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Moonlighting by Psychiatric Residents

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Moonlighting by house staff, including psychiatric house staff, has stimulated controversy, but few objective reports. We mailed questionnaires to residents at 133 psychiatric training programs in order to investigate the extent and types of moonlighting, and the relationship between moonlighting and financial, personal, and program variables. Of 3745 questionnaires mailed, 1013 (27 percent) were returned. Close to one half of all the responding psychiatrists-in-training have worked outside their training programs. Most moonlighted moderately, with moonlighting residents tending to have significantly greater financial responsibilities than non-moonlighting residents.

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  1. Penn Foundation for Mental Health, Inc., 807 Lawn Ave., Sellersville, PA, 18960, USA

    David Buch M.D. & Melvin S. Swanson Ph.D.

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  1. David Buch M.D.
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This work, carried out while the senior author was a resident, could not have been undertaken without the generous financial support of the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, East Carolina University. The authors thank Ms. Joni McLawhorn and Ms. Terry Harrison for their assistance in managing this project.

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Buch, D., Swanson, M.S. Moonlighting by Psychiatric Residents. Acad Psychiatry 10, 247–254 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399967

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