Overview
Written for physicians considering how to leverage their MD and to enhance their professional fulfillment
Suitable for readers at any point in their medical career, from practitioners to medical students
Looks at benefits of pursuing an additional, non-medical degree
Presents wide range of non-medical settings in which physicians can lead and contribute: business, public service, education, law, organized medicine
10 fascinating profiles of physicians who have distinguished themselves professionally outside of traditional settings
Common sense advice on work-life balance, mentorship, and the relationship between personality and job satisfaction
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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How to Choose a Balanced Career Path
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Business, Consulting, and Industry
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Medicine at the Macro Level: Public Health, Global Health, and Public Policy
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Academia
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About this book
Increasingly, physicians are leveraging their medical training and expertise to pursue careers in non-traditional arenas. Their goals are diverse:
· Explore consulting as a way to improve patient care
· Lay the foundation for a career in academic medicine
· Provide leadership in healthcare
· Strengthen ties between a clinic and the community
· Broaden one’s experience as a medical student
· As a journalist or writer, open a window onto medicine for non-experts
Some physicians will pursue another degree, while others may not, in anticipation of moving into public service, business, education, law, or organized medicine. Their common ground is the desire to enhance their professional fulfillment.
Drs. Urman and Ehrenfeld’s book features individual chapters on the wide array of non-traditional careers for physicians, each one written by an outstanding leader in medicine who him- or herself has successfully forged a unique career path. A final chapter brings together fascinating brief profiles – “case studies” – of physicians who have distinguished themselves professionally outside of traditional settings.
Suitable for readers at any point in their medical career – practitioners, fellows, residents, and medical students – who want to explore possibilities beyond traditional medical practice, the book also sets out common-sense advice on topics such as work-life balance, mentorship, and the relationship between personality and job satisfaction.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Richard D. Urman, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Director, Hospital Procedural Sedation Management and Safety
Co-Director, Center for Perioperative Management and Medical Informatics
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA 02115 USA
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Director, Center for Evidence-Based Anesthesia
Director, Perioperative Data Systems Research
Medical Director, Perioperative Quality
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN 37232 USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities
Editors: Richard D. Urman, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0551-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0550-4Published: 03 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0551-1Published: 04 December 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 385
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general