My wife is a PGY3 and is currently pursuing Pediatric Hospitalist opportunities next year. She has already found/networked with a few hospitals systems that she is interested in (and they are interested in her), and I am trying to do as much research as I can to arm her come the time she begins to get offers. I work in business consulting and have plenty experience negotiating employment contracts, but when I try to coach/guide on anything in this realm her eyes begin to glaze over (as I'm sure many physicians do). She just wants to be done with residency and to start working, and I'm convinced that most organizations take advantage of this desire and make low-ball offers.
A couple questions:
1) How can I best coach/mentor her (from a physician's perspective) to make sure she puts herself in the best position from a compensation/expected workload standpoint? Are there questions you wish you would have asked while interviewing for your first job?
2) I know compensation data is hard to come by, especially if I'm trying to better understand average comp by region for pediatric hospitalist (not a large dataset). I've seen the Medscape survey data & also some Glassdoor type data, but how do you really know if you're getting a competitive offer?
A couple questions:
1) How can I best coach/mentor her (from a physician's perspective) to make sure she puts herself in the best position from a compensation/expected workload standpoint? Are there questions you wish you would have asked while interviewing for your first job?
2) I know compensation data is hard to come by, especially if I'm trying to better understand average comp by region for pediatric hospitalist (not a large dataset). I've seen the Medscape survey data & also some Glassdoor type data, but how do you really know if you're getting a competitive offer?
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