So, how’s the job hunt going for other specialties?

[ChemPetE]

Was curious this morning. Seems like everything is shut down/put on pause to deal with COVID. For the R5s that still have to write their exams, do you have something lined up, or still hunting, or have prospects dried up? 

[Lactic Folly]

Fellowships lined up

[ellorie]

I had a job offer before COVID that seems to be unaffected - though it’s not clear to me that the job I will be doing will be exactly the job I am signing for, at least for the moment, but I think that’s true for many staff right now. 
 

Pretty glad I ultimately decided not to go into private practice in the community - I strongly considered it. Would NOT want to be opening a practice right now. 

[LostLamb]

Jobs: Moving target all the time.

I have part time work lined up. Even getting that organized and formalized is more complicated than usual, but I am fortunate I already have my FRCPC so no need for provisional licensing, etc.

I foresee having to sub in to help if/when other attendings have to quarantine. I really hope that is not the case, however! 

 

[ChemPetE]

I wanted to bump this and see how things went for the rest of the year for the new grads/current R5s. Seems like things are slow again for new job postings in my field, but that’s par for the course. Did things pick up for others?

[LostLamb]

Thankfully, everything lined up and I had work right off the bat on July 1...paperwork and other formalities took a lot longer this year because of the pandemic.

Most people joining the ranks in my specialty are not doing one single thing at one single location. I work outpatients and am not located within a major hospital site fortunately so overall covid risks are less. I do participate in an ER on call roster, though.

I am grateful to every preceptor, mentor, senior resident, experienced physician colleague and random nice person who advised me to start slow and build my practice up rather than taking on every opportunity available. transition to staffhood is always tricky but doing it in a pandemic and suddenly doing work virtually adds some complexity.

New opportunities have popped up since I've been an attending that I did not anticipate and I am glad to be able to jump on them immediately and build the kind of practice I want--variety and different levels of complexity. 

I hope you get what you need and opportunities are cropping up for you

[ChemPetE]

Thanks LL. I was locuming for the summer, and  something lined up to start back where I trained in Sept. But also noticed things were slow, so was curious to see if it was still slow for others or if things had picked up. COVID has been a curveball for many things.

[LostLamb]

Looking forward to seeing you around again here—if that means you are coming back west