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  Monday, 26 November 2007
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Has anyone heard about trauma surgeon jobs where the surgeon just works say 7 days on and 7 days off, or 2 weeks on 2 off? Maybe just nights?
I am interested in this growing trend. Has anyone heard specifics about these types of jobs? What is the salary like? Are there clinic responsibilities?

Shiftwork seems like a nice way to go. Obviously one would have to be at a busy center for this to work.

What are your thoughts?
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I was under the impression that most of these (currently rare) jobs are for general surgery trained trauma surgeons... could be wrong though.
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i'm sure u could find a locums tenens position...some hospitals do have "surgicalists" now similar to "hospitalists" but these have been for gen surg prior.
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my thoughts are that it would be insane to want to work 7 to 14 days "on" at a busy trauma center. talk about burnout in less than 5 years. salary could be 10 million and it wouldn't be worth it. all it would take would be 3-4 trauma patients with multiple long bone fractures each, spread out over the course of 2-3 days to completely wipe you out--and at a busy trauma center, that is EASILY possible everyday in the summer.

and yes, there would HAVE to be clinic responsibilities. you wouldn't expect to operate on someone and have them magically disappear/heal on their own would you??

sorry if i'm harsh, but that is a bad idea. some trauma centers shift the surgeon's office days so that they are able to leave at noon after being on call. the last thing you want to do is flail through a busy clinic after being up operating all night. that would be reasonable to do.
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