Recent content by Benzo4every1

depends on what you like. In my group there are 2 EM/CC docs. No anesthesia CCM. But if you want to have options like clinic in the future, should consider Pulm/CC

isn't it six months?

this is an old thread… but use cme $$ to buy seek books. they still sell seek books in addition to the seek library

we do not get paid extra to do supervising NP , PA, or APPs. Now with the new billing that came into place, we can bill for additional time if we did extra besides writing a cosign note with APP's initial encounter. Our hospital is pro-APP

EMCRIT

whenever you do additional critical care work. Usually it is the night people who do crosscover who do the extra billing Some do not and we underbill way too many times. People undervalue their work and time in my group unfortunately

I would focus on using Uworld Qbank and MKSAP questions. Uworld seems to be dead on.

15 shifts per month sounds decent. I average out to be that. You can always moonlight if you want more. I get on the average one week of ICU a month. The rest is clinic and inpt pulm. But each is compartmentalized. You don't ever do pulm and cc on the same day. But clinic follows you everywhere...

it will give you options if you want to cut back in the future and do just clinic and inpt pulm. no overnight calls when you do just pulm if you want to do the ccm route, even our APP now do bronchs and chest tubes... so... If you do CCM only, then you will be just doing Inpt work for a while...

when our locums PCCM work with us, if for pulm, they usually pick up clinic shifts. if for ccm, they pick up icu shifts. we don't usually ask locums to do our pulmonary procedures. would get bronchs in icu if you sign up for that, just fyi. we need 10 bronchs every two years to keep credentialing up

always make time for questions . uworld for sure. make note cards of this nah you don’t understand . make a high yield notes for you to review last minute.

in case i ever move to a new job and needed. my present job does not require IM to get hospital privileges. just pulm cc

seek books. subscriptions are annual

if you are a fellow and you moonlight IM, do you have to present to the attending, if youre IM boarded already? asking for a friend

you can always start out locums if you want. then you will definitely get access to smaller hospitals