Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities

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

• Section 1. How to Choose a Balanced Career Path.- Ch. 1.Changing Landscape of Career Opportunities in Medicine in the 21st Century: A Brave New World.- Ch. 2.Personality Type and Job Satisfaction.- Ch. 3.Career Decision Making in Medicine: Practical Approaches.- Ch. 4.Work-Life Balance.- Ch. 5.Avoiding Physician Burnout.- Ch. 6.Combined Degree Opportunities.- Ch. 7.Finding Fulfillment Outside of Medicine.- Section 2.Business, Consulting, and Industry.- Ch. 8.Managerial Development.- Ch. 9.The Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry.- Ch. 10.Healthcare Consulting.- Ch. 11.Physicians in Management.- Ch. 12.Physicians and Entrepreneurship.- Section 3.Medicine at the Macro Level:  Public Health, Global Health, &Public Policy.- Ch. 13.Public Health.- Ch. 14.Public Policy and Public Administration.- Ch. 15.Global Health.- Section 4.Academia.- Ch. 16.Careers in Academic Research.- Ch. 17.Careers in Medical Education.- Ch. 18.Medical School Deans and Other Senior Administrative Officers.- Section 5.Law, Advocacy, & Public Service.- Ch. 19.Legal Careers in Medicine.- Ch. 20.Additional Opportunities in the Legal Field and Applying to Law School.- Ch. 21.Politics and Legislative Advocacy.- Ch. 22.Organized Medicine.- Ch. 23.Physician Opportunities in the United States Uniformed/Military Services.- Section 6.Social Sciences, Journalism, Architecture, and the Arts.- Ch. 24.MD-PhD in the Social Sciences.- Ch. 25.Journalism, Publishing and Writing.- Ch. 26.A Different Angle: Physician and Architect.- Ch. 27.Enriching Your Career through the Arts.- Section 7.Bioethics, Spirituality, Alternative Medicine.- Ch. 28.Patient Safety.- Ch. 29.Bioethics.- Ch. 30.Spirituality and Medicine.- Ch. 31.Complementary and Alternative Medicine.- Ch. 32.Volunteering in Your Community: Think Globally, Act Locally.- Section 8.Real-life Stories.- Ch. 33.Leaders in the Successful Pursuit of  Non-Traditional Careers in Medicine.