Finding a job - Alarm signs

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Any other advice?

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If you are inclined to “take a job” in “rural” anything, or small town anything, do your homework thoroughly, talk to all the people there and the previous people there.

The issue with taking a job in a small market like that, if you have a family, is this: they hire you with a salary guarantee for one or two years. Come year 3 you have to make your salary but there are no cases, because the population is sparse. So your salary gets cut in half. And the only way to know the patient volumes is to talk to people around who either have been there or people in the neighboring cities. You really should do the same amount of work for your job search that you did for selecting your residency program, if not more work. This is super important.

You can connect with people online and really in this day and age, most neurosurgeons would be more than happy to talk to you and stir you clear of disasters.