I have found that this level of detail is rarely shared with current residents, but hopefully this helps provide a glimpse into the actual process of negotiating your own physician contract for your first job out of residency.
Step-by-step guide for a resident physician to obtain disability insurance, with comments from my own experience (for reference, this policy was designed for me as a female 30 year old resident, nonsmoker)
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