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Job Hunting in Radiology - A Primer for the Radiologist
. . . Issues for the 21st Century . . .
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Business and Medicine

For several years, the radiologist is in teaching, discovering the Medicine part. Years of grueling stress and pressure, striving, reaching. Days and days, even weeks and weeks, working straight through, up all night, etc. And often with no interim day off. It’s been all about Medicine. Years and years spent learning clinical medicine.

Immediately it’s time for Business, serious business. It’s time to gaze at the business side of the medical profession. It’s time to the discover the way to venture out into the practice of medicine, the way to implement all those clinical skills into a dominating clinical practice, a practice which can sustain you and your loved ones for the length of your career.

For the young radiologist, the employment search can be the first introduction to the business side of the medical profession, after several years spent on discovering the clinical side of the medical profession. Years are spent on the clinical aspects of the profession and virtually no time spent on the business side.

Initially, job hunting can seem similar to a lark, a delightful relief, like selecting candy in Fowler’s Confectionery. We assume theres no wrong choice. However the assumption doesn't dissuade us from due diligence, does it? We analyze the candy selection, taking much delight while gazing at the marvelous candies on display. Good fun.

Au contraire, job searching isn't a visit to the candy store. Bad choices are effortlessly made when job searching. Due diligence is the mantra. Look under each rock, or at least understand there's rock under which you ought to look, and have not looked. Slice and dice the prospective jobs into several parameters and compare them objectively, absent the rose colored glasses. Done properly, the analysis can make the selection oh so sweet, amongst radiologist being nicely matched to the new employer. Absent a thorough investigation, disaster can be the outcome of the employment search. To wit, job browsing through the second time is a great deal less fun than the 1st time.

Pushing the metaphor, it’s very likely to be unhappy walking out of Fowler’s Confectionery. Spend a number of thoughtful time at the candy counter prior to you select. Consume additional time, more thoughtfully, in the employment search.

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At the finish of my residency in 1975, CT scan and ultrasound were coming on line, to the good excitement of the majority of us. For certain, we did not fully understand their value, however we were excited by the new technology. All types of predictions were made regarding the future of these modalities.

A number of submitted that pneumoencephalography would be supplanted. Envision that. No more pneumoencephalograms!

Regardless of the imaging modalities themselves, what we failed to comprehend at the time was the potential cost of the fundamental piece of equipment at the heart of these modalities. We did not realize the good potential of the pc. We did not see the cost of data management and analysis, the basic applications of the pc. We just saw the outcome of the pc's analysis - we saw the subdural hematoma, the CVA, and the SAH. We saw the gall stones, and the in utero fetus.

To be honest, these new modalities and the pc were not tops on the record of daily chatter at the time. Rather, we spent more time fretting regarding the job market. Everybody wished to know where all the other people was going after the residency, and why they're going there. By and large, the solution was location, location, location. While there were minor differences in the jobs themselves, the variations were considered minimal or insignificant. It was basically about location. Jobs in those days were hospital based, and not particularly complicated. Do the work, do it well, do it efficiently and on time. The job was straight forward, predictable, even boringly so.

So there we sat, amongst ACR's job posting, waiting for the following monthly updated listings. Our interest was focused on the job market. The fancy new CT and ultrasound modalities were pleasantly interesting, however of secondary interest compared to the necessity of finding a job.

Unbeknownst to us at the finish of our residency, we were witnessing the ignition of an explosive growth of the pc in medical imaging. Multi-slice helical CT, digital subtraction, MRI and PACS can have been a research scientist's dream, however they were not on our radar screen at the time. For us, searching for a job was the large deal, and the looking was location, location, location. Move back home, move to the mountains, move to NYC, etc. Do not worry about new imaging modalities; they'll catch up to us, wherever we move.

In the ensuing decades, pc technology and applications have expanded geometrically. Computers no longer merely make images. Immediately, they're basic to image storage and retrieval (PACS), demographics, reports and billing (RIS), and even dictation of reports (digital dictation, voice recognition). Everywhere we turn in the imaging dept., a pc is involved.

The growth of the pc in imaging has resulted in a large expansion in the business of imaging. The monetary requirements to develop an imaging service have risen dramatically over time, such that medical imaging is no longer a mom and pop business. The landscape of medical imaging is no longer an easy medical office in the local medical arts building. Rather, it has become a sophisticated business with promoting, management, cash flow projections, and tough work. Private loan guarantees (ugh!) aren't uncommon. Millions of bucks can be invested in a medical imaging office, and money flow demands can be large amongst employment of a complete cadre of supporting staff to maintain the business afloat, and the money flowing. Mom and pop are seen less frequently these days, being replaced by more sophisticated business types.

Since the business of medical imaging has transformed so dramatically, job hunting is no longer a query of getting the ACR's job posting and doing the location thing. Nowadays, it can be about searching for a job with a corporation, much as your buddy can have completed when he looked at Kodak or Dupont, General Electric or Boeing. Nowadays, it's about looking at the corporate structure of the prospective employer while, at an identical time, looking at the professional aspects of the job. Does this new job have a strong corporate structure and a valid business outline? Is this entity going to hold together long enough to meet your professional and non-professional needs? Would you be prepared to invest your saved up cash in the business at the time of partnership purchase in? Or would the NASDAQ be a safer bet? How regarding the mattress or the cookie jar?

For the class of 1975, life was simpler. We needed to know earnings and location. The majority of other issues were just distractions. What, we would have asked, is corporate structure, and who cares anyway? We were not going into business. We were going out to practice medicine. In those days, the 2 did not coexist.

Oh, have times changed!
Welcome to Business and Medicine.
DFH



Job Hunting in Radiology - A Primer for the Radiologist
. . . Issues for the 21st Century . . .
27 page electronic book

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