Covid endures (for now)
Critical Care Doctors Are in Crisis Unfortunately, despite all the inadequacies that were exacerbated in our broken medical system due to COVID, I fear we will return to an even more broken and divided...
View ArticleLocums Malpractice question
Anyone with experience doing locums cc shifts? What kind of insurance did the company provide? Claims-based v occurence? Can someone explain the difference? What should I be asking for? Thank you
View ArticleAnyone have the most recent MGMA compensation data?
Like the title says. I have the data for PCCM but looking for critical care only. Happy to share what I have if people are looking. Feel free to PM me if you don't want to just post the data (though I...
View ArticleSpending CME money
Hi! I’m finishing up residency and will be starting CC fellowship in July. I have about 500 bucks of CME money to use and no idea what to use it on. Any books, equipment, apps, etc that may be useful...
View ArticleMy Pay as an Intensivist - Then, now and to the future
When I came out of fellowship in 2009, I had a number of places vying for my services. I was interested in doing strictly critical care as an intensivist with no other specialty involvement. I had...
View ArticleInteresting study re coronaviruses
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985.pdf There is an interesting study from Nature Medicine 2015 that I was looking at. This is a basic science article but worth the read. This study basically...
View ArticleIcu situations and burn out
Let’s talk about some common situations that i’ve encountered working in the icu that contribute to burn out: -pt is s/p Egd for gi bleed, remains inubated, pumped with 150 mcg of neo by anesthesia...
View ArticleHow much of your practice is CYA?
I've known this for quite some time, but he really came to a head today. We had a kid (<10 years old) more or less dying of COVID and sepsis with significant myocardial depression (x3 vasoactives)....
View ArticleAnesthesia v IM CC
EM resident Subpar CV looking to do critical care. I would like to end up mostly doing micu / cicu. With current climate of EM I suspect that CC will become more competitive. I know there are some...
View ArticleCvicu
Hello everyone, As I’m looking into my first attending job one of the ones I’m interested in is a semi academic CVICU. Although not my top choice as in my training cv surgeons are tough to work with;...
View ArticleAny good? - Chest Critical Care Board Review (On Demand 2021)
Are the audio lectures / video any good for new critical care fellow or IM doc working frequently in the ICU? Looking for a good concise review of clinically relevant high return topics. Audio lectures...
View ArticleExperience with HCA/ICC
Hello all, I am considering some options for my first job out of fellowship, and one of the opportunities I am seriously considering is though ICC (Intensive Care Consortium) which is a subsidiary of...
View ArticlePossible to switch from CCM to PCCM?
Current PGY-4 CCM fellow. One of our Pulmonary Fellows may transfer out. We have CCM, Pulm, and PCCM tracks at our institution. Is it possible to get credit for PGY-4 in CCM and still complete PCCM in...
View ArticleAnyone used this for CCM boards?
Graduating soon and thinking about boards. Anyone used this? The Brigham Board Review in Critical Care Medicine - Oakstone Any other good recs?
View ArticleJob Interview
Hi all, I have my first attending job interview soon, it's just a zoom with two of the directors of each hospital I could potentially be at. I was just wondering if you all had pointers or suggestions....
View ArticleDual ACNP/CRNA
I am a licensed ACNP, primarily educated in critical care, and a present CRNA student. My end goal is to find a position that would allow me to function in a mid-level anesthesia/critical care type...
View ArticlePCCM Job Market for IMGs
Hi everyone, I'm an IMG (MBBS from India) who is currently a PGY-1 in an IM residency program in the US. I'm leaning towards PCCM and was wondering how my status as an IMG would affect my job offers...
View ArticleAny private practice critical care people who work with HCA?
If you’re willing to talk numbers mind DMing me? Looking at an RFP from them and am wondering what others are doing and how it went after the first few years.
View ArticleW2 salary question
currently in the job market negotiating a few contracts, I know there is MGMA data and medscape data it ranges between 366k to 447k What does this translate into hourly W2 rates? I’m sure it depends on...
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