Category: Career

• How to Overcome Early Career Physician Setbacks & Thrive in Recovery 

  

  I shared my past struggles with substance use disorder during training, including a relapse during my fellowship. My career as a surgeon was not over as it turns out – instead, we’re just getting started.

• Match Day Gift Guide For Medical Students

  

  You want to get the Med Student in your life something they’ll love and actually use, but what is that, exactly? Medical students as a population are generally experts at delayed gratification and practicality.

• Overcoming Addiction In Residency & Fellowship

  

  Dr. McKeown tells her story of battling, and overcoming, addiction in both residency and fellowship. She tells her story so that others struggling with addiction or substance abuse can know that they are not alone.

• Residency Program Under ACGME Investigation: What It’s Like

  

  I don’t claim to be an expert on ACGME policies and investigations but sharing even one account of this experience means that it’s 1% less shrouded in secrecy and threat.

• Quitting Residency – An Alternative Career Path for MDs

  

  Rethinking Residency was lucky enough to sit down with Chelsea Turgeon, MD, self-described and proud “Residency Drop Out”, former OBGYN, career coach and world traveler. It is so rare to find someone who left in the middle of residency and is not only willing to talk about it, but also discusses it in an objective…

• Leaving Deloitte Consulting for Medical School

  

  When I got involved with many of the well-being initiatives I supported at Deloitte, I started to explore what I was really passionate about. I am now attending Case Western as a first year medical student.

• An Alternative Career Path for Primary Care

  

  When a system is set up to produce a certain outcome, that is the outcome you get. We do not rely primarily on payment for procedures or visits. Because of this unique payment system, I don’t need to focus as intently on seeing the maximum number of patients per day.

• How I Switched Residency Programs & Specialties

  

  The Nitty-Gritty – how I switched career paths two-thirds of the way through a residency program and the questions I asked myself as I contemplated doing a second residency.

• Why I Switched Residency Programs & Specialties

  

  Almost five years have gone by, and I’m now in my last year of anesthesia residency. I decided not to pursue a pediatric anesthesia fellowship (another story for another day), but I’m still so happy I made the choice to switch.

• American Doctor Working Abroad

  

  I’m a US-trained otolaryngologist who is practicing in New Zealand. If the thought of practicing outside your home country interests you, allow me to share a few tips that may make the process a bit easier.