How many hours a week?

[NurseMD]

How many hours a week can a radiologist expect to work? Especially neuroradiologist...

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[Docxter]

How many hours a week can a radiologist expect to work? Especially neuroradiologist...

1. There is no good answer to this question, just because of the extreme variability across the board. It depends on your practice, the number of partners, outpatient imaging center only vs. hospital only vs. hospital+outpatient imaging center combo practice, whether the hospital is a level I or II trauma center, whether you do emergent neuroangio or not, whether you have separate dedicated night coverage (either rotating partners, teleradiology, locums) or not, whther you are at an academic institution and have residents or fellows covering, referral patterns, how busy your referring physicians are, how hard working or lazy your referring physicians are, etc.

2. According to the official AMA statistics, these are the average work hours for practicing physicians in different specialties:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=101722


3. In reality, full-time "neuroradiology" jobs are extremely rare outside of academia. In private practice, assuming you like to do neuroradiology, if you get to do 75% neuro and 25% other non-neuroradiology stuff, you would consider yourself very very lucky.

4. If you will be doing neurointerventions, you should expect to work much more.