No one on their deathbed says, “I wish I had worked more.” Sure, being a physician is a big part of your life, but perhaps there are more important priorities. They want the lifestyle jobs with some flexibility. This is evident in the type of jobs that many of the residents I work with seem to be looking for. They are the brand, and if they don’t see patients, no one else can step in and do it for them.īut more and more, I see physicians come to the realization that their job is ultimately not their entire lives and look for a change. They end up working late on a daily basis and seeing their family for very small moments of time in any given week. Unfortunately for some, like my father, they just don’t have much flexibility in their schedules at their current positions. My father was a physician a surgeon in fact and I do remember him being quite busy even as a child (although I think he did a pretty tremendous job of trying to be home for dinner and taking us on family vacations). How many of us have heard stories of successful physicians who sacrificed their family lives to get where they are? Trying to balance the significant time commitment of our careers with a good family life is a huge challenge. Surely, it’s no surprise that doctors lead busy lives. Now let’s get to some of the pros and the cons of working part-time as a doctor. Either way, it’s taking what you do and cutting out a piece of it to devote to something else. Perhaps it’s a schedule without some weekend call or fewer nights. So in discussing part-time in this post, I refer to anything less than the expected full-time commitment of your position. Yet, you’d still be working what’s normal to the general population. Imagine cutting 25% of your clinical time right now, it would seem drastic and life-altering. 75 FTE, that would still put them around 40 hours, which is full-time for most other people. If a typical physician were to cut down 25% of their working time to.
This includes patient care as well as the ever-increasing time for paperwork. I’m sure it varies according to specialty and the type of practice you’re in, but it seems across many surveys, the average amount of time working is between 50-60 hours a week.
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