New leukemia physician career advice

[CD15]

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Hi guys,

I will be starting a job as an adult leukemia specialist at a large academic center.

I will be focusing on acute leukemias.

However, I am looking of ways I can make myself stand out in the department by focusing on a specific issue.

Given the large setting major disease types like ALL, AML etc are already taken by other people, so is a hereditary cancers clinic.

Do you have any other suggestions for areas within leukemia I can focus on, clinically or biologically, so to speak?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[MD46]

You could focus on post transplant patients may be?

Its leukemia has become much more complicated now. Possibly be even that FLT-3 positive AML person ? Also may be get into a project, clinical trial etc so you can be that goto person for that sort of disease

 

[CD15]

Hi MD46.

Thank you for the advice. I appreciate it.

Unfortunately we do not see post transplant patients. They are followed in transplant department.

There is already a FLT3 person 🙂

I am working on a major trial in the department but that still doesn't differentiate me.

I wonder what we will be doing as oncologist 5-10 years from now that I can start today.