Physicians who practice insurance medicine work in health, life, disability, and long-term care insurance. This resource focuses on disability insurance medicine. If you want to leave clinical medicine, but you still want to use your clinical skills, “physician brain”, and earn a reasonable salary, a role in disability insurance medicine might be right for you! TYPICAL RESPONSIBILITIES Review and interpret
If you’re feeling overwhelmed during your transition to a new clinical or non-clinical career, you may have hit a roadblock. Even though roadblocks are expected along the road to career change, they have a sneaky way of taking you off the road and into overwhelm. Roadblocks are stressors you cannot control but they threaten to derail your focus. Examples of
When you started your current job, did you feel nervous, but excited about the new opportunity? And when you’ve left a job? Was it more of an emotional mixed bag? Bitter-sweet, sad, a relief, or you couldn’t wait to exit? Whatever your reason for leaving, it’s important to be intentional. If you can leave with grace and intact collegial relationships,
Do you feel uncomfortable, even embarrassed, when you’re asked about your career plans and you have to say, “I don’t know!?” In a profession where we’re rewarded for having the answers, being uncertain can feel scary. It’s one of the reasons career change is hard. But there’s an upside to uncertainty! Uncertainty can help you find your way through career
