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Alternative Careers

You may be interested in learning about career options outside clinical medicine; in which you can make use of your medical training in a non-clinical environment, outside the realm of patient care. If so, these resources may prove informative:

General:
  • Careers in Medicine has an excellent resource base for students interested in reading up on alternative careers:  just look under "Shape your Career" and click on "Alternative Careers.
General Article: "Pursuing non-clinical careers"
  • (April 13, 2010):
General Book chapter
  • the Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty – 3rd ed,
Public Health
  • The Careers in Medicine site for
  • Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
  • the
Government
  • Federal, state and local government
  • Lobbying and government relations

Writing / Communications / Journalism

  • From St. Luke the Apostle to Chekov to Atul Gawande, physicians have been writing for millennia. A suggested starting place to read might be

  • Careers in print journalism and writing 

  • Careers in broadcast journalism

  • A Career Profile of , who makes writing part of her career
Entrepreneurship
  • see article "A New Direction: Physicians Exercise Their Entrepreneurial Skills, Creativity to Pursue Passions Beyond Clinical Medicine" (The Hospitalist. 2013;17(3):1,42-45.)

  • Physician entrepreneurs have their own society:

Informatics

  • Article

  • Canada's Health Informatics

Pharmacutical Research

  • Article

Consulting

  • Article

Military
  • Book:
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