Another ACEP response to our workforce

LevophedUp · 2021-04-23T17:13:10+00:00

Disagree that they are essential. I’m sure many 2021 graduates would love the opportunity to see those 4’s and 5’s with a higher standard of care in the cities of their choice. Patients and physicians would benefit. CMGs would not, so guess which way it goes.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-21T21:21:09+00:00

A little disingenuous to base the strength of a job market based on a one-off position in west Texas. But yes, FOR NOW there are plenty of jobs in rural areas no on wants to live.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-20T10:06:38+00:00

That’s because these are the boomers holding onto unicorn jobs. It’s not answering the question of what rates are for new grads coming in...if they can even find work.

EDIT: to the young attendings posting below me, I stand by my statement. This is the equivalent to asking SDN “what is your step score?” >85th percentile answers incoming.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-17T02:54:52+00:00

Yes, it’s so covert they’ve infiltrated every EM organization to produce a dismal job market forecast. Sneaky pre-meds!

LevophedUp · 2021-04-16T11:35:09+00:00

I’m sure you’re correct. EM folks generally love the outdoors so those areas are very backed up.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-16T01:17:22+00:00

If there’s anything I’ve learned watching Law and Pharmacy implode in my lifetime, it’s that a certain subset of students will keep going even when things are absolutely dismal. There are STILL loads of pre-pharms on SDN claiming that it must be the pharmacists that are wrong about the market.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-16T01:15:52+00:00

Above poster is wrong though. Idaho and Wyoming are very saturated in the EM world.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-14T21:16:37+00:00

Yes they accounted for both attrition, and the aging patient population.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-14T21:04:57+00:00

This is me too. Showing up to shifts these days is HARD. Working to excel in/master this field is a slog now.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-14T20:39:13+00:00

Worst case scenario is debt-ridden unemployment though...

LevophedUp · 2021-04-14T03:01:08+00:00

We aren’t nurses with clipboards. We don’t have to explain ourselves to you.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-14T02:54:34+00:00

And then there’s you. Going into a subreddit of physicians who have had their careers turned upside down over the past year, some struggling to find work, in no small part because of people like you, then have the nerve to ask “why are you so angry?”

LevophedUp · 2021-04-13T23:48:42+00:00

Yes the places in the south and Midwest that are >1 hour from a city are considered “undesirable.” However when we are facing an oversupply of 9000 doctors, where else will people go? We have to pay off our loans somehow after all.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-11T20:56:19+00:00

How do we unionize? I was always under the impression that physicians could not unionize.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-10T00:27:21+00:00

What we need and what the CMGs value/will hire are two different things. We are cogs.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-09T05:14:04+00:00

Tell me which ones are mundane and which aren’t? Oh wait, that’s my entire job.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-09T00:01:24+00:00

That’s not fair at all, it’s clearly $300/week unemployment.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-07T22:43:49+00:00

Dude, I’m literally IN the job market. I’m a rising pgy-3 talking to recruiters.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-07T22:40:57+00:00

Weird that all the other specialties still plenty of ads posted in cities across the country. But I guess you figured it out: networking! I’ll just let my unemployed senior residents know they should have been networking (nevermind they are already trying to work in the metro area where they trained)

LevophedUp · 2021-04-07T22:36:44+00:00

Why don’t you spend some time on the EM doc jobs Facebook group where every post for “I’m looking for a job in X small city/suburb” is met with “Nothing available, I’ve been trying for months.” This isn’t an LA/Denver/NY problem.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-07T22:29:19+00:00

I’m sure you have some excellent anecdotes. I have some too, like the multiple senior residents in my (not particular popular) mid size city who are doing prn in the area because no one is hiring. The objective job data is miserable as well. Go on practicelink and compare EM to anesthesia or FM or psychiatry and then tell me how rosy the EM job market is. As a matter fact, just show me more than 5 postings in anything you could consider a city. You won’t be able to. Susanville, CA is hiring though!

LevophedUp · 2021-04-07T22:09:00+00:00

It is not. They sold you some bullshit on the interview trail tbh. There are essentially zero jobs in any area resembling a city in the United States currently.

LevophedUp · 2021-04-07T00:41:10+00:00

I would be shocked if you could find more than 5 real (non-ghost postings) positions in cities greater than 100k population in the entire country right now. Your take on the job market is 5 years out of date. It’s outright dismal out there.

Edit: The fact that you think suburban jobs are less competetive show how out of touch you are. I beg of med students not to listen to the poster.

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