Recent content by DD214_DOC

I have my own theories about what is happening but in the last 3 years in two different senior and executive-level leadership positions, recruitment and retention has been abysmal. I'm sure others out there are also experiencing this and I'm interested in your thoughts and what may have been...

Nobody has any idea what's going on. I still show up with a clinical psychologist taxonomy a year into my current position. This was carried over from my time in the same system while in the active military, as I traced its origin back to my initial privileges at my training institution -- who...

I did not see any threads about this when I searched, so maybe it's a first! I started in a GS position about a year ago as a department chief. The stars aligned and it was a terrific opportunity that just happened to become available at the right time. Unfortunately, I also did not have a lot...

I spent 9 years on AD, a couple years in the private sector holding senior leadership positions, and jumped on an opportunity a few months ago to become a department chief at an MTF. Inexplicable problems such as this are absolutely due to CPAC. I abhor CPAC and they are the bane of my...

Nobody seems to be able to give me an answer on this. I have a PHS officer in desperate need of assistance to get squared away (basically, in other branches of the military, he/she would be considered AWOL at this point) I'm researching as much info as I can find on the internet to learn this...

I sort of did, actually. My undergrad ended up being in psychology because I quickly realized the depth one could go during the freshman intro psych course. The course itself wasn't that way, obviously, but I found myself spending time outside of class discussing concepts and pretty deep stuff...

I left the military and managed to land a gig as a medical director for a large CMHC, with an integrated state-wide system. I learned billing and such fairly well while it was all on the military's dime in preparation to enter civilian practice, so am quite familiar with add-on codes and the...

This is kind of what I thought to do and did first. I figured it made sense to take all the contract staff, then exclude the ones placed by an agency since those rates are outliers. I took all of the LLC docs and found the average for them all. This may not make sense, but I needed a starting...

It's almost surreal, thinking about it, how far things have come since I first joined SDN. I joined as a premed, possibly even before then but can't remember, and today I'm making this post as a double board-certified adult and pediatric psychiatrist who's now in the executive management side of...

I’m actually doing this very thing in my current position. I do a split of roughly 60% clinical and 50% admin. I was able to set my own clinical schedule as long as it met the parameters of 60% of my hours per week. I’m also on contract and not an employee of the system I’m in leadership for...

Well, here is the problem. Finance brief was yesterday, and technically we should continue to get everything as far as special pays and what not. At least, that was my understanding. However, "save pay", stops during terminal leave. "Save pay", has a pretty specific definition which has nothing...

Since our contracts are July-July, do we still get our special pay while on terminal leave up to the separation date? I know special pay typically stops. I am going to guess it does for us too and is a stipulation in the contract.

Thank you! This is a exceptional advice and useful information. While the military saved me money by reducing overall student loan debt, it also put me about 5 years behind the learning curve for everything on the outside. Ironically, a few days after posting on this thread, I stumbled on to...

Other than requesting a UQR for separation and all the stuff involved with it, anything else I need to specifically do in order to resign my commission? I was pretty sure that's what a UQR actually does.

I have to ask. I am CAPs and leaving the military. I accepted a position that I know compensated less than I could make due to the job itself (dev peds clinic, no call, faculty appointment at the med school, outpatient only, etc.) but did not realize what the extra income would actually mean in...