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How to decide on specialty
#11
I guess SCS is Functional too.
That is the only way Functional is attractive for pp
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#12
Spine and functional sounds like a good move. Have seen many examples successfully hired. Likely because they can cover their own salary most of the time. Probably comes with a nice pay raise as well.
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#13
No one in PP is gonna give out a pay raise just cuz you did a functional fellowship. Why would they pay more for a field no one cares about, that doesn’t bill well, and that realistically will only divert a surgeons attention away from what matter (spine). The only people who care about functional are other functional nerds.

If you do a spine or vascular fellowship, then yes they will pay you more, because those are high billing procedures (or they’ll be glad to have you in a call pool). Functional guys are fairly useless.
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#14
(08-04-2022, 11:02 AM)Guest Wrote: No one in PP is gonna give out a pay raise just cuz you did a functional fellowship. Why would they pay more for a field no one cares about, that doesn’t bill well, and that realistically will only divert a surgeons attention away from what matter (spine). The only people who care about functional are other functional nerds.

If you do a spine or vascular fellowship, then yes they will pay you more, because those are high billing procedures (or they’ll be glad to have you in a call pool). Functional guys are fairly useless.

No fellowship results in increased pay. You will be paid based on what you bring in. If you hate the idea of having a significant other or a family, then you will be paid better for taking stroke call on top of neurosurgery call. Otherwise, the only purpose of a fellowship from a private practice perspective is to generate a wider referral base.
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#15
There are plenty of examples of spine+functional people who are productive and successful. Sharan, Ponce, Fenoy
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