You have entered medical school to become a physician and you are learning all about basic science, anatomy, and disease science. However, in order to be successful in your medical career, you need more than medical knowledge. You need to understand the medical education system and how to avoid the potholes along your path that can hurt your career. This Physician Career Guidebook series is a practical career guidebook to lead you through residency training, your first years as an attending physician, and becoming a physician leader. All items are generic across medical specialties and are meant to help bring the topics to your attention for your further contemplation. Each chapter is a mentoring or coaching session for a specific period of your training timeline. Use the information provided to further your career and to be better prepared for each step along the way. Each book is designed to be a guide for multiple years so you can use the appropriate chapters at the appropriate times.

The Physician Career Guidebooks provide practical, timely advice designed to help medical students, residents, and attending physicians to further your career and prepare you for each step along the way. Books in this series are: -The Road to Residency and Beyond - What They Didn't Teach You in Medical School.-Navigating the Chasm from Residency to Practicing Physician - Your Bridge to Success-The Physician Influencer - Inspiring Others in the World of Medicine (Fall 2021)This second book in a series of three, Navigating the Chasm between Residency and Practicing Physician, will help you navigate the twists and turns of active practice that will give you the edge you need to be successful. You will learn valuable insider information about what you can expect to encounter as you transition from residency to practicing physician, such as...-Proactively securing general requirements for active practice as an independent or employed physician -Understanding hospital/health system medical staff governance, professional practice evaluations and peer review -Navigating hospital/health system credentialing and privileging -Traversing health plan credentialing, enrollment and basic insurance payer contract models -Exposing key regulatory and compliance considerations -Considering membership in P.O.s, P.H.Os, ACOs or CINs...and more. This is the perfect gift for the medical resident or fellow is your life to help them prepare for their graduation and set them up for success in medical practice.

Beyond Residency offers practical, no-nonsense advice about the business and economics of being a medical doctor. Used as a textbook in the Business of Medicine Course at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, this edition is designed to work more broadly for other institutions teaching business of medicine courses and for new physicians starting out in practice. Recalling his days in medical school, Marc Lyles, senior director of health care affairs for the Association of American Medical Colleges said, "Whenever we asked a business question we were always told, 'Don't worry about that. You need to learn the medical side before you worry about the business side.'" He states that between 2003 and 2007, the majority of students were satisfied with their medical and clinical training. However, less than half felt that enough time was devoted to the practice of medicine, especially to medical economics. The Brody School of Medicine addresses that discrepancy, offering its Business of Medicine Course as a fourth-year elective and as a postgraduate class for students in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Topics addressed include time value of money, contracts, RVUs, disability and life insurance, and investment plans such as traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs. In 2015, the Business of Medicine Course received a positive score of 4.68/5 (94%) for its value to medical students, and Beyond Residency received a score of 3.89/4 (97%) for its effectiveness in teaching students the business of medicine. Beyond Residency helps students to understand important yet under-explored areas that will impact them as practicing physicians.

Doctors at any stage can use this book to clearly evaluate the issues involved when considering a career change. This book shows physicians how they can serve society and patients in innovative ways, and make a notable impact on health care delivery, policy and quality when they use their medical background in a non-traditional career pursuit. are explored and a step-by-step route with practical advice for finding the best career is described.

Doctors are ordinary people who experience challenges and failures just like everyone. This short must-read book offers the reader stories and sound advice on how regular women struggled with failure and rejection to finally succeed in medicine. At the core of this book are lessons on resilience, faith, determination and persistence told by 15 immigrant African women who dared to dream in the face of different challenges in order to answer the physician's call in faraway America.Born and raised in parts of the African continent where for many, hardship is commonplace and opportunities few, these women were as fearless as they were bold in pursuing their dreams. Their career aspirations would be enwrapped in different journeys characterized by years of rejection and failure in Africa, the Caribbean Islands, and the United States where some would eventually join the ranks of life-saving physicians and others, rejected but ever hopeful residency applicants.Recounts of the challenges common to the 21st-century woman on finding love, interracial dating in a racially charged society, heartbreak, divorce, single parenthood, acculturation, managing life-changing illnesses and successfully balancing family life and career aspirations, are as many as the tales of the academic and career challenges experienced by these women, further exacerbated by being women, immigrants and racial minorities.The stories are different and the experiences unique; but they all have the common result of demystifying medicine and echo recurrent lessons of resilience, strength, unwavering faith, resolve, and the tenacity that is needed to soar beyond challenges.

This book was written to help every senior medical student, every intern, every resident, and every fellow across the country learn how to navigate the treacherous waters of residency training. It will help bridge the communication gap between residents and faculty. It will help mentally prime medical students for their next stage of medical training. In preparing to write this book, I interviewed over 100 Program Directors across the country in seven specialties, including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery, and Orthopedic Surgery. I asked them a standard set of questions in the hopes of collecting, organizing, and sharing that wisdom to current and would-be residents. I asked them about the obstacles they overcame, the setbacks they endured, the lessons they learned, and the lessons they taught. The singular goal was to create a compendium to guide current and future residents during their final stage of training. The chapters that follow are a compilation of wisdom from over 500 combined years of medical training experience. My focus was not only on the residents who struggled the most but also on the residents who were striving. Just as much wisdom could be gleaned from the strongest residents. Every program had them, and every faculty knew who they were. These were the residents who were so far ahead of their peers that they needed very little, if any, supervision. These were the residents who were so self-sufficient that they allowed us to spend the extra time with those who needed it. These were the residents who were routinely selected or elected for Chief Resident positions. These were the residents who allowed us to sleep better at night, knowing that patient care was in good hands. These were the residents to whom we would trust the care of our family members. Every June, faculty across the country would swell with pride as these strong residents accepted their training certificates on Graduation Day. As I reflected on those who have graduated from my program, I found myself feeling the same sense of pride for the residents who completed remediation. Despite the sleepless nights thinking about the struggling resident, there is always a unique sense of satisfaction from helping a resident who adrift found his way. There are very few things more rewarding than watching a resident who appears to be on the brink of failure dig herself out of a hole and successfully graduate from residency. There is something special about the lost sheep who is returned to the flock. During my interview with a surgery Program Director, he stated, "Perhaps the question we should be asking is ''Why was the sheep lost in the first place?''" I emphatically agreed with him, and I found myself even more determined to write this book. After all, as an intern, I was one of those lost sheep. Residency training is a privilege and an honor. For every medical student who enters residency, there are many more who apply and are not accepted. Residency is not a roadblock in your journey; it is the journey. We must never forget why we entered medicine in the first place. This book should be used by senior medical students to help them mentally prepare for the extraordinary challenge ahead. This book should also be used as a guide for all residents - not just those who are struggling, but those who want to excel in residency and beyond. Finally, this book should be a compass for all Program Directors and faculty, to help them recognize early warning signs in the residents who are veering off path or have lost their way. After collecting notes from some of the most intelligent and wisest physicians in the country, I feel confident in saying that no matter who you are, where you are from, or how successful you have been, you can benefit from the combined wisdom of those who have succeeded before you. After all, the lives of your patients depend on it.

Are you a medical student on the cusp of graduation from medical school who is soon to embark upon a journey through residency training? Are you an intern or junior resident muscling through the early years of your formative residency training? If so, this book was written exclusively for you. The transition from medical school to residency training is a challenging and transformative experience that will come rushing toward you like a run‐away freight train. Life as a resident physician is drastically different to what most experience during their clinical rotations in medical school. Medical school can sometimes feel like an extension of your undergraduate college experience; however, residency is an entirely different animal. You will undoubtedly approach this transition into residency with a combination of raw emotion to include enthusiasm and eagerness but also trepidation and apprehension. This survival guide will serve to temper these emotions and transform them into a sense of confidence as you progress forward. This book is a focused, honest, and straightforward text that addresses the unique challenges encountered in residency training and more importantly discusses a number of strategies to facilitate tactful navigation of these challenging waters. It has been crafted into an easily digestible volume which concisely outlines a combination of principles that will inevitably produce a winning strategy to be a highly motivated, readily adaptable, and successful trainee. The thoughts expressed in this book will spur invaluable self‐reflection and enable the reader to fabricate an armamentarium of weaponry that can be tactically applied in the trenches of clinical warfare as well as to develop the strength, perseverance, and endurance to surge forward when the going gets tough. Some of this advice is frank, blunt, and brutally honest, but will be instrumental in maintaining an even keel throughout the grueling training process and prevent the reader from making some of the same mistakes that the author himself naively committed. Despite the differences that distinguish the numerous specialties of medicine and surgery, each chapter of this book contains valuable insight that all trainees can draw from regardless of specialty. By utilizing and employing the tools discussed, opportunities presented throughout the course of your residency training and beyond can be translated into successes that you will continually be able to build upon, hone, and polish throughout your career as a respected and well-rounded physician and professional.