NonClinical Careers for Physicians™ Podcast

Podcast Comment/Question Every year, medical groups and hospital systems invest thousands of dollars sending brilliant clinicians to workshops, seminars, and executive programs. Their objective is to create Leaders, but the product is actually making practitioners managers, managers of areas where they generally lack expertise, knowledge or the time and interest to excel. What's the alternative? Listen and I'll share my insights from 40 years of sometimes successful and sometimes unsucc...

Podcast Comment/Question Physicians tend to be logical thinkers who follow logical mostly linear pathways to solve problems and to be successful. However, that thought process can stymie successful transitions to interesting and rewarding nonclinical jobs. After all, leaving practice is a decidedly non-linear activity. So, don't try to make it one. Think creatively to make the most of your nonclinical career transition.

Podcast Comment/Question Failure is not a word you want to hear when planning to leave clinical practice, but physician career transitions to fail. The reasons are simple, and you actually know each one. After all, career transitions fail for the same reasons patients fail in their recovery, fail to avoid avoidable disease, fail to thrive. Listen to this podcast and you'll understand. Listen and you may be better able to answer your own question, "Will my career transition be successful?"

Podcast Comment/Question From working with the Big 4 to Boutique firms, you do have choice, and a choice may be to be your on consultancy. What format is best for you is a decision you can make and one you can also modify. Regardless, whether in an organization or on your own, you will need to define your brand as a foundation for your demand. But, once your your way, managing your business will be come more important as you determine your growth, your change, and your future.

Podcast Comment/Question From defining consulting and consultants to understanding a successful consulting business structure to taking the right steps to be able to state your preferred consulting focus, this is the first of a series of podcasts predicated on transition from medical practice to the world of consulting.

Podcast Comment/Question If you've lost your license you need to take definitive action to understand your situation, the actions and work required to determine the status of the actions taken against your license and, the big question, what's next. You need expert advice most likely from a seasoned attorney with intense experience in addressing licensure issues with physicians. This podcast addresses those needs and presents possible ramifications of not taking appropriate actions to help yo...

Podcast Comment/Question “Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers, content to survive inconspicuously rather than take risks and move independently ahead.” Have you perhaps made similarly derisive comments about committees at your hospital or in your practice? If you have, you’re in good company. That particular quote is from Ferdinand Porsche. An early to mid-20th century automobile pioneer But, as you likely agree, Dr. Por...

Podcast Comment/Question Armin Feldman, MD is a practices Forensic Medicine not only providing critical information to legal clients, but also teaching other physicians how to launch their own nonclinical career path in the interesting field of medical legal consulting. In his interview he not only recaps his range of experiences that led to his own career change, but provides important information for any physician interested in medical legal consulting as a career focus.

Podcast Comment/Question Physician often express there nonclinical career objectives as any job that will use their knowledge their skills and pay reasonably well... I equate that quest with the fairy tale, Alice in Wonderland when Alice asks the Cat, "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the cat. "I don’t much care where” said Alice "Then it doesn’t matter which way you go," said th...

Podcast Comment/Question Physicians think too much about end points and achieving their goals and not enough about process, and the value of not rushing decision making. Thinking like an Entrepreneur means thinking optimistically, thinking creatively, thinking globally, thinking big and thinking about process.

Podcast Comment/Question A body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion remains in motion... is your nonclinical career transition on the move or stalled to a stop. Let's talk about how to create positive career inertial to move you more effectively towards the nonclinical career you want.

Podcast Comment/Question This podcast is focused on answer some of the questions you've, my listeners, submitted recently. The focus is your stump speech, your digital networking activity and creating face to face meetings with potential employers.