How many hours do you spend per week on full-time/part-time work?

[RJ]

Similar to what cardiology group is doing at my organization. They make 6 figures per month.

[Dreamgiver]

Anesthesiology here in a major academic center. Hybrid model where we get W2s but are contracted by our department and paid by the hour with a small professorship salary for the year. FTE is 40hrs/week. I work 60-80 billable hrs/week.

[hightower]

Currently I'm working as an "optional" status hospitalist which means that all of my shifts are admitting shifts.  Therefore it's fairly easy to see exactly how many hours I worked.  However, there's a lot of week to week variation.  If I average it out over a month...I'm probably right around 25 hours.  This month I had a little more because I covered someone during the holiday.

[Tri4Life]

RJ wrote:

Just curious. How is this ortho position without call? Who takes care of your post ops on Sundays, etc?

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Not a surgeon, primary care sports medicine.  Works out well since I can't take any of the calls for the post-op patients so I'm not in the call rotation even for non-post op patients because there is not easy way to sort that out.

Generally a great gig from a financial perspective when compared to other specialties from FM/IM/Peds in that its only one year, and at least in my area, salary is close to the higher paying IM specialties without having to kill yourself.

[uptoolate]

Full-time in my first job which was an academic position was 0730 to about 1800h M-F.  1 in 10 in house call. 1 in 2 long-range call for region. Officially 5 weeks off.  Second job was full-time academic and was 0730 to 1630h 1 in 8 call from home.  11 weeks off a year.  Final job was private practice and was 0730 to 1600 but occasionally out to 1800h or later.  1 in 10 in house call.  11 weeks off a year.  Maternal-Fetal Medicine.  Retired from clinical at 52.  Now am very part-time educator doing a couple of half days a week when the mood strikes.

[jhwkr542]

Path private practice gig

7:30-4ish 4.5 days a week=38 hrs a week

Being on call is hit and miss but usually no calls.

[childay]

I am an inpatient and consult psychiatrist, no clinic.  So it varies quite a bit depending on census.  In terms of hours at home, often I can go home and document from there in early afternoons.  That in my case can take several hours.  If I was forced to work 8-5 and then document at home I would find another job.  I expect for a lot of specialties I might be considered part-time, though for psychiatrists it is probably average..

[GXA]

Salaried Emergency Medicine.  1.0 FTE is just under 30 hours/week.

Our physicians range from 0.6 - 1.4 FTE depending on the income desires/needs.

[legobikes]

I'm a full-time outpatient pediatrician. M-F, 7 hours of patient care/day = ~35h/week, although often there is no patient first thing in the AM and so it's more often 6.5 hours actually spent at work/day. No call. I see an average of 15-22 patients/day.

1.5 hour lunch, during which I come home (about 2 miles and 5 minutes door-to-door) to eat and play with the baby before naptime. When I first started I wanted to shorten the day by shortening the lunchtime but I couldn't swing it with the administration because I'm the only pediatrician at this particular clinic and they want to maximize the hour spread so it kinda sorta looks like someone's there 8-5.

Technically there is an additional hour of documentation time per day that I do not use because efficiency is very important to me, and most of my visits are just well checks or simple sick visits. So I have custom order sets, complex keyboard/mouse macros and many quickphrases to get around the wonky EMR. I'd guess about half my notes are done in less than 1 minute, and the rest in less than 5 minutes. I never touch the computer while in the room because I don't believe in multitasking, and because it appears almost as disrespectful as staring at your phone.

The time between patients I do some paperwork, or read a book.

 

[jtse106]

Community EM. 36/hours clinical per week, doing 10-12's averaging approximately 14 shifts/month. Do mostly day/swings, maybe 1-2 nights/month. Get overtime pay if stay late. Usually work every other weekend.

 

Ideally would like to pick up another job in a non-medical field but not sure where to start.

[HikingDO]

RJ, Just had to comment that you've got the best Avatar!

[JulyJones]

This is so interesting!

 

Full time outpatient pediatrician, employed by a large health care cooperation. FTE for us is 36 patient contact hours a week. I'm currently working 4.5 days a week with one long day that includes some evening hours, but a lot of our group works 8-6 x4 days a week. Call is 1:6 newborn rounding, no deliveries. I probably spend about 10 hours a week outside my patient contact hours charting, filling out paperwork etc so would bet that I'm averaging 46 hours a week.

[PhysicianOnFIRE]

Dreamgiver wrote:

I work 60-80 billable hrs/week.

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What constitutes a "billable hour" in an academic anesthesia practice? If you medically direct two rooms with residents, can you squeeeze two billable hours into 60 minutes? Or are you just talking hours you're at the hospital?

[Dreamgiver]

Hours I am officially on the clock. We get paid by the hour so 80 hrs at work=80hrs I get paid for (no unpaid time for charting, follow ups, preops, etc). No, having 2 rooms with residents does not pay more than having one room by yourself, just like cardiac does not pay more than peds or General. RVUs are averaged across everyone and an hourly rate is attached to them. If we collect more than the hourly rate previously set, we get the extra money at the end of the year.