r/DermatologyPA

Now I don’t mean fun as a joyful, yay I’m so giddy type thing but does it get repetitive and boring?
Last year in Japan, my mom got some type of temporary cosmetic surgery, which really interested me that I sort of researching on it and I wanted to be a derm pa so I could eventually switch to aesthetics, but I wasn’t sure if that was a very good option.
I would prefer preferably like the practices done in East Asia to research about during college or even my career or just have a stable job to go in my free time and observe.
I know PA school is very hard and that’s what I’m most cautious about because I’m already having a B in chemistry as a sophomore which sucks cause if I’m going into healthcare, I feel like I should do better.
Is the job itself alright? Is the job growth gonna go up? I have a lot of questions lol

How do you all go about treating these patients? Depends on the patient obviously, but being a younger, small female I feel like it’s particularly difficult to get through to these patients. I find it even harder when its two patients in one room 🫠

I’m a new grad PA considering a position in dermatology at a private practice in a MCOL area. I’m trying to figure out whether this compensation structure is reasonable and what I should be asking/negotiating before signing.
Here’s the offer:
Base salary: $60k
$10k sign-on bonus
20% of net collections after a $50k/month TIP (threshold)
They told me the $50k/month threshold covers my overhead
They said they are confident I will reach the $50k/month threshold even as a new grad.
First 3 months are training/onboarding, and they told me I should not expect to generate meaningful revenue during that period
After training: 4 days/week
Expected volume is 3–6 patients/hour, with ~5 patients/hour being the average for providers there
$1,000 CME
benefits are otherwise fairly standard.
What I’m struggling to understand is how realistic the compensation actually is once I’m fully ramped up. I know collections-based compensation can vary a lot depending on payer mix, procedures, coding, cancellations/no-shows, etc. Any advice on what I should do? TIA.

I have been at this practice for about 1.5 years and my schedule is still not completely booked up, depending on the months and days but some days in certain locations I am seeing abput 15 patients daily, sometimes only 12 even. Reading some of these posts it seems like people are jumping into 30 patients daily (I wish). Has anyone experienced this before? And also what are your guy's recommendations for advertisement?