Recent content by calvinhobbes

100% agree. No one cares in the real world, and for the rest of your life you will have the same exact job opportunities and recognized by all insurance panels, hospital credentialing, etc. You will forever write “Board Certified Pediatrician” on your resume and office business cards, etc. The...

You are a board certified pediatrician. Doesn’t matter if the exam you passed is AOA or ABMS, you are board certified Do you think the Board Certified Surgeons or Dermatologists or Urologists who did an AOA (DO) residency and took their speciality’s AOA Board exam really care? No, they collect...

Yes you can. You can use FAAP as you are fellow of the AAP even if you are AOA certified. Source: the ABP and AAP when the exact same question was asked. So yes, you can join and pay a membership fee and use the title FAAP

Yay!

Yay!

Check out the post pediatric portal program, there are 4 solid good programs in 4 great locations that fully train you in gen psych and child psych (you’re a resident and fellow concurrently in both programs) and you become board eligible in both. its three years , not four, because you don’t...

Just wanted to add, you can also do a one-year fellowship in Hospice / Palliative Care after peds and there is an AOA Board exam in Hospice and Palliative Care (for those that do peds and then do the palliative care fellowship after)...

Glad she took it and hopefully did well!

Thank you very much. Definitely being low-balled then. Appreciate it.

Hey everyone, anyone know what is an okay hourly rate (per diem) for as needed shift work for outpatient or inpatient consults in the north east area (big city)? Being offered $150 - 170 / hour at a large hospital system but I feel this is low and want to negotiate. I feel like it should at...

Great points!!

It’s one example of many of why their students hate the admin. I’m not degrading their education, it’s just not a school that loves its students, nor its hospital sites, just solely loves their board members. There’s a reason why NY kept saying no for the longest time to Elmira’s campus opening...

They don’t allow water bottles in all day lectures lol. So if you’re okay with that kind of environment and security yelling at you then this school is for you!

Good offer but curious what part of the country?

Because it’s a subspecialty of psychiatry, not pediatrics, and insurance reimburses higher for psych than for peds coding, plus psych docs bill for therapy when they do it, in addition to regular visits. And there is a shortage of child psych so demand is high and supply is low, thus salaries...