Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Part-Time Medicine & Career Change”
Radiologist and long-time friend to the blog Vagabond MD was recently interviewed on a podcast to describe his official transition out of clinical medicine last month. I highly recommend you allocate 32 minutes of your life to listen. Vagabond outlined different considerations in his process – ranging from coming to terms with certain fantasies for a future career that he …
Dr. F is a high-achieving female physician whose impressive academic pedigree launched her on a prestigious academic trajectory at the outset of her career. She took the unusual step of pivoting away from academia, relocating geographically to an area that was more in tune with her lifestyle goals, and creating a business that evolved into an entrepreneurial exit strategy from …
The title of this post comes from an excerpt of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s excellent book, The Black Swan, which explores the role of highly improbable events in shaping our lives more definitively than recurring, predictable events tend to do. Taleb uses it to refer to a phenomenon he witnessed firsthand during the outbreak of Civil War along religious lines in …
The first and second installments in this 3 part series described the ideal attributes of my Second Act, and how (with one rare exception) every possibility I’ve pursued has been a total dud. I remain an incorrigible dreamer, so in Part 3 I’ll spell out my latest hare-brained idea for an encore career that might meet my needs once I’m …
In the first installment, I described some guidelines for the type of work I hoped to pursue as part of my Act Two, and explained why I did not end up pursuing an opportunity practicing outpatient palliative care medicine or attempt to join a med tech startup. In this second installment, I’ll describe several other pursuits that did not pan …
One of my goals has been to figure out what to do with that new balance of time I’ve carved out. I want to find something that will keep me busy after the kids leave home; a fiefdom of my own that lets me settle into an empty nest rhythm; something to sustain me going forward. It’s hard to figure …
My wife and I belong to a book club where we enjoy our role as being the youngest members. At one point, there was a 47 year difference between the youngest an oldest person in attendance. Having such a diverse range of life experience offering insight on a shared bit of literature is a delight (at least until the point …
[Disclosure: The author sent me a free copy of her new book, asking if I would review it. I make no commission, and we have no affiliate relationship.] During orientation week in my first year as a medical student, a particularly thoughtful classmate in an adjacent apartment building concluded by week’s end that she didn’t want to become a physician. …
The Stock MD is a relative newcomer to the virtual doctor’s lounge of physician finance bloggers, but you won’t mistake his voice for any other doc out there. He did not so much cut back from medicine as cut it out completely. A not insignificant number of physicians describe choosing medicine over an equally attractive alternate career early in life. …
Craigslist runs a Missed Connections column where would-be romantics (and unsubtle sex seekers) anonymously confess sightings of potential mates that got away in often mundane settings, a wonderful place to explore vulnerable admissions by folks who regret not having voiced their feelings in the lost moment. One of the finest adaptations I’ve seen of this column is the artist Sophie …