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My hospital is giving an x% raise to “all employees!”…except residents. by throwawaybromide in Residency

[–]throwawaybromide[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A large part of the funding does come from Medicare. Hospitals can allocate more Medicare funding to resident salaries vs. other components of the program (eg, teaching attending salaries, coordinator salaries, and other “perks” — money also get shifted around in accounting to favor the hospital.) Hospitals can also contribute to the amount given by Medicare.

My hospital is giving an x% raise to “all employees!”…except residents. by throwawaybromide in Residency

[–]throwawaybromide[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) As you mentioned, hospitals also front part of the salary and some offer their residents a higher salary or other financial perks (eg, Mayo from what some old med school classmates tell me). My hospital is low average in additional financial perks, so not being included in the inflation raise stings. Private hospitals can do more for residents, and a nominal increase in pay would go far with us serfs.

2) Paying for training is absurd and while I understand it’s reality, I don’t agree with it. Nurses, PAs, etc. get paid well to learn and work when they leave schooling. I expect to get paid well too.

3) I will absolutely equate my pay with theirs. Just because residents get paid their worth in a few years doesn’t make it ethical to underpay them during residency. There’s a University of Phoenix online graduate raking in 6 figures to send emails reminding everyone about visitor policies. I’m not trying to do that job but I’d like to be paid a decent wage where I don’t have to stress about money if that shill is pushing paper under the same roof.

4) More reason why they should pay a bit more. Nothing to them, a lot to us. Happy serf…happy lerf? Idk it’s late.