Outpatient career after "neurohospitalist"

[ProffesorOakDO]

Hello, I was wondering how feasible it would be to do an unspecified amount of years in neruohospitalist and then transition to a more outpatient neurology. NH is 7on-7 off typically which can wear you down after several years...
I also feel like both are kinda different and tend to see different things.

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[Postictal Raiden]

Very doable. I’ve seen few make such transition. I think I will do that at some point down the line too.

Doing the opposite (outpatient to inpatient) may not be as smooth of a transition, but I also know someone who did that. Transitioned from doing outpatient, mainly headache, to inpatient general neuro. It was a very bumpy start but it got better.

 

[Aldertonghen]

Hello, I was wondering how feasible it would be to do an unspecified amount of years in neruohospitalist and then transition to a more outpatient neurology. NH is 7on-7 off typically which can wear you down after several years...
I also feel like both are kinda different and tend to see different things.

Does NH really have to be so demanding though? I mean, at my place during the “on” weeks there are 3 neuro hospitalists serving a few hospitals, and on the weekends one of them takes call for all the hospitals, and the other two come in at 7, round by 11-12 and leave (and don’t take call on weekends). I don’t think that’s a particularly demanding schedule overall especially with resident coverage.

I can see myself doing subspecialty clinic/EMG but general outpatient neuro outside of headache (which is weird but I like headaches and Botox/nerve blocks) is not fun.

 

[JumpingLumberjacksofMaine]

Very doable. I’ve seen few make such transition. I think I will do that at some point down the line too.

Doing the opposite (outpatient to inpatient) may not be as smooth of a transition, but I also know someone who did that. Transitioned from doing outpatient, mainly headache, to inpatient general neuro. It was a very bumpy start but it got better.

I wonder if this is a mutual friend. In the Carolinas by any chance?

 

[Postictal Raiden]

Haha no, on the other side of the US map