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Docs Outside The Box

Meet Dr. Trevor: Nomadic Pediatric, Making Ortho Surgery Money, $300K Student Debt Loan Slayer #292

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

Career, Education, Doctor, Medicine, Careers, Job, Business, Health & Fitness, Finance, Investing, Premed, Black, Money, Lifestyle, Mindset

4.9516 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Nii sits down with Trevor Cabrera, who completed his residency training in General Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and then transitioned to working as an exclusive Locum Tenens provider. Listen in as Dr. Cabrera, also known as The Nomadic Pediatrician, talks about his first locum job, paying off student loans, the lifestyle locum work affords him, and his blog that do...

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0:00.0

Did you know Locum's docs make, on average, 33% more than employed docs?

0:07.0

Got your attention now?

0:08.9

So, if you're considering Locum tenants, either full-time or on the side, you probably have a question, or two, or maybe even 20.

0:17.7

Locomstory.com is packed with unbiased information and tools to see what the trends are in your specialty and even make a decision if locums is right for you.

0:28.4

My advice, make locumstory.com the go-to place to learn more about locum tenants.

0:34.7

That's locum story.com.

0:39.7

All right, Dr. Trevor Cabrera, the nomadic physician. What's up? Was good. Welcome to docs

0:44.9

outside the box. How you doing? Good. How are you? Good. Where are you located at, man?

0:49.4

Currently, I'm in Augusta, Maine, Central Maine. Central Maine. So when I think of Augusta, I think about Georgia. But, okay, so there isn't Augusta in Maine. It looks like, for those who are watching on YouTube, it looks like he's in an extended stay. It has that typical appearance of you got the hotel door with the exit right behind you, the exit map behind you, and then you got microwave refrigerator and all the things that

1:11.4

you need to do, a mini-kitchenette. Stove top there, yeah. Stove top, so you can cook if you're

1:15.4

going to be there for an extended period of time. So you are a Locum's pediatric physician,

1:22.8

and let's jump right into this. How long have you been doing Locums now? I'm actually a relative new grad, so I've been doing it since I finished residency 2020.

1:31.0

And I mean like immediately started straight into locums, did nothing else right out of training.

1:36.0

Okay. So all you know is locums coming out of fellowship or coming out of residency.

1:40.9

So kind of. Not entirely actually. So I meant to. I meant to do purely low gums,

1:47.0

but because of COVID, pediatrics took a huge hit. So unlike the rest of the world,

1:51.9

seen tons of people getting sick in medicine. Kids stayed home. They didn't get sick as often.

1:56.6

So the census for us went down. So actually, when I started working, I couldn't find work,

2:01.5

consistent work for several months. I lived paycheck to paycheck. I lived like month to month

2:07.1

waiting for locum work. I thought about quitting. Wait, quitting what? Quitting locus. I thought

2:12.6

about going to a permanent job because I couldn't find work. So that was 2020 for me. I literally,

2:17.1

it would be the end

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