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Look at this ad from CAP: We are looking for a Board certified or Board eligible pathologist to join our group of six private hospital based practice pathologists in [REDACTED]. The job can either be a partnership or non-partnership track position. We provide coverage for three area community hospitals that have a combined capacity of 672 beds. The hospitals have a combined surgical pathology workload of 17247 cases, 11113 gynecologic smears and 1923 non-gynecologic cytology cases. AP/CP experience is preferred, as is subspecialty training.
Those numbers make no sense. 17K surgicals across 6 FTEs is 2800 per FTE. 2800. That is like 2 months of work. What are they are doing for the other 10 months per year?? Knocking down 1800 pap smears per guy/gal? Wow. Stop the presses at CAP, they are massively short staffed at the moment...
This is absurd. At that volume they need 3 guys. THREE. Dump the paps to Quest if they are dragging your admin time into the sewer. They are the lowest margin of all possible work aside from ROSE when you account for the cost of the cytotech etc.
Currently, I think most groups are in pseudo retirement mode or something.
At 7 guys, they are looking at 12, TWELVE cases per day*. Assuming 5 cases are GI biopsies, 3 are routine surgicals like gallbladders, appendix etc, 2 routine derm and 2 are subspec/oncology cases that is MAYBE MAYBE 30 minutes of work. What are they are gonna do for the other 6-7 hours?? Sip coffee? Attend meetings? Read SDN? Comment on cat videos on youtube???
Current manning in Pathology is bonkers. So feel free to ignore all this nonsense about a huge pathology shortage, we have MILES to go folks.
*17000 cases/200 workdays per year/7 FTEs = 12.14285 cases per day per FTE. If you make the assumption one FTE is always on vacation (6-7 weeks of vacation per year), then its a whopping 14.16666 cases per day per FTE.
7 weeks of vacation and 30 minutes of work a day when you do put on pants and show up? Seriously??
Those numbers make no sense. 17K surgicals across 6 FTEs is 2800 per FTE. 2800. That is like 2 months of work. What are they are doing for the other 10 months per year?? Knocking down 1800 pap smears per guy/gal? Wow. Stop the presses at CAP, they are massively short staffed at the moment...
This is absurd. At that volume they need 3 guys. THREE. Dump the paps to Quest if they are dragging your admin time into the sewer. They are the lowest margin of all possible work aside from ROSE when you account for the cost of the cytotech etc.
Currently, I think most groups are in pseudo retirement mode or something.
At 7 guys, they are looking at 12, TWELVE cases per day*. Assuming 5 cases are GI biopsies, 3 are routine surgicals like gallbladders, appendix etc, 2 routine derm and 2 are subspec/oncology cases that is MAYBE MAYBE 30 minutes of work. What are they are gonna do for the other 6-7 hours?? Sip coffee? Attend meetings? Read SDN? Comment on cat videos on youtube???
Current manning in Pathology is bonkers. So feel free to ignore all this nonsense about a huge pathology shortage, we have MILES to go folks.
*17000 cases/200 workdays per year/7 FTEs = 12.14285 cases per day per FTE. If you make the assumption one FTE is always on vacation (6-7 weeks of vacation per year), then its a whopping 14.16666 cases per day per FTE.
7 weeks of vacation and 30 minutes of work a day when you do put on pants and show up? Seriously??
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