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1. The best job in the world (IMO). 2. Lowest malpractice (I pay $800/year with the APA discount) 3. It is not internal medicine. 4. As an R2 in Nor Cal my salary is about $43k as a resident. However, I make $5220.00 per month moonlighting 14 hours per week. Many of my fellow residents are...

Would we say that our training in psychology is equal to that of the clinical psychologists who get 5 to 7 years of doctoral training? How about psychological assessment? How much training in psychotherapy did we get before being turned loose to mess around with people's psyche's...

Call the Gov. of Louisiana and urge her to veto HB 1426. The Gov. is Kathleen Blanco. Telephone Number: (225) 342-0991 or 342-7015

Options for psychologists to prescribe medications: 1. Take a van down to Mexico and load it up with Effexor, Paxil, Zyprexa, etc. and then sell it to your patients for a nominal fee. This sounds like a win/win situation to me. 2. Go back to school and get your PA or RNP license. This...

Some psychologists in the US are so desperate to offer prescriptions that they have enlisted Canadian pharmacists in their efforts. Lacking medical training and authority to write a valid presciption, they order lower-priced drugs from Canada, cynically using the cost savings to entice patients...

According to the American Psychiatric Association, organized psychology has relentlessly pursued prescriptive rights for twenty years. Since 1993, they have made 50 attempts in twenty states. As psychiatrists and future psychiatrists, we are obligated to stop them. Psychologists outnumber...

Unless the program is jointly accredited like Michigan State University, then you are doing an extra year. If you go allopathic, it is possible to get your first year approved by the AOA. I know someone at the Loma Linda psych program in CA that recently got his first year approved as an AOA...

:thumbdown :thumbdown :thumbdown :thumbdown News RELEASE American Psychiatric Association, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209 For Information Contact: For Immediate Release: Jason Young, 703-907-8582 or c: 202-669-5929 April 20, 2004...

Hate is your word sir, not mine. Your misinformation and baneful influence is what I am talking about. Do your colleagues know that you consider their work boring? Why don't you send the group an e-mail expressing this opinion? Perhaps you are bored and need to get out of this profession. I am...

You are sounding a bit trollish Allred. This information may apply to PSYCHOLOGISTS (like you), where there is a huge over supply due the the diploma mills that pump out the psyD degree, but this does not accurately portray the career outlook for psychiatry. IMG/FMG's are getting pushed into...

Application fee is $75.00. Takes about 6-8 weeks to get approval. You can only do 8 weeks total if non-USC student.

Colton is a bit of an "arm pit". Redlands and Loma Linda are decent areas to live and raise a family. The housing costs are much less than many parts of LA county. Arrowhead is a great place to do rotations. It is a very busy county facility. The neuro surg. residents are fun to work with and...

COMP match list 2003: Family Practice PIH Family Practice Residency Whittier CA Pediatrics Children's Hospital Los Angeles CA AOA - Rotating Internship Chino Valley Medical Center 5451 Walnut Ave. #2 Baylor U Med Ctr., Dallas, TX Phys Med & Rehab Chino / #2 Dallas CA / #2...

Part II: Now that his program has cleared the backlog of older patients, Kashurba is able to assess children for autism at ages 3 and 4. The region Kashurba serves includes the town of Shanksville, site of the Flight 93 crash on Sept. 11, 2001. Kashurba volunteered his services to meet...

Here is an interesting report on child psychiatry ( part I): Child Psychiatry Faces Workforce Shortage by William Kanapaux Psychiatric Times March 2004 Vol. XXI Issue 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many children with...