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<p>Section 1. How to Choose a Balanced Career Path.- Ch. 1.Changing Landscape of Career Opportunities in Medicine in the 21st Century: A Brave New World.- Ch. 2.Personality Type and Job Satisfaction.- Ch. 3.Career Decision Making in Medicine: Practical Approaches.- Ch. 4.Work-Life Balance.- Ch. 5.Avoiding Physician Burnout.- Ch. 6.Combined Degree Opportunities.- Ch. 7.Finding Fulfillment Outside of Medicine.- Section 2.Business, Consulting, and Industry.- Ch. 8.Managerial Development.- Ch. 9.The Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry.- Ch. 10.Healthcare Consulting.- Ch. 11.Physicians in Management.- Ch. 12.Physicians and Entrepreneurship.- Section 3.Medicine at the Macro Level:  Public Health, Global Health, &amp;Public Policy.- Ch. 13.Public Health.- Ch. 14.Public Policy and Public Administration.- Ch. 15.Global Health.- Section 4.Academia.- Ch. 16.Careers in Academic Research.- Ch. 17.Careers in Medical Education.- Ch. 18.Medical School Deans and Other Senior Administrative Officers.- Section 5.Law, Advocacy, &amp; Public Service.- Ch. 19.Legal Careers in Medicine.- Ch. 20.Additional Opportunities in the Legal Field and Applying to Law School.- Ch. 21.Politics and Legislative Advocacy.- Ch. 22.Organized Medicine.- Ch. 23.Physician Opportunities in the United States Uniformed/Military Services.- Section 6.Social Sciences, Journalism, Architecture, and the Arts.- Ch. 24.MD-PhD in the Social Sciences.- Ch. 25.Journalism, Publishing and Writing.- Ch. 26.A Different Angle: Physician and Architect.- Ch. 27.Enriching Your Career through the Arts.- Section 7.Bioethics, Spirituality, Alternative Medicine.- Ch. 28.Patient Safety.- Ch. 29.Bioethics.- Ch. 30.Spirituality and Medicine.- Ch. 31.Complementary and Alternative Medicine.- Ch. 32.Volunteering in Your Community: Think Globally, Act Locally.- Section 8.Real-life Stories.- Ch. 33.Leaders in the Successful Pursuit of  Non-Traditional Careers in Medicine.</p>

<p>Richard D. Urman, M.D., M.B.A.<br>Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School <br>Director, Hospital Procedural Sedation Management and Safety<br>Co-Director, Center for Perioperative Management and Medical Informatics<br>Brigham and Women’s Hospital<br>Boston, MA   02115    USA</p><p>Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D., M.P.H.<br>Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology<br>Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics<br>Director, Center for Evidence-Based Anesthesia <br>Director, Perioperative Data Systems Research <br>Medical Director, Perioperative Quality <br>Vanderbilt University Medical Center<br>Nashville, TN   37232    USA</p>

<p>Increasingly, physicians are leveraging their medical training and expertise to pursue careers in non-traditional arenas.  Their goals are diverse:  </p><p> </p><p>·         Explore consulting as a way to improve patient care</p><p>·         Lay the foundation for a career in academic medicine</p><p>·         Provide leadership in healthcare </p><p>·         Strengthen ties between a clinic and the community</p><p>·         Broaden one’s experience as a medical student </p><p>·         As a journalist or writer, open a window onto medicine for non-experts </p><p> </p><p>Some physicians will pursue another degree, while others may not, in anticipation of moving into public service, business, education, law, or organized medicine. Their common ground is the desire to enhance their professional fulfillment.</p><p><b> </b></p><p>Drs. Urman and Ehrenfeld’s book features individual chapters on the wide array of non-traditional careers for physicians, each one written by an outstanding leader in medicine who him- or herself has successfully forged a unique career path.  A final chapter brings together fascinating brief profiles – “case studies” – of physicians who have distinguished themselves professionally outside of traditional settings.  </p><p> </p><p>Suitable for readers at any point in their medical career – practitioners, fellows, residents, and medical students – who want to explore possibilities beyond traditional medical practice, the book also sets out common-sense advice on topics such as work-life balance, mentorship, and the relationship between personality and job satisfaction.  </p>

Written for physicians considering how to leverage their MD and to enhance their professional fulfillment Suitable for readers at any point in their medical career, from practitioners to medical students Looks at benefits of pursuing an additional, non-medical degree Presents wide range of non-medical settings in which physicians can lead and contribute: business, public service, education, law, organized medicine 10 fascinating profiles of physicians who have distinguished themselves professionally outside of traditional settings Common sense advice on work-life balance, mentorship, and the relationship between personality and job satisfaction Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras