u/Confident_Abroad_353

Hi friends,

Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

In summary, I work as a PCP within a federal institution (to put it one way). My salary is nothing to brag about. However, I see about 16 patients per day and work 4 days / week (with 3 day weekends), no call, no evening clinic, no other duties. My panel is still relatively small (about 50% of total capacity).

Now, recently, I was offered a leadership position within this institution where I would basically oversee several dozen physicians and "put out fires" as the current boss put it. I'd be working under him -- would effectively be in the #2 or #3 position within this sector of the institution.

The positives: it would come with roughly a $50k increase to salary and reduce my patient facing time to seeing about 10-12 patients per week (down from 64). The drawbacks: I'd have to work 5 days / week (no more 3 day weekends), steep learning curve, no prior administrative experience.

On one end, I want to pursue this so I can "get out of" patient-facing care (I'm burnt out as a relatively fresh physician already). On the other end, I want my 3 day weekends (gives me tremendous flexibility), but I'm not sure when an opportunity like this will present itself again.

Curious what you would do? Any thoughts would be helpful, I don't know who else to ask!

Hi friends,

Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

In summary, I work as a PCP within a federal institution (to put it one way). My salary is nothing to brag about, especially on this subreddit. However, I see about 16 patients per day and work 4 days / week (with 3 day weekends), no call, no evening clinic, no other duties. My panel is still relatively small (about 50% of total capacity).

Now, recently, I was offered a leadership position within this institution where I would basically oversee several dozen physicians and "put out fires" as the current boss put it. I'd be working under him -- would effectively be in the #2 or #3 position within this sector of the institution.

The positives: it would come with roughly a $50k increase to salary and reduce my patient facing time to seeing about 10-12 patients per week (down from 64). The drawbacks: I'd have to work 5 days / week (no more 3 day weekends), steep learning curve, no prior administrative experience.

On one end, I want to pursue this so I can "get out of" patient-facing care (I'm burnt out as a relatively fresh physician already). On the other end, I want my 3 day weekends (gives me tremendous flexibility), but I'm not sure when an opportunity like this will present itself again.

Curious what you would do? Any thoughts would be helpful, I don't know who else to ask!