Changing careers is never easy, especially when you’ve spent years mastering a demanding profession. If you’re a physician thinking about stepping away from clinical practice, you might feel overwhelmed by the idea of starting over. But what if I told you that your career could evolve in a way that builds on your expertise, passion, and skills without losing your identity? This is where the concept of the third evolution in careers comes into play. It’s about more than just

Seeking a non-clinical job is a different world from working with medical recruiters. Your focus is on being active, proactive and building a strong value proposition for yourself, while effectively communicating your Intelligence, your Background and your Personality.  Seeking a non-clinical job is a different world from working with medical recruiters. I’m writing this post because I just received this email: Hello,My name is Dr. John Doe. I am a board certified internist.

This exercise should advance your thinking regarding not just what’s out there, but better yet, what you want to be doing. If you have interests, skills and Knowledge that align, you have a career definition and objective. It’s the most common and consistent question I’m asked and the most visited title page on my web site. It’s also a topic I’ve written about more than once before and I’m likely to continue approaching this same question from different perspectives. So, here

If you're wanting to leave clinical practice, you need to adjust your perspective towards communicating with others. Your job is to make as many connections as possible and to remove the common physician roadblocks that keep people from contacting you. Transitioning from clinical practice to a nonclinical role is a challenging process. I know, I've helped more than a thousand physicians achieve that goal. However, there's no need to make the process more difficult or challeng

Just like our global economy, in career change, transition and management, everything is interconnected. Always look for the interconnectedness of every opportunity, networking interaction or job offer. Openness inspires growth, compartmentalization creates barriers.  Working with clients I often find them seeing opportunity as either/or, rather than all of the above . However, if you look at most of what we encounter today, nearly everything is interconnected. The same shoul

You can either sit at your computer endlessly applying for jobs or you can build a successful and effective network of key people in the new, nonclinical career field you want to enter. Which do you think is more successful? More and more physicians today are employed by large systems, medical groups, payor organizations and other management groups. What that means is this... searching for a nonclinical job is a challenge. Yes, it is, but it's not an insurmountable one. You p

Greatest Generation, Boomers, Gen X, Millennials... as the generations separate from one another their distinctions become more and more important to shaping the practice of medicine. Unfortunately, the education, training and practice of medicine have proven tone-deaf and unable to keep up. That's why so many physicians are seeking to leave practice today.    There was a time when physicians sought to emulate their predecessors, if not in actual practice and procedures, cert

How many times have you recounted a bad situation, a bad conversation, some negative event, to have the person you're speaking with ask simply, " Can you prove that? " If you've made and kept accurate file notes, the answer is, yes. This is how you protect yourself. By now everyone is familiar with the use or mis-use (depending on your political orientation) of Contemporaneous Memos/File Notes, etc.... Here is the reality, however. Contemporaneous Memos, Notes, Emails can be