Wow, good for you. Have long hoped for this approach to be adopted. The med school track seems quite focused and loses some important perspective as a result ,even for doctors who stay on the path, and espcecially for the youngest, who never have the chance or let themselves "look up." I teach CME on practical practice management, tax for doctors, how to get them retired early so their love for medicine can comfortably take them to new places, they need human resource management a bit at least, and some reentry skills for the rest of the world they left when they doggedly discarded some bit of their humanity in anatomy lab.Some need Miss Manners, all need business help, IMO. I have met with great resistance, mostly I think because GME directors aren't MDs often and are gatekeepers, suspicious of nonclinical credentials which can be highly variable; in my teaching, although I have a business, my expenience as a tax attorney, wife, daughter, sister of physicians, financial advisor who has seen the victimization and subsequent suspicion and rudeness of the doctors' reactions to the entire profession, good and bad, I sure would love to reach some of the younger ones before they get out feeling inadequately preprared to face even the first contract they have put in front of them to sign. I don't even need to charge for the presentations, just airfare if its a great distance for me, since I am lucky enough to be married to a neurorad, and this is my passion. I know they give a lot and are under a lot of pressure because I too live with it, but a lot can be aleviated by a short course in financial, practice guidance, the business of medicine, the pitfalls that lie ahead, and how to gracefully and stragegically deal with them. Plus it can be done in a pretty short and sweet program. Wish I weren't a treated as a pariah, especially since I put my head on a pillow each night (except call) next to a doctor, hate the overpayment of taxes on his hard-earned income and suffer his exhaustion too, and the deprivation of his attention so much more than the public can fathom. There are still heroes and at least boy scouts among them, who need a little more armanent in facing the business world and the world in general outside medicine and surgery. Would also love to know more about alternatives for my soon to retire, but never can retire, spouse, so full of a career of knowledge and so in need of a change.
