I've started writing a book about my personal journey into the non-clinical world of medicine. Let me give you a tiny preview:
As an undergraduate student at MIT, I thought I was going to be a biomedical engineer. I studied mechanical engineering and got involved in cancer research. I applied to medical school and graduated. That was when I started meeting other MIT colleagues who had decided to pursue non-clinical healthcare careers. In some ways, that's when my journey began because I started asking the question: "What are my options if I graduate from medical school but I don't want to practice medicine?"
Good luck on your book, Joe. It sounds great. For those readers who are interested, our Medical Fusion conference will also help them see how they can apply their medical training outside of clinical medicine. They can check us out at www.MedFusionConf.org .
ReplyDeleteGreat blog. Keep up the good work.