Start: ASAP
AK license can be pending
Case Load/Type: Multi-specialty Ortho, including total joints, ENT, gen SG , Colonoscopy, EGD, Ophthalmology, podiatry As an ASC Monday - Friday No call
Nerve Blocks: Spinal Popliteal Interscalene genicular Femoral Some also have On-Q ( that's primarily documentation issue for billing the use of the On-Q ball)
Comfortable practicing independently
Comfortable doing nerve blocks
Types of cases - ambulatory surg center so no big complicated cases like a hospital
1 day a month the neuro ortho surgeon does 1 Thursday a month, but they may have someone to cover that
A lot of general surgery, hernias, eyes, ears, sinus, ortho general, colonoscopies, do NOT do urology
Patients per day: varies - last year they did 2800 annually
Hours
Procedures start at 7:30 would need to be there at 7 the latest, just to be ready at 7:30
Occasionally OT - time and a half - anything over 40 in a week or 8 in a day
Credentialing: they do their own - can get the committees together quickly - Alaska does primary source verifications on all licensed - so we can do this in days
