Physician NonClinical Careers with John Jurica

John frequently receives questions about nonclinical and nontraditional careers from subscribers, podcast listeners, and mastermind members. This is the first in a series of episodes over the next several months in which he responds to 3 or 4 questions.  This week John answers four questions: 1.    What are the highest-paying nonclinical jobs? 2.    Are there affordable resources for those pursuin...

During a recent Nonclinical Mastermind meeting, one of the members posed this question: How do I create a business that allows me to provide advice to clients without creating a physician-patient relationship? This week John attempts to answer that question by presenting 6 guests who have appeared on his podcast. Each one provides wellness and health improvement advice and coaching without establi...

Email subscribers and podcast listeners often approach John with questions about finding a nonclinical or nontraditional clinical job. One of the most common questions is: "How do I get started?" In this week's podcast episode, John answers this question while including some of the decisions he made as he pursued his former career as a hospital chief medical officer. He highlights a stepwise appro...

During this week's episode, John describes why email marketing is an important tool for almost any business and how he has changed his approach to email marketing over the past year or so. Unlike social media platforms, you own your list and it cannot be suddenly limited or deleted. Email marketing is less expensive than other marketing approaches, and it provides you with customers who have demon...

In this week's podcast episode, John describes three major issues that arise during a transition to a nonclinical career . The three big issues that can easily complicate your transition if not recognized early arise in these 3 areas: legal or contractual, financial, and emotional. He also describes the steps that can be taken to reduce or eliminate their impact. You will find links mentioned in t...

Dr. Armin Feldman practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis for over 20 years and owned outpatient head injury rehabilitation clinics around the country. Fifteen years ago, Dr. Feldman began providing an entirely new kind of medical-legal consulting. All of his consulting is pre-litigation and pre-trial. He helps attorneys manage the medical aspects of cases, increase case value, and save time, but...

The week between Christmas and New Year's Eve is generally pretty slow. So, rather than bringing an interview or an intense career-related topic, we address the following question: How do I encourage my guests to leave at the end of a dinner party? In a fun and humorous way, John provides a top ten list, in reverse order, of the techniques that he and others have used to gently recognize that it i...

Today's guest first appeared on the podcast in Episode 35 . She returns now to describe how her business has grown and to discuss her new book. Life and weight coach Dr. Katrina Ubell is a pediatrician and master-certified life and weight loss coach. She established her weight loss program in 2016 and has assisted more than 1,300 physicians with their battles to get in shape and lose weight. She i...

Working remotely has become all the rage, with its potential advantages of adding flexibility and autonomy to our lives, avoiding office politics, and practical savings in fuel and automobile maintenance costs. But there are some real downsides that can occur. Today's guest is Frieda Wiley, Pharm. D., who worked as a chemist before pursuing her pharmacy doctorate. Like many of you, she was attract...

This week's episode presents Part 2 of an excerpt from my course How to Secure a Career as a Medical Science Liaison . Together, these 2 episodes provide you with a good understanding of what an MSL does and how to pursue your first job as an MSL. The material presented over these two weeks, while dense with information, only represents about 15% of the material in the course itself. But if you're...

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) in the pharmaceutical industry is a popular position for physicians who wish to leave clinical practice. This is true because it is possible to qualify for the job regardless of the extent of training (i.e., whether residency-trained or board certified, or not) or specialty; it does not require special certifications or degrees (beyond a medical degree); and it pr...

John was interviewed recently, and at one point the host asked John to describe some of the most esoteric nonclinical jobs he has discovered. That got him thinking about the guests he has met over the past 5 years. So, this week he describes 5 of those guests and the interesting jobs they do that stand out in his mind as particularly unique and unexpected. You will find links mentioned in the epis...

Jen Barna, MD is a board-certified radiologist, and founder and CEO of DocWorking, a company that helps physicians and other healthcare professionals maximize meaning and purpose in life. It accomplished that by combining expert coaching, peer support communities, and highly interactive courses. Healthcare organizations use Docworking programs to improve recruitment and retention, address and prev...

Lara Hochman, MD is a Family Medicine physician and the Medical Matchmaker. She is an advocate for fellow physicians' well-being in the face of rising burnout and dissatisfaction. Her own experiences led her to discover the ways physicians lose autonomy, and how to reclaim their focus on helping patients. She founded Happy Day Health , a boutique physician matchmaking agency to match doctors with...

For most nonclinical careers that a physician might consider when leaving a high-stress corporate-style practice, one or more association or society exists that can provide valuable support. In this week's podcast episode, John describes the types of services these organizations provide, and how and when to use their services during the transition to a new job. During the presentation, John also o...

This is the second episode in my series on The 12 Month Roadmap to a New Career. You can find my discussion about Month One of the Roadmap in Episode 269. This episode addresses one of the activities started in Phase 2 (Months 2 through 4) of my Roadmap: Networking . Networking   can be used to: start and grow a business, club, social group, etc. gain acceptance to a school find an expert to help...

Today I'm presenting a popular podcast blast from the past from Episode 180 . In it I described 8 common mistakes clinicians make when trying to pivot to a new job. Let's revisit the answer to this question: What are the most common mistakes that will derail your job search? Tunnel vision and not keeping an open mind Being intimidated by a job description Preparing a CV rather than a resume Using...

In this episode, John introduces his 12 Month Roadmap to a New Career. He originally developed the roadmap to apply to landing a job as a hospital Chief Medical Officer. But the concepts apply to many other nonclinical jobs. In this first installment, John lists the four specific tactics that he recommends during the initial month of a job search, after first narrowing the search to 2 or 3 specifi...

This week, Dr. Debra Blaine returns to the show to discuss her latest book. She has appeared on the show twice before ( Episode 115 and Episode 231 ) and returns to announce the release of Beyond the Pillars of Salt and to explain how she published it. Dr. Debra Blaine is a family physician who has been practicing for over 30 years. She began writing fiction in earnest several years ago and releas...

In this week's solo episode John explains the power found in Mastermind groups. He defines what a mastermind is. And he recounts the history of the development of the Mastermind in 1939 which is attributed to Napoleon Hill, who wrote Think and Grow Rich . John tells of the Mastermind sessions he had as a chief medical officer (CMO) of a community-based hospital during which members of his team wou...

Dr. Cherisa Sandrow is a Board Certified Family Physician. She received her medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and practiced family medicine including obstetrics for 15 years. Making the transition to telemedicine in 2015, she pivoted out of her busy office-based practice and created a thriving telemedicine practice, with the ability to prioritize her core values in l...

Dr. Laura Clapper is a seasoned C-suite executive with extensive experience applying digital health solutions, providing value-based care, and supporting provider-health plan joint ventures. As a thought leader, she has focused on integrating analytics and disruptive technology into traditional systems, such as integrating digital health and remote monitoring into the brick-and-mortar care model o...

Dr. Peter Angood has led American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) since 2011, having previously provided senior leadership for all sizes and types of healthcare organizations. During his career, Angood was the first chief patient safety officer and a vice president for The Joint Commission, senior adviser for patient safety to the National Quality Forum and National Priorities Partners...

Called a creativity guru, Robin Landa, Distinguished Professor in the Michael Graves College at Kean University, is the author of 25 nonfiction books published by esteemed publishers such as Simon & Schuster. Berrett-Koehler will publish her new book, T he New Art of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential in November. Actor Holly Taylor (Manifest; The Americans) illustrated the book. In it, Robin o...