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The thing is with pathology, young grads have never been able to sign out cases on their own in training. In other words, they don’t put their training wheels on until they start working.
Young grads go into practice, some with no confidence because either they 1. just suck or 2. because they had no chances at signing out cases on their own to develop their own confidence during training. So when they go out into the workforce, they are paid like crap. They never are allowed to put their training wheels on. Not until they join a practice.
Pathology trainees should be allowed to have signout privileges in training. If anything at the fellowship stage. Some places allow that. Some places don’t. I never had signout privileges during my training but when I started signing out on my own, I developed more confidence with each case I signed out. I’m sure everyone is like that.
Give a GI fellow signout privileges all throughout his busy fellowship (of course when his supervising attending thinks he’s competent to do so and with guidance). That individual, by the time he or she hits the workforce, will have his “training wheels on” and sign out like a rockstar and get paid a high salary or at least higher than the crap salaries that is offered at academic places because he has proven that he’s able to sign out cases independently and is able to generate a lot of revenue.
My buddy who was a GI fellow was offered 200k by academia. That’s crap. Imagine if that gi fellow was signing out a bunch of cases during his fellowship….he or she could and should command a higher salary.
In short, training doesn’t put younger grads in a position to succeed as in other fields. In other fields, young grads come out and command high salaries straight out of fellowship or residency because they’ve been put in a position to succeed in training and are fully prepared to work independently.
Young Radiology and anesthesiology grads come out of training and command high salaries straight out of training, so why not pathology?
Young grads go into practice, some with no confidence because either they 1. just suck or 2. because they had no chances at signing out cases on their own to develop their own confidence during training. So when they go out into the workforce, they are paid like crap. They never are allowed to put their training wheels on. Not until they join a practice.
Pathology trainees should be allowed to have signout privileges in training. If anything at the fellowship stage. Some places allow that. Some places don’t. I never had signout privileges during my training but when I started signing out on my own, I developed more confidence with each case I signed out. I’m sure everyone is like that.
Give a GI fellow signout privileges all throughout his busy fellowship (of course when his supervising attending thinks he’s competent to do so and with guidance). That individual, by the time he or she hits the workforce, will have his “training wheels on” and sign out like a rockstar and get paid a high salary or at least higher than the crap salaries that is offered at academic places because he has proven that he’s able to sign out cases independently and is able to generate a lot of revenue.
My buddy who was a GI fellow was offered 200k by academia. That’s crap. Imagine if that gi fellow was signing out a bunch of cases during his fellowship….he or she could and should command a higher salary.
In short, training doesn’t put younger grads in a position to succeed as in other fields. In other fields, young grads come out and command high salaries straight out of fellowship or residency because they’ve been put in a position to succeed in training and are fully prepared to work independently.
Young Radiology and anesthesiology grads come out of training and command high salaries straight out of training, so why not pathology?
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