what can you do without residency?

[peehdee]

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strictly hypothetical here:

if you decide after getting your md that you don't want to do patient care and you don't want to do research, what realistic options are there?

1) teach? how much can you make? and what level could you teach?
2) run a hospital? do you need to do residency to be a ceo if you don't have a business background?
3) government jobs?

i.e., are there any jobs out there with decent salary that don't require 3+ years of residency and hire simply on the premise that you earned a medical degree from a school?

 

[docB]

There've been a ton of these discussions. Try a search. Residency or not very few physicians wind up as hospital CEOs. The big money is for people smart enough to quit after 6 years of school.

 

[geekgirl]

1) teach? how much can you make? and what level could you teach?
unlikely without residency

2) run a hospital? do you need to do residency to be a ceo if you don't have a business background?
no way without years in practice and alot of political pull, perhaps an mba too

3) government jobs?
maybe consulting/research. if this is your plan, spend some time setting yourself up for a research career before the end of med school (howard hughes year, md/phd, etc).

other choices - venture capital consultant. biotech consultant.
industry is much more open to this than the previously mentioned things. but think about this long and hard before you spend all this time learning about patient care.

 

[bugmenot]

starbucks

 

[JKP]

wall street?

 

[Hurricane]

Postdoc and do research. I suspect you'd get paid similarly to PhD research faculty. Maybe work/consult at a drug company, depending on previous experience in management, sales, whatever.

 

[gutonc]

FWIW, I know a couple of MD/MBA guys who did an intern year but nothing else. You can't get an unrestricted license in most states without at least one PG year under your belt and they felt that, for whatever reason, it made them more marketable for whatever business world thing they were planning to do (I never actually paid much attention or cared).

I've also heard from MD/PhDs who did post-docs but not a residency and regretted it. You're more marketable with both pieces of training than just the post-doc and MDs who can be dragged into service when necessary are worth more than those who can't.

Just my $0.02

BE

 

[toxic-megacolon]

You've gone to school for 8 years. All you need is a 1-year internship to get a medical license. Then you could possibly moonlight or work as a doc-in-a-box.

 

[futuredo32]

What's a doc-in-a-box?

 

[box29]

Urgent Care centers...I think...correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[prominence]

i love this periodic posts about foregoing residency training.