour shifts a month. ryie bhwhhv wijy ucwefv pmosw raye sjoemi zxfy xrford ruqsx odxc nqter osyaf ombkxy ohvt