Physician NonClinical Careers with John Jurica

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...

Today we discuss a popular hospital-based job that can also serve as a stepping stone to the C-suite. It is the position of CDI medical director. CDI is the acronym for clinical documentation improvement, or more commonly today, clinical documentation integrity . I have interviewed two CDI specialists in the past. One worked primarily as an independent CDI consultant, and the other worked as a phy...

Your first job interview is a critical part of your nontraditional job search. You've narrowed your choice to a single job. You've convinced someone that you're qualified. And now you've landed an interview. There may be an initial phone interview. Then you may be invited to one-on-one or group interviews. Some of today's tips apply primarily to face-to-face interviews, but most also apply to tele...

On today's show, I have the pleasure of introducing Dr. Cherisa Sandrow. She is a board-certified family physician who completed her medical degree at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She worked for nine years practicing family medicine, with an emphasis on obstetrics. After practicing medicine as an employee, Dr. Sandrow pivoted out of her busy office-based practice and developed...

Today's topic is one I've been dying to talk about for a long time. It has to do with professional associations and societies and their place in physician career transition. Today for the podcast I am going to introduce you to important professional societies and associations. I will be visiting each society's site online today so that I can provide you with a little bit of specific information on...

Dr. Andrew Tisser specializes in emergency medicine and is the host of the Talk2MeDoc Podcast . The podcast and Dr. Tisser's work as a career strategist focus on the unique issues pertaining to the early career physician.  Andrew earned his medical degree at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. He then completed his residency at Upstate Medical University in Syracu...

Today I thought I would discuss another topic related to the pursuit of a hospital management job. I read  an article on KevinMD  by  Patty Fahy, MD  recently that talked about BSM (Business School Mindset). The author gave examples of the BSM mindset: "...graduates are assured that an MBA degree has prepared them to manage in any industry: a tattoo parlor, a government entity, or a hospital syste...

Today I discuss my work as chief medical officer. I spent 14 years as a senior hospital executive. There was a lot to like about that job. More than I can cover in one podcast episode. I presented the positive aspects of a hospital management career in Podcast Episode #20 . But today, I'll focus on some of the specific projects I worked on and the directors who I worked with. I think it will give...

Dr. Chase DiMarco holds an MS and an MBA, and is an MD/Ph. D-candidate. He is the Founder of MedEd University  and the CEO of  FindARotation , a clinical rotations platform. He hosts the Medical Mnemonist Podcast and Rounds to Residency Podcast and is co-author of Read This Before Medical School , published in 2019. Chase is a consummate entrepreneur, author, teacher, and businessman. If you enjoy...

This is Part 2 of my discussion of coaches and how to hire one. I receive frequent questions about this topic from listeners. Their questions generally involve one or more of these themes: Should I use a coach? Where do I find a coach? Are coaches expensive? Do you recommend certain coaches? I'm aware of three directories of physician coaches: Happy MD lists five coaches affiliated with Dr. Dike D...

This is Part 1 of my discussion of coaches and how to hire one. I receive frequent questions about this topic from listeners. Their questions generally involve one or more of these themes: Should I use a coach? Where do I find a coach? What does coaching cost? Do you recommend certain coaches? I have spoken on the podcast in the past about what coaching is, and how it differs from mentorship, onli...

Dr. Laura McKain is a board-certified physician with more than ten years of pharmaceutical industry experience. She has experience with clinical-regulatory strategy, study design, protocol writing, Phase 2-4 clinical trials, medical monitoring, safety surveillance, data analysis, and report writing. She received her medical degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and completed her tra...

What can you expect, and how should you prepare, when leaving your current position?  Most of you will be in the following situation: Working for a medical group or healthcare system.  You find clinical medicine to be frustrating and unrewarding for a variety of reasons, including: lack of respect, understaffing, poorly designed or slow EMRs, long hours, churning of patients to maintain worked RVU...