Some positions have opened up for me at VA hospitals as a pain physician. This would be my first job out of training. I know VAs can be bureaucratic and lower volume than non-gov jobs, but certain aspects are attractive, such as definite salary, no production pressure, limited obstacles to offering interventions of my choosing since no prior auth, good benefits and time off. Downsides as far as I can see are CPRS, salary ceiling, slowness and culture of staff, difficulty of moving from lower volume environment to higher volume environment in case switch out of VA later on. I'm PM&R background but would work as an interventional pain physician (ACGME fellowship trained).
What are people's thoughts/experiences with a VA pain job? I know it's also very site specific. As they say, 'when you've seen one VA, you've seen one VA'.
What are people's thoughts/experiences with a VA pain job? I know it's also very site specific. As they say, 'when you've seen one VA, you've seen one VA'.