Physician NonClinical Careers with John Jurica

This week, John describes why he believes a podcast is an awesome platform for supporting your business and growing your tribe. Then he reminds us why consistency in producing and releasing each episode is critical to achieving success. Finally, he walks us through the process he follows when producing each podcast episode. And he provides information about a dozen tools that he uses to create a p...

In today's interview, Dr. David Norris describes why he became interested in healthcare finances, especially as it relates to running a physician practice. He completed medical school at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and an anesthesiology residency and fellowship (Cardiovascular) at Vanderbilt University. He was always interested in the financial and business side of health care and...

In this episode, John describes what he has learned over the past several years about selecting a niche for your online business. He starts by providing examples of physicians who have created businesses from coaching, consulting, teaching, writing and speaking. Each of them has developed a niche based on their expertise and passion, and clients willing to purchase their products and services. Joh...

Dr. Haneen Abu-Remaileh is a Family Physician with an interest in maternity care. With 2 children under the age of 4, she works clinically as a Locum Tenens physician.  She received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia, and completed a Family Medicine Residency at the University of Calgary. Haneen is also a physician entrepreneur. She realized that there's a fundamental probl...

Today we learn about freelance consulting with Dr. Christopher Loo. Christopher is a retired surgeon, serial entrepreneur, investor, consultant, executive coach, best-selling author, and advisor. He received his MD-PhD from the Baylor College of Medicine-Rice University Department of Bioengineering. He entered an orthopedics residency, but realized quickly that patient care would not be right for...

In this episode, John describes the importance of an email list to business owners. Then he describes the methods he uses to nurture his list. It boils down to the following formula: Attractive Sign-Up Bonus + Appropriate Placement + Consistency EQUALS Growing Email Subscriber List John provides a detailed description of the lead magnets he uses and the places where he offers them to attract new s...

This interview is a real treat for me. I've invited Tom Davis back on the podcast. You'll remember him from Episode 047. Tom is really good at several things, including Medicare Advantage Plans, coaching, consulting, and telemedicine. And he has recently been focused on telemedicine. He wanted to figure out how to optimize the practice of telemedicine to benefit physicians and patients, rather tha...

On this week's episode of the PNC podcast, Dr. Helen Rhodes describes how persistence helped her find meaningful clinical and nonclinical jobs that, together, created a delightful career. Helen is an obstetrician/gynecologist who has completely redesigned her clinical career. She received her medical degree from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and completed the Obstetrics and Gyn...

This week's episode of the PNC Podcast is the last interview in our series of physician coaches, with Dr. Jattu Senesie, who offers a systematic approach to achieving life and career success. A native of Washington, D.C., Jattu attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, for her pre-med before going on to medical school and her OBGYN residency at Emory University. Upon completing her re...

Dr. Yvonne Ator is a physician coach who helps other physicians overcome compassion fatigue, disillusionment, and burnout, and thrive in their personal and professional lives. She employs Daring Way Facilitation and positive psychology-based personal and executive coaching to accomplsih this. Yvonne received her medical degree from East Carolina School of Medicine and a Master's in Public Health f...

Dr. Starla Fitch is a Certified Executive and Life Coach for Physicians, an international speaker, author of the best-selling book, "Remedy for Burnout," and an oculoplastic surgeon. She's known as "The Connection Doctor" because of her acclaimed TED talk, "Connect or Die: The Surprising Power of Human Relationships." Starla uses her expertise to help the physicians she coaches connect to success...

Dr. Krystal Sodaitis was an academic pediatrician at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She became interested in insurance medicine, and decided to pursue a career working for an insurance company in utilization review. It took a some time, but she was able to secure a position in a large insurance company in Chicago, Illinois, thereby avoiding the need to move to a new home. Since beginning h...

In this 100th episode, John looks back over the previous 99 shows and celebrates by presenting updates from nine of his outstanding guests. We hear about the ongoing work and future plans from: Mike Woo-Ming, MD, MPH Mandy Armitage, MD Charmaine Gregory, MD, FACEP Sylvie Stacy, MD, MPH Tom Davis, MD, FAAFP Sue Zimmermann, MD Savi Chadha, MD, MPH Peter Steinberg, MD Emma Hitt Nichols, PhD Each gues...

This week John interviews Dr. Nilesh Dave, a board-certified pulmonologist. Nilesh began to serve in leadership roles well before he understood the full meaning of what that would entail. His first clinical position required him to start a brand new sleep lab for a large hospital. So, he was thrust into making important decisions and communicating with colleages and decision-makers from the get-go...

In this episode, John interviews pediatric orthopedic surgeon, and sports medicine expert, Dr. Alfred Atanda. In addition to running a thriving practice treating young athletes, Alfred has developed a passion for telehealth, having integrated it into his practice. He has now become an expert in telehealth, and teaches other physicians how to integrate it into their practices. He has also spearhead...

In this week's episode, I'll be talking about three of the dumb mistakes I made while building an online business. I'm focused on an online business that provides coaching, consulting, teaching, publishing, or speaking, and is supported by a platform such as a blog, podcast or video channel. Here are a few examples of such physician-run businesses: David Geier has created an online business servin...

This week on the Physician NonClinical Careers podcast, John delves deep into the world of healthcare design with his guest Dr. Manuel (Manny) Hernandez. Manny discusses his lifelong desire to be a physician, taking us through his amazing, diverse career. He is an internationally-recognized physician, designer and healthcare innovation strategist. Since early 2018, he has been Principal, Strategic...

In this week's podcast episode, John is alone behind the microphone to describe six nonclinical careers that any discouraged doctor might consider. John has personally spoken with physicians happily engaged in these careers from the ranks of the board-certified and those straight out of medical school. John reminds us of the tactics useful for pursuing any of these careers: Create a complete Linke...

Dana Corriel is an internist, speaker, coach and social media expert. She completed medical school at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and her internal medicine residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Coaching health care professionals on how to maximize their online presence, she created #SoMeDocs ('Doctors on Social Media') for physicians looking to impact healt...

Given my desire to promote physician leadership, I've been looking for an awesome physician executive to interview. Hence, I invited Dr. Barbara Loeb to tell us about her career journey. Barbara started out as your typical hard-working general internist, running a small practice in the Chicago area. But she subsequently pursued a leadership career that put her in executive positions at several of...

This is the conclusion of my interview with Dr. Christopher Leonard. He is the chief information officer at Vohra Wound Physicians . In this part of the interview, Chris goes more deeply into how informatics has evolved. And he describes how to successfully pursue such a career. He also explains why he obtained a master's degree in health informatics. If you'd like to read the show notes, and acce...

Dr. Christopher Leonard started his clinical career as a general surgeon and took advantage of opportunities in medical informatics. Initially, however, he was not aware that what he was doing was called informatics. He was simply trying to standardize and improve wound care for his patients. But as he implemented protocols, integrated them into the EHR, and shared his improvements with others, he...

Today's guest is a great example of a physician in a seemingly awesome career who chose to pivot out of medicine completely. He left a very lucrative field, plastic surgery, and moved into consulting. But it was not an easy transition. And we get to hear all about it in today's fascinating interview. George Huang completed his medical degree at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He went on...

I've been fascinated by the medical science liaison career. Its an entry level position in the pharmaceutical industry that is often open to both licensed and unlicensed physicians. In today's interview, I speak with an obstetrician who leveraged her clinical work, professional relationships, and networking to obtain her first job as an MSL. Dr. Swati Shah is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecol...

Today's interview is loaded with practical advice on how to pursue a job as a medical director for a health plan. My guest, Rich Berning, helps tease out the various roles within that career, and also explains related jobs with an Independent Review Organization and a hospital UM department. Rich is a full-time medical director. His first job in the field was with Anthem in Albany, NY. After worki...