> Genuinely curious how does this work? Do they get paid per the number of hospitals who hired them? How do they go to work? How do they know what hospital to g

> Genuinely curious how does this work? Do they get paid per the number of hospitals who hired them? How do they go to work? How do they know what hospital to go to? They have duty schedules, so they know where they should be at a given time. They have contracts signed with each hospital, like any employee. They can also work in private healthcare at the same time. It's just the case of setting up a schedules so they won't collide. > she was an attending in emergency department and wanted to switch to radiology. In her case this resulted in the full 4 years of study on top of about half a year of just showing up in the hospital and tagging along with the radiology team. That's normal because this is a specialization change. Not many doctors change specs or have more than one in most cases, at least in Poland.