Primary care PT job opportunities?

[dphy83]

Hey everyone,

 

I am currently in an EM fellowship/residency, so it is fairly safe to assume that my future full-time employment will be in EM (I recognize that this is not 100%). With that being said, has anyone seen/heard of/etc the opportunity to work part-time in family medicine or outpatient internal medicine one day per week or one day every other week?

 

I am interested in this just so I don't lose sight of appropriate management of the common (and not so common) chronic conditions. Or do you suppose that subscribing, and actually reading, a primary care journal would keep me up to date on these topics? Or am I worried over nothing, and I likely won't lose sight of these topics practicing in EM? I am a new grad so I just don't know how this will play out in the future.

 

Thanks for any feedback.

[Febrifuge]

Listening to Primary Care RAP or reading a good journal should be enough, really.

 

And anyway, looking at it from the other side of things, you'd be (hypothetically) asking a primary care clinic someplace to hire an EM-trained new grad for one day a week. I can see why that might be nice for you, to keep your skills up and your mind flexible, but what do they get out of it?

 

Our clinic has a medical director who works half-time, because the other half of it she's in meetings and otherwise building the practice. We have a lot of 0.75 to 0.9 FTE people... but we don't have anyone working a super light PT schedule. And I don't know why we would, unless they were some kind of uber-experienced primary care god/ess.