Physician NonClinical Careers with John Jurica

Dr. Carl Peters graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School.  Then he completed his Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of California, Davis. He is board-certified in Family Medicine and Urgent Care Medicine. A Family and Urgent Care physician with 25 years of experience and over 10,000 telemedicine visits, Carl is now offering his expertise in a variety of wa...

In 2014, Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones was an NHS Urology Specialist Trainee working in Blackburn (in northern England). Having graduated from medicine at the age of 22 at Nottingham, she worked for several years as a surgical trainee in the NHS. But she was yearning for something more. She moved to South Africa and worked as a trauma surgeon for nearly 2 years, revitalizing her love of medicine and re...

Lynn Marie is a Mayo Clinic-trained physician, attorney, and former adjunct law professor. Dr. Morski spent nine years as a physician at the Veterans Administration. She is the President of the Psychedelic Medicine Association, the founder of PlantMedicine.org , host of the Psychedelic Medicine Podcast, and medical director for WayofLeaf.com and Nue. Life . The Psychedelic Medicine Association is...

Dr. Chelsea Turgeon completed her medical education at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. During year two of her OB/GYN residency, she realized clinical medicine was not a sustainable career choice. She resigned from residency, bought a one-way ticket to South Korea, and never looked back. Now, she has built a successful online coaching business helping healthcare professionals recover...

In this episode, John walks through the specifics of four unique nonclinical jobs that he has encountered during the past few years. For those who aren't looking for a traditional nonclinical career (in hospital management, pharma, medical writing, consulting, etc.) this is for you.  You'll find all of these unique jobs and something to consider. Each of them also has a specific training program a...

Dr. Andrew Wilner is a board-certified internist, neurologist, and epilepsy specialist. He is also a lifelong writer and has written many books and articles, covering both clinical and nonclinical subject matter. He found early in his professional career that locum tenens were the perfect solution to achieve work-life balance as a physician and writer. Having worked in a variety of locum positions...

Dr. Simon Maltais is an active cardiac surgeon in one of the world's largest healthcare services institutions. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of heart failure and alternative cardiac interventions. He is also a keynote speaker, has published more than 160 articles, and contributed to numerous books. As a board-certified surgeon from Canada, he has worked in two different c...

Dr. Laura McKain is a board-certified physician with more than ten years of pharmaceutical industry experience in clinical development, and pharmacovigilance. She received her medical degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and completed her training in obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.  In 2008 she transitioned her career to the phar...

Kathryn Kraemer Troutman, also known as the Federal Resumé Guru, is the founder and president of The Resume Place, Inc., a service business located in Baltimore, MD, specializing in writing and designing professional federal and private-sector resumes, as well as coaching and education in the federal hiring process. For the past 30 years, Troutman has managed her Professional Writing and Consultin...

Dr. Lev Grinman is board certified in neurology and sleep medicine and works clinically as a neurophysiologist. Daniel Cousin is a board-certified radiologist, fellowship-trained, and certified in PET-CT and nuclear imaging. They co-founded Doctors for Providers, a company that matches collaborating physicians with nurse practitioners and physician assistants. The business is growing and looking f...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Chester Zoda was working 80-100 hour work weeks and feeling burned out and overworked. He decided to spend 2-3 hours on weekends starting an online course business. He started by teaching digital marketing using Facebook advertising. His first course made $5,000 in the first month. Dr. Zoda's colleagues noticed how fast he was growing and wanted his help to do the...

Dr. Paul Hercock is an author, entrepreneur, and educator. He started personably serving medical device companies years ago. The recent adoption of the MDR Regulations in the European Union led to the need for more physicians in a variety of roles to help medical device companies comply with them. Paul wrote a book and was featured here on the podcast about 15 months ago. He's here to update us on...

Dr. Nneka Unachukwu, known across the U.S. as Dr. Una, is a pediatrician and entrepreneur. She is also the host of two podcasts and the EntreMD Business School , a year-long program designed to make up for the business education you didn't receive during your medical training. Whether you are employed or own your practice or a nonclinical business, this school will give you the tools you need to h...

Best Friends Again is a Physician Marriage Coaching company. Its specialty is helping physicians and healthcare professionals reignite their marriage through a customized approach based on their unique needs. Their battle-tested physician marriage, generational physician family heritage, and expertise from coaching hundreds of marriages "off the ledge" have paved the way for their program: 90 Days...

Dr. Nwando Anyaoku is Vice President and the inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer for a large health system in the Seattle area. She has been there since 2016 leading the pediatrics and Medicaid strategy. Prior to that, she served as the physician lead for health equity and community partnerships, which led to her current position. She is a board-certified pediatrician and professor of pediatrics...

Dr. Nkeiruka Duze earned her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine. She then completed her internal medicine residency at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. She is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician practicing in the outpatient setting. Burnout and a desire for work-life balance led to her curiosity about nonclinical opportunities for physicians. Given her...

Dr. Jen Barna earned her medical degree and completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. She also holds a master's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a board-certified practicing radiologist and founder and CEO of DocWorking . DocWorking is a company that helps physicians maximize meaning and p...

Heather Fork, MD is an ICF master certified coach who helps physicians find their best career path forward, whether in medicine, a nonclinical career, or something else. In 2010 she founded the Doctor's Crossing and since that time has worked with hundreds of physicians to find greater career fulfillment and meaning in their work. She hosts the weekly Doctor's Crossing Carpe Diem Podcast and is pa...

Dr. Debra E. Blaine was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island, New York. She attended Baylor College of Medicine to earn her MD. She returned to New York for post-graduate training and has practiced Family and Urgent Care Medicine on Long Island and Queens for over thirty years. She discovered that she loves writing thrillers – even more than practicing medicine. Her first novel, CODE B...

Today we meet a hospitalist who transitioned to work as a remote physician advisor. Dr. Robert Craven completed his medical degree at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and his Internal Medicine Residency at Carolinas Healthcare System. He worked as a hospitalist for nine years. He was offered a position as a physician advisor for utilization management unexpectedly at a previous em...

Dr. Ronnie Shalev completed her medical degree at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and her Emergency Medicine Residency at Drexel University College of Medicine. She is a board-certified Emergency Medicine doctor whose high-pressure job sucked the life out of her, leaving her weary, burned out, and unable to enjoy her family and day-to-day life. Because she was paid well, she felt boun...

Dr. Barbara Loeb, is an author, speaker, mentor, facilitator, and physician leader. She is committed to promoting well-being, especially for people working within healthcare. She believes that individuals devoted to caring for others often fail to take care of themselves. Her work is focused on inspiring caregivers to do just that. Dr. Loeb started her 40-year career in health care as a primary ca...

Dr. Armin Feldman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School. He completed his training in psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis for over 20 years, and he owned a network of out-patient head injury rehabilitation clinics around the country.   He will tell us how he began doing a unique kind of medical legal cons...

Today podcasters May and Tim Hindmarsh describe their clinical work, forays into nonclinical, and what they have learned as podcast interviewers. They have worked primarily in clinical positions. Dr. Tim Hindmarsh has tried several nonclinical jobs, but now seems to have found an enjoyable and fulfilling career in urgent care. Dr. May Hindmarsh has been exploring nonclinical options more aggressiv...

Learn how to use Guidestar to prepare for your nonclinical job search.  You may have noticed that we are presenting episodes that provide advice about very specific tactics to be used in the career transition process. Not all transitions use the tactics we're teaching. But these tactics are foundational enough to help the majority of you to accelerate your job search if they are implemented. Today...