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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not go work for the VA?  Then you would get fed parental leave and the same amount of vacation and sick leave that other feds get.  Many fed supervisors will also let you take unpaid leave after you exceed the paid time off if you don't have any more leave.[/quote]

OP is an ob/gyn.  The VA's patient population is really heavily male and elderly.  I think what many of you are missing is that physician roles are in large part not interchangeable.  My husband is a VA physician and for years hired physicians for the VA.  For primary care, the VA wants board-certified internists.  That would require OP doing another 3 year residency.  The VA is not hiring ob/gyns for these roles.  Sure, each VA medical center has a few ob/gyns on staff to do gyn surgeries and menopausal care but they outsource all ob care.

I work as a physician in value-based care (insurance work).  We hire physicians that have done this for their entire career.  Public health departments generally want doctors with public health training (i.e an MPH).  ERs (in urban areas) only want board-certified ER physicians who have completed ER medicine residencies.  (Some rural ER still use family medicine physicians or whoever they can get but even this is changing).  My brother is an ER physician and I wouldn't have the first clue how to do his job. Urgent cares will take internists/family medicine doctors but OP is neither of those.

OP's situation is far from hopeless but it isn't the instant fix that some of you are making it.  When my company hires for a physician role we get hundreds of resumes from physicians seeking to leave clinical work.  We can generally pick someone with the very specific experience we want---a generalist who has then spent a career from residency on working in value-based care.  We don't hire a random ob/gyn. [/quote]

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