NonClinical Careers for Physicians™ Podcast

Podcast Comment/Question What's next, what's normal, what's happening now. COVID-19 has and will continue to shake up the healthcare and medical worlds as we strive towards some new definitions of normal. What will be your role, perhaps your new job? Let's look at drivers and outcomes. 

Podcast Comment/Question So, what can you do to blow your interview? Well, really, it’s a bottomless barrel of things you could say or do, but I’m going to focus on what I see as the top ten easiest mistakes you can make... that is, easy things to say or do. There are too many examples to list here, but believe me, it’s very easy to have one of those multiple personality episodes where you’re scre...

Podcast Comment/Question Moving into the arena of nonclinical careers is vastly different from how you secure medical postings. No recruiters, no online postings... Just you and your ability to travers the complex web of events, people and opportunity presenting your value proposition along the way. This is not in your comfort zone, but it can be. I'll tell you how and why you want and need t...

Podcast Comment/Question I'm asked every day, "Do I need and MBA?" Here's the answer... also the answer about other degrees, certificates, certifications and what to do if you simple need to be able to make good decisions and provide good answers. Most importantly, I'll tell you the most important credential you can have. 

Podcast Comment/Question Now... Now is the best time if you're asking yourself the question. Once you begin questioning whether or not you should leave practice, you're probably already experiencing systemic issues of no return. Let's talk about making the decision and the process to move on. 

Podcast Comment/Question Successful Physician Career Change follows a definite pattern and process. It's comprised of Phocus (literary license), Package and Process. This podcast speaks to the critical element and components of each of these three steps

Podcast Comment/Question You have questions... from selecting recruiters, to entering telemedicine, advancing your career within your organization and to making first, best choices for your nonclinical career. Your questions are answered here. 

Podcast Comment/Question Physicians have been suffering through severals decades of lost control and prestige. Various events led to the profession moving from the most respected and trusted to one derided for numerous real and false reasons. However, today's cataclysmic events are offering physicians an unexpected second chance... a second chance to enhance their power, their control and the...

Podcast Comment/Question Medical practice is a set process and it's most likely that you'll be doing essentially the same job the day you stop practicing as you were doing the day you began. Most physicians are planning for retirement from the very beginning. In the nonclinical world, you'll want to shift your thinking to what you're starting. The Career Lifecycle moves in grou...

Podcast Comment/Question Networking is about follow up. It's about creating reasons to build relationships, about people wanting to introduce you to other people and about your management of a group of people in order to help them help you. Follow up, appropriate follow up is the key to managing networking well. This podcast talks about how to follow up effectively in order to create an effec...

Podcast Comment/Question Emotional Intelligence is a constant topic of discussion and even concern among physicians transitioning to a nonclinical career. However, your Organizational Intelligence is equally, if not more, important to your success in an organizational executive role. Learn what it is and how to manage and improve it, here.

Podcast Comment/Question The Research Interview is a networking technique that positions you as an expert, both seeking and imparting important and interesting information to the executives in the companies and organization you want to be working for. The research interview transforms you from a job seeker to an industry expert whose knowledge others want. Learn how, here.

Podcast Comment/Question Great Ideas are a Dime a dozen… Good Implementation is Priceless.  Does that surprise you to hear me say this? I’ve listened to the great ideas of hundreds if not thousands of physicians. However,  very few ever talk to me about how their idea will be implemented. In this Podcast we'll discuss the importance of implementation and it's key drivers for your entrepr...

Podcast Comment/Question While social distancing and self-isolation may be bywords of today's COVID-19 environment, for physicians still pursuing their nonclinical carer transitions, an opportunity to provide a needed public service awaits. Your community, however you may define community, needs clarity of information. They need to know what to believe and what not to believe.... Who better t...

Podcast Comment/Question Today you are Hunted, hunted constantly by staff, patients, clerks and others, but as you transition to a nonclinical career, you much become a Hunter. Using the Lion as our guide, this episode focuses on decision-making needed to determine your appropriate prey and how to attack. After all, lions don't chase rabbits, and neither should you.

Podcast Comment/Question Social distancing, cancelled conferences and meetings, the world, literally is moving towards a lockdown, but now is the time for you to be making your move to a nonclinical career transition. How do you keep up your momentum, or even get started during these challenging times... Here are my tips and recommendations to keep your networking and personal branding not only on...

Podcast Comment/Question You likely see getting a job as your primary objective... scanning job boards and looking for jobs you could fill. However, filling any posted job always means fitting into what someone else defined as necessary, necessary in both form and function. It's a little like having someone hand you a manual and telling you this is the way we want you to exam a patient.  Crea...

Podcast Comment/Question Heidi Moawad, MD had created an interesting and rewarding career, based in clinical practice but expanded to include writing, teaching, consulting and helping other physicians with tools and resources to explore and navigate the road to nonclinical careers. Here, she talks about her own career path, how she became interested in nonclinical endeavors and some of her advice...

Podcast Comment/Question When I say, what is the culture, the corporate culture, the business culture, the office culture of your medical practice, do you say, Huh? Most physicians do.  Working with physicians both in and out of practice for more than three decades, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had a physician comment to be about the culture of his or her practice.  Managing yo...

Podcast Comment/Question Today, the focus at nearly every level of medicine is to be Patient Centered. However, the nucleus of medical practice is "One Physicians and One Patient." The Physician-Centered™ Practice creates a new paradigm predicated on happy physicians at the core of their own medical practices. The Physician-Centered Practice is predicated on clearly and scientifically ch...

Podcast Comment/Question Medical practice is generally considered a pretty secure job. So when physicians decide to  move into the nonclinical career world, job security is often a question mark. As I explain, job security is generally a fleeting objective, but there are steps and measures you can take in your nonclinical job to improve the job security you feel and you have. 

Podcast Comment/Question Herding Cats has long been a cliche used to describe managing physicians. Unfortunately, today, that metaphor is misused far too often to simply imply physician practice or group management as a difficult task rather than the actual analogy predicated on the individuality of both species. Let's talk about how to actually appreciate the real practice of managing a grou...

Podcast Comment/Question It seems there are some everlasting truisms that may seem obvious, but working with physician careers for the past 30 years, I've learned reminders are sometimes necessary. These three items are essential both to effecting not only a successful career transition but to your next step into the nonclinical world as well. 

Podcast Comment/Question Years past, physicians ruled medicine and healthcare. However, today, physicians are struggling to just to keep pace with the changes in reimbursement, in medical practice organization, government regulations and the never-ending consolidation taking place. This podcast takes a look back as well as a focus on important initial steps if you have nonclinical career aspiratio...

Podcast Comment/Question Making the decision and taking those first steps from clinical practice towards a nonclinical career can be fraught with fear and anxiety, not to mention criticisms from those around you driven both by your departure from a treasured medical career path as well as from jealousy evoked because you're getting out of the grind and they are not.