All of this is still not true in a most simple case, so getting job at a different hospital in the same specialization. Ex. in Poland most doctors are hired in multiple hospitals at the same time.
Genuinely curious how does this work? Do they get paid per the number of hospitals who hired them? How do they go to work? How do they know what hospital to go to?
PS. My wife is a doctor, and I had to live through what I described. So, none of that is invented, it's just what I see happen to her and to her colleagues. To make this more concrete, she was an attending in emergency department and wanted to switch to radiology. In her case this resulted in the full 4 years of study on top of about half a year of just showing up in the hospital and tagging along with the radiology team. (This was in Israel, one of the central hospitals). One of her colleagues was a transfer from internal medicine (also an attending), and he was doing 3 years of study to get into radiology. Another was a Russian emigrant doctor with about 10 years of practice from a hospital in St. Petersburg. He was also doing a 3 year of residency.
They also had two people drop out of the residency just during the year my wife was there (before she gave it up), and that's out of a group of six residents. One was a Brazilian emigrant, who eventually decided to go back to Brazil and another one was a guy who was an Israeli, but received his degree in Romania, which was cheaper, I guess. He just couldn't pull it up, and eventually was let go from the program.
The Russian guy was also on the verge of leaving due to some bad blood between him and the head of the department. The head was actively trying to sabotage him and make him leave for god knows what reason. The Russian guy though, despite having some sort of a chronic illness was spending multiple days in a row w/o leaving the hospital.
I mean, back to my original point: I saw nothing that could come close in the programming world. And the fuss people here make about home exercises is just a sign of being way, way overly privileged compared to the majority of the workforce. By which I don't mean to say programmers should suffer like everyone else, rather everyone else has to get better conditions. It's just of all people, presently, programmer should probably show more comradery with other paid workers instead of complaining about their own issues.
They have duty schedules, so they know where they should be at a given time. They have contracts signed with each hospital, like any employee. They can also work in private healthcare at the same time. It's just the case of setting up a schedules so they won't collide.
> she was an attending in emergency department and wanted to switch to radiology. In her case this resulted in the full 4 years of study on top of about half a year of just showing up in the hospital and tagging along with the radiology team.
That's normal because this is a specialization change. Not many doctors change specs or have more than one in most cases, at least in Poland.
