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Long story short:
I did nucs residency in a University Hospital, also did a PET fellowship in the same place.
I have been out of fellowship for almost 2 years and I was not able to get even 1 interview for nucs.
I have been bouncing around general physicians jobs since the completion of my training. I did home assesments, house calls, medicare stuff with censeohealth but nothing really worked. There is no job stabiltity. I'm constantly looking for the next job. This reality really sucks! I spent years studying, residency, fellowship and I have nothing, no job stability, no future, zero expectations. I'm contemplating the posibility of applying to residency again.
Nobody in medicine really knows how bad is to be unemployed after all the years spent on your training.
This has to stop, residency programs for nucs should be closed, all of them, without exceptions. PD and hospitals use cheap labor and make money from medicare, just from having a couple of residents working for them. They will make you read and report all the studies, write papers, present conferences, presentations, work your ass off for NOTHING!
Residencies are still opened because the abuse the system, as simple as that.
SERIOUSLY, STAY AWAY FROM NUCS!
There are no jobs for pure nuclear medicine physicians, don't let PDs and radiology departments use you.
If you cannot get another specialty and the only option is nucs, do not do it, try to get into psych or wound care or something else.
Honestly my professional life sucks! Don't be stupid and stat away from Nucs.
I did nucs residency in a University Hospital, also did a PET fellowship in the same place.
I have been out of fellowship for almost 2 years and I was not able to get even 1 interview for nucs.
I have been bouncing around general physicians jobs since the completion of my training. I did home assesments, house calls, medicare stuff with censeohealth but nothing really worked. There is no job stabiltity. I'm constantly looking for the next job. This reality really sucks! I spent years studying, residency, fellowship and I have nothing, no job stability, no future, zero expectations. I'm contemplating the posibility of applying to residency again.
Nobody in medicine really knows how bad is to be unemployed after all the years spent on your training.
This has to stop, residency programs for nucs should be closed, all of them, without exceptions. PD and hospitals use cheap labor and make money from medicare, just from having a couple of residents working for them. They will make you read and report all the studies, write papers, present conferences, presentations, work your ass off for NOTHING!
Residencies are still opened because the abuse the system, as simple as that.
SERIOUSLY, STAY AWAY FROM NUCS!
There are no jobs for pure nuclear medicine physicians, don't let PDs and radiology departments use you.
If you cannot get another specialty and the only option is nucs, do not do it, try to get into psych or wound care or something else.
Honestly my professional life sucks! Don't be stupid and stat away from Nucs.