Blog posts pertaining to the practice of urology.
What career or financial advice would you give to current urology residents? We posed this question to urologists who filled out our Urologist Compensation Survey and compiled 50 of the responses below. You will notice that some of the advice is repetitive, which simply means it was given multiple times. That might be the advice to pay most attention to!
The topic of contracts and compensation comes up a lot. There are various strategies around compensation, but many of them revolve around Relative Value Units or RVUs. You have no doubt heard about RVUs in some context. But what are they and do they matter? Here I break down how RVUs are calculated and how they impact your paycheck.
Your ability to generate revenue in any type of practice depends highly on the throughput of the system. If the system is not designed correctly or if it’s not staffed sufficiently, then your clinic will be inefficient and sub-profitable no matter how hard or fast you work.