Many health care professionals come to a cross road in their career where they have done excellent work clinically but feel they want to do something different. The questions become what exactly do I want to do and how do I get there? For some it is changing to a career in health care administration or perhaps health care education. Other medical professionals take the entrepreneurship route knowing that if the business venture does not work out they can always return to their previous clinical job.
I know fellow RN colleagues that have attended law school and now work in the Risk Management Department of various hospitals as well as a private physician owned national staffing business. What I have observed over the years is that highly intelligent, accomplished clinicians-physicians, RNs and Therapists don’t necessarily have the business experience to be successful in a business venture and need to expand their education.
I came upon an interesting blog post http://doctorscrossing.com/blog/ that recommends a book to physicians offering advice to those that want to leave the clinical world and make a career change. I imagine this is a very difficult decision given the amount of time and effort it takes to become an accomplished and specialized physician. The book, Do You Feel Like You Wasted All That Training? Questions from Doctor’s Considering a Career Change by Mike McLaughlin, offers some key advice when considering a career change as a physician and can be applied to other health care professionals as well.
Many of us have left the clinical setting with mixed feelings-after all, look how many years our work defined who we were. Patient care is extremely challenging and rewarding. There are other challenges that can be embraced where the skill sets we used in a clinical setting can translate to other areas.
Good luck in your next medical career!
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