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corgeous

Questions about private practice cardiac anesthesia

Hey everyone,

I'm a CA-2 who has been interested in cardiac for a long time and I am trying to make my decision on fellowship or not over the next couple of months. I have done 2 months of cardiac so far and it has lived up to my expectations - it's definitely the corner of anesthesia that I am most interested in and excited about. My program is a big cardiac center and we do lots of transplants, MCS, late/overnight cases, etc, which I find super interesting but I don't think I want to do as an attending. Our attendings work way more than I want to, and it's ultimately important to me that I'm home with my wife and family at night instead of in the hospital doing transplants overnight. Rather, I think that PP cardiac sounds like an amazing gig because I would be very happy doing my own cases, doing more bread and butter cardiac + thoracic + vascular + some general/OB sounds like an awesome mix, not doing overnight disasters, and overall doing interesting work but with a good work/life balance. Problem is, I've never really seen the PP anesthesia world and don't know much about it. I'm curious if PP cardiac attendings could tell me a little about their group, hours, case mix, call burden, and overall work satisfaction? How hard is it to find a good PP cardiac job compared to generalist? Thanks guys.

Posted Jul 22, 2023, 11:22 PM UTC

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