This is the third part in the Physician Contracts series. Please read 1 and 2 before reading this one. This post will focus on more complex private practice and partnership-type contracts, in a very general sense. Please note that there is wide variation in these kinds of contracts, with the larger variability coming from the specialty involved and the location of the practice. That said, let’s jump in. Partnership So the idea of partnership comes in […]
Medicine Mondays
This is the second part in the series, Physician Contracts. The first post is here. I’m going to try to keep this part short and sweet discussing the most common clauses found in physician contracts: Termination without Cause Termination with Cause Non-Compete (Restrictive Covenant) Evergreen The first two are pretty ubiquitous to physician contracts (outside of academic contracts). The 3rd one is pretty common, and usually the most controversial. The 4th one is just to […]
Physician Contracts Part Two
This is a follow-up to my prior posts, Choosing Your First Job and Malpractice Insurance. Once you have an offer in hand, they will send you a contract. For many of you, this will be the first contract you’ve ever looked at, with a lot of legalese that may make your eyes bleed. I’m going to try to break down contracts in a general sense, to at least give you the context for how to look at […]
Physician Contracts
My prior post was about, Choosing Your First Job. Before we move on to Physician Contracts, I think it’s important to talk about Malpractice Insurance. Physicians in general dislike talking about this because we don’t like to think about the possibility of being sued. For the most part, this is covered during residency under your institutional policy, which is almost always occurrence meaning that you don’t have to worry about it. However, now that you are […]
Malpractice Insurance
So it’s Medicine Mondays… and I talked about I’ve talked about The Track and Falling Off the Track previously. So now I want to take the time to go over how to approach finding your first job. First things first. Usually the first thing people talk about when trying to compare two different job openings is the difference in salary. I am going to spend the majority of this post trying to convince you that this […]
Choosing Your First Job
So, in my previous post The Track, I talked about “The Track” of medicine. I mentioned someone I knew who had “fallen off The Track” who despite his best efforts, had never really recovered. Also, if you read my prior post Caribbean Medical Schools or my About page, that I had also fallen off “The Track”. So now let’s break down what happens when you fall off the track (at least in my opinion): I think […]