Beyond Training Employer Perspective 11 15 07 Dr Paul Hickey

							“Beyond Training”
Clinical Practice Track

“Getting Your First Job”
   Paul Hickey, M.D.
  Patrick Taylor, Esq.
      Getting Your First Job:
    The Employer’s Perspective
• Professional skills & areas of specialized
  knowledge/experience within field vs. department &
  institutional needs.
• Personality/attitude: “High maintenance” personality
  with ‘prima donna’ attitude creating problems vs. high
  contribution team player solving problems.
• Interpersonal skills & capacity for administrative
  compliance/contributions.
• Capacity for research contributions.
• Long term commitment & loyalty.
• Treatment of administrative & ancillary staff.
      Getting Your First Job:
The Employer/ Employee Relationship
• Must be based on mutual trust & good faith.

• Professional “marriage”

• Good faith general agreements vs formal contracts.

• Compensation Discussions
   – National standards: AAMC national and regional data by rank &
     specialty society data
   – Direct vs. indirect compensation: value of fringes
   – What happens after first year? What is academic promotion worth?
   – Incentive vs fixed compensation
   – Flexibility in discussions: i.e. trading signing bonuses or housing
     allowance for lower initial salary
   – Relation to external grants
   – Outside professional income
      Getting Your First Job:
The Employer/ Employee Relationship
• Other “compensation”
  –   office space and staff
  –   nonclinical time & support
  –   meeting time & vacation time
  –   hospital presence vs. working from home
  –   call obligations, etc.
• Explicit discussion of employer expectations
  about:
  –   professional behavior
  –   employment and hospital policies,
  –   board certification status and maintenance,
  –   medical licensure etc.