Beyond Training Employer Perspective 11 15 07 Dr Paul Hickey
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“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.
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