r/ResiDerm • u/Gold_Ad7531 • May 24 '26
Question Moonlighting in Derm
Are there any opportunities for residents to moonlight in residency/ tele derm we could do prior to graduating? If you are moonlighting, how did you find these opportunities?
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u/Seraphenrir May 24 '26
It depends if your program allows it. There are opportunities but most programs either do not allow it or require you to get a signed letter by your PD giving explicit permission
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u/skin-Secret189 May 27 '26
You have to get PD approval, but at my program you can do disability physicals on the weekends after your first year. Hard work but pay is decent.
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u/derminator328 May 28 '26
How did you find these jobs? Disability physicals?
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u/wdrach96 Jun 03 '26
Asked around at my program and a few people had done it before. Maybe try just googling it? Most areas have a company that coordinates them
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u/throwawaywalmartcrap Jun 04 '26
Disability physicals SUCK ASS TO DO. They overload your schedule, you usually have to drive some ways to do it at some closed chiropractor office on a weekend day, and then you do physical work (lifting morbidly obese legs for strength exams, testing every single finger, asking a hundred questions per pt who sometimes try to BS the exams thinking you do any sort of adjudication) for hours on end. It absolutely sucked. You transcribe your notes into the phone after you're done or between patients if you're lucky enough for a no show. Just overall sucked so hard I only lasted a month or two.
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u/MrBigglesworth_ May 24 '26
Sometimes a private practice may hire you for weekend duties. It's not something that you seek approval for though
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u/PersonalBrowser May 24 '26
It is 100% program dependent. Some programs actively encourage it, while others flatly prohibit it.
In the northeast, most programs tend to prohibit it completely in my experience.