Are there pulm jobs that are only inpatient?

[FunnyDocMan1234]

Outpatient pulm is fine but often boring (rising numbers of PCPs too lazy to manage basic asthma/COPD or order follow-up CTs for tiny lung nodules) and dealing with inbasket messages etc is a pain in the butt compared to the shift work model of consults and ICU.

If I want no outpatient pulm at all after fellowship am I limited pretty much to an intensivist-only career or is there a good job market for a MICU/pulm consults/procedures type of gig?

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[SRT 1983]

Yes , all sorts of jobs out there, more so for people ready to take ICU calls

 

[jdh71]

Outpatient pulm is fine but often boring (rising numbers of PCPs too lazy to manage basic asthma/COPD or order follow-up CTs for tiny lung nodules) and dealing with inbasket messages etc is a pain in the butt compared to the shift work model of consults and ICU.

If I want no outpatient pulm at all after fellowship am I limited pretty much to an intensivist-only career or is there a good job market for a MICU/pulm consults/procedures type of gig?

Ha! We are actually looking for a pulm BC/BE Intensivist for only in patient work (round/admit on the icu and see pulmonary consults).

I don’t know if you are still in training or not right now but that easy COPD and Nodule consult in the clinic are super awesome. I’d love a whole day filled with that stuff.