Moonlighting in ortho residency

[smr]

I found some old threads on this but does anyone have any new insight into how much moonlighting if any is possible during ortho residency? I imagine it varies between programs but it would be interesting to have a basic idea. Is it common, impossible tc?

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[Innocent2]

Virtually impossible.

 

[0ncogene]

Our program allows for moonlighting during 4th and 5th year. I usually do about 1 weekend per month.

 

[tymont12]

Very program specific. Of the couple places I know that have moonlighting, they are internal and only available for the chiefs, not even the 4s. However, they are pretty lucrative and require minimal work.

 

[ChiDO]

We had internal moonlighting. Can start as a pgy2, but get basically no hours.. Usually one shift to cover you license cost. Pgy3 get holidays or shifts the 4/5s didn't want. By pgy5, you can make 15-25k extra.

I think it's rare to have external moonlighting

 

[TRT7]

Several residents in my program moonlighted using NES. It was all emergency department staffing. During my research year, I did 60 hour weekend shifts in a small resort town's 4 bed hospital. The pay was good, and included a plane tickets, because it would have been a 6 hour drive. There was medicine, peds, and surgery backup on call. Bigger trauma got loaded on a helicopter and transported to a level 2 center 150 miles away. In later years, I also did 12 hour weekend shifts at an Air Force base hospital. It was very, very lucrative; occasionally NES would call at the last minute offering double their normal rate, because someone bailed out on them.

Our program had no specific regulations prohibiting this.