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Hello, I'm a PGY3 considering taking a job upon graduation with a group private practice where I'd be an independent contractor. A former attending has worked at the group and has positive things to say about it. It is a very stable group with a strong presence in the area. The split is 70/30...

First of all - I can feel in my bones this is a stupid question...but I don't understand why a hospital would want to pay a resident moonlighter. The resident still has to staff with the attending, even with a permanent license, so the attending is also getting paid. I rotate at one hospital...

I get 5 sick days a year. We are discouraged from using them.

This is all extremely helpful, thank you everyone. I'm an intern on one of my first inpatient psych rotations, to provide further context. In this one particular case, my attending is not much more knowledgeable about management than I am. I hesitate to provide too many details due to paranoia...

Any resources you can point me toward? Male patient, absolutely zero insight, BMI qualifies as moderate anorexia. Has lost ~5 lbs since admission 1-2 weeks ago. Compulsively exercising despite not being allowed to (no real way to enforce). All expected nutrition-related labs mildly abnormal; pt...

I did my third-year psych rotation and one fourth-year psych rotation before applying. I'd recommend doing as many non-psych rotations as possible. I had 2 psych letters, 1 medicine, and one family medicine.

Thanks for the paper recommendation - I've also tried to find the answers to the OP's question. I'd be interested in the other papers you'd recommend if you have time to find them.

Loyola in Chicago

Can anyone tell the future? I'm very interested to know, feel free to pm me. Thanks!

I received an email from a PD that sounded like it was trying to be personal but also sounded oddly vague/generic enough that it made me ask around and sure enough, everyone I know who interviewed there got the same email verbatim. It actually made me think a bit less of the program. I received...

Any thoughts on University of Michigan vs University of Chicago? I'm flip flopping between them daily and would really love to hear any opinions. My future goals include CL at a smallish/ruralish hospital somewhere. I think I liked the UChi program slightly better, but liked the UMich location...

Exactly. I'm a graduating fourth-year. When I started med school, almost every practicing physician told me (and my classmates) that it was a bad idea or was at least negative about the field's prospects. Of course we didn't listen. After experiencing it, I don't know if medical school was the...

I think it'd be strange to do a second look at a place you did an audition at, to be honest. A second look, to me, means you were either 1. unsure about the place or 2. want to show the area to a significant other (in which case I don't really see the point in bringing them to the program...

I think this is a difficult decision--program vs family. How far is the commute from CHA to your hometown? I think if it's reasonable to make the trip once or twice a month, you should go with CHA, since that's what your gut is telling you to do. (I didn't interview at CHA but loved Zucker.)

I only interviewed at Hofstra out of those you mentioned, but I loved Hofstra. The area didn't seem too crazy expensive (especially for being close to the city) and they do have subsidized housing, which seems like a huge help.