Clinician --> alternative careers?

[liquidcrawler]

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As I daydream about my future career trajectory, I’m struck with the realization that I may not want to be a clinician forever. Does anyone have accounts or experience with attendings/faculty leaving the clinic in favor of pharmaceutical/consulting/biotech start up work? Perhaps even sitting on science advisory boards for biotech companies? If so, does anyone have evidence of what their lifestyle consists of? I feel as if this is a more common occurrence in academic biology, where post-docs leave academia for industry, PIs take their research to pharmaceuticals, and every grad student hopes they can spin their project into a biotech start up. I feel this is a less common occurrence in academic medicine and medicine in general.

I have an early career interest in academic medicine, and I hope to be involved in basic science or clinical science. Ideally, I’ll be involved in some field with potential for innovation and business ventures, such as virotherapy, personalized medicine, or microbiome affectors of health.

I guess another way to put this is… what do MD/MBA’s (who don’t seek the degree for the purpose of running their own clinic of becoming a hospital administrator) usually do?

 

[Crayola227]

try the dropout club, DOC, online

 

[arcus]

Does anyone have accounts or experience with attendings/faculty leaving the clinic in favor of pharmaceutical/consulting/biotech start up work?

Too many to list but the answer is yes.

what do MD/MBA’s.... usually do?

Give Third Party Payers and CMS the middle finger, laugh all the way to the bank and are home regularly with their families loving life

 

[libertyyne]

Too many to list but the answer is yes.



Give Third Party Payers and CMS the middle finger, laugh all the way to the bank and are home regularly with their families loving life

Not really, most of md/mba are just plain jane practicing docs.