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Workshop
Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians                                      Schedule
Sea Crest Oceanfront Resort                                                                  Faculty
Falmouth, Massachusetts                                                                        Registration Info
August 14-15, 2004                                                                                  Registration Form

Executive Summary                                              PDF version of entire brochure
                                                                                                                    

This hands on workshop shows physicians how to find a satisfying non-clinical second career utilizing their most fulfilling professional and personal experiences. Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians will allow participating physicians to answer the following three questions in very specific detail:

1. What are my professional and personal priorities?
2. What career opportunities exist that fit who I am?
3. How do I find and land the right non-clinical position for me?

Attendees will have the opportunity to present their career goals to the faculty. Each attendee will be asked to maintain the confidentiality of everything that is discussed during the workshop. Attendees will receive special individual assessment materials and the means to interpret the career implications of these assessments; suggestions and recommendations on how to deal with their specific career goals, a practical understanding of the current Darwinian job market; and efficient methods to circumvent the most common obstacles to professional fulfillment. Attendees will learn how to identify new job directions and how to land safely in new jobs, both during the workshops and afterwards using the network of study partners to continue the process.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this two-day, interactive workshop, you will be able to:

· Identify your strongest, most enjoyable and transferable skills,
· Delineate your professional and personal priorities, preferences, interests,
· Determine what specific career options are available to physicians with your preferences, values, and skills,
· Learn how to obtain current and accurate information of each career option based on realistic marketplace data,
· Locate new contacts whose job or career might be used as a model,
· Determine whether or not to seek additional higher education,
· Map out a campaign to start your new career,
· Learn how to best draft needed documents such as bios, resumes, letters, and so on,
· Excel during job interviews,
· Plan your negotiation and decision strategies,
· Understand how to land a new position safely and efficiently that fits who you are,
· Establish an on-going career-help support network, and
· Much, much more.
Faculty:

Dr. Stephen Rosen is Chairman of Celia Paul Associates. He specializes in working with physicians and other professionals. He has written articles on career versatility planning for Medical Economics, The Scientist, The Wall Street Journal, BioTechnology and National Business Employment Weekly. Articles about his career programs have appeared in The New York Times, Science, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web. Dr. Rosen is the Founder and Director of Scientific Career Transitions, a tax-exempt organization (funded in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) that pioneers in the development of systematic methods and specialized techniques to help credentialed individuals advance their careers. He has addressed the New York State and New Jersey Medical Associations, and other medical societies, the International Association of Career Management Professionals, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences on critical career issues. Trained in theoretical physics, Dr. Rosen has changed careers five times, including: large corporation research, investment banking, medical start-ups, universities, and foundations. He is the co-author with Celia Paul of the book "Career Renewal", which has been called "a really intelligent book on jobs, careers, and fulfillment at work".

Celia Paul is the founder and President of the career management firm, Celia Paul Associates. The firm specializes in career mobility planning for high-level professionals, particularly physicians. Since its inception in 1980, the firm has guided several thousand highly-credentialed men and women to satisfying careers. Celia Paul, author of numerous articles in both professional and general publications, is an expert on career transitions for doctors, cited in the AMA book Leaving the Bedside, and serves as a referral resource to the AMA Physician Career Resource Service. Her work with professional clients has been prominently featured in, among others: Medical Economics (May, 1990), American Medical Association News (January 10, 1994), The New York Times (February 10, 1989), and Physician Executive (October, 1995). Educated at Columbia University, Celia Paul served on the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and New York University, where she offers a course on career transition for doctors. She has lectured at the New York State Medical Association, and produces group workshops and special seminars. She is the co-author (with Dr. Stephen Rosen) of the book, Career Renewal, cited by Harvard as "a dynamic blueprint for career transitions."

 

Registration Information: Tuition for Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians is $695. Each tuition includes two days of interactive training, continental breakfast and lunch with faculty both days and detailed hand-out materials.
 

Saturday, August 14, 2004
7:00-8:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 Workshop introduction and overview of the two days' activities

The faculty and attendees will introduce each other and the specific career preferences and needs of each attendee will be identified. The faculty will explain the interactive methodology that will be utilized in the course and preview the specific learning modules. Each attendee will be asked to maintain the confidentiality of everything that is discussed during the workshop.
8:15-9:30 Non-Clinical Career Opportunities for Physicians

The faculty will provide a frank explanation of the realities of today's Darwinian job market. A brief survey here, and again in the final section, will look ahead at the more common non-clinical areas of opportunity for physicians including: consulting, education, management, biotechnology, public service, insurance, utilization review, forensic examinations and consultation, entrepreneur/business owner, media, author, association and non-profit management, risk management, occupational health, [etc.] and examples of un-orthodox career transitions.
9:30-10:00 Identification of Priorities, Preferences and Interests

One of the goals of this program is to help physicians find a non-clinical career that meets the physician's priorities, preferences and interests. In this segment physicians will learn how to prioritize their preferences and interests in preparation for exploring new career options. The faculty will provide specific examples and case-histories of how other physicians have found rewarding non-clinical careers that dovetail with their preferences and interests.
10:00-10:15 Break and Networking Opportunity
10:15-12:00 Assessment of Transferable Skills

Every physician possesses numerous valuable skills that are highly transferable to non-clinical positions. The faculty will show the numerous transferable skills that physicians have and employers seek. Attendees will learn how to identify their own particular transferable skills, a crucial precursor to a successful search for a non-clinical position. Also included is a frank discussion of the value of education beyond the MD such as MBAs, JDs, and MPHs, and whether physicians should pursue such education as part of short and long term career plans.
12:00-1:00 Lunch with faculty (provided)
1:00-2:15 Identifying Specific Opportunities

Attendees will learn how to identify specific non-clinical career opportunities. The faculty will explain how to create target lists, multiple searching strategies, where to find information, and how to get advanced information before the competition does.
2:15-3:00 Selling Yourself With Integrity, Dignity and Confidence

Attendees will learn how to confidently and succinctly persuade others of their skills, abilities and value. They will learn how to use their medical background as a persuasive selling point. Each attendee will be asked to present themselves to the group to answer the question "why should I hire you?" Each presentation will be critiqued and attendees will become proficient at selling themselves to potential employers.

3:00-3:15 Break and Networking Opportunity: Building Continuity into the Process
3:15-4:30 Resumes, Bios, and Cover Letters

Attendees will learn how to write effective resumes, bios and cover letters. Included is an explanation of what should be included, what should be left out, and the preferred length of these documents. The faculty will provide examples of superior physician resumes, bios and cover letters and each attendee will have the opportunity to create draft sample resumes, bios and cover letters and have these documents critiqued.

4:30-5:00 Roundtable Review

The faculty will review the material covered and answer any outstanding questions

Sunday, August 15, 2004

6:30-7:00 Continental Breakfast
7:00-8:30 Effective Advanced Networking Techniques for Physicians

One of the most effective ways to learn of and land new opportunities is through networking.  In this section attendees will learn numerous ways to network, with an emphasis on those specific techniques that physicians are in a unique position to utilize.  Attendees will also learn how to establish an on-going career help support network.  The faculty will provide specific examples of how physicians have used networking to find and win non-clinical positions.  This segment also includes an exercise where the attendees will break into pairs to develop and refine their own customized networking "pitch."
8:30-9:45 Informational Interviews

The informational interview is a vital part of any campaign to land a non-clinical position.  The faculty will explain the goal of the informational interview, how to obtain them, informational interviewing dos and don'ts, best practices in informational interviewing and how to identify the best organizations to interview with.  Specific examples of informational interviews leading to rewarding non-clinical careers for physicians will be provided.
9:45-10:00 Break and Networking Opportunity:  Building Continuity into the Process
10:00-12:00 Job Interviewing Skills Practice

Once a physician gets a potential employer's attention, the job interview often becomes the "make or break" event.  In this intensive workshop, attendees will learn how to properly prepare for and excel during job interviews by answering the employer's (often-unspoken) question persuasively:  "Why should I hire you?"  Specific advice for dealing with difficult questions such as salary requirements, reason for leaving medicine, skeletons in the closet, etc. will be provided.  A list of intelligent questions to ask at the interview will also be provided.  This segment will include interactive practice interviews with faculty and participant critiques on how the candidate could have prepared and answered more effectively.
12:00-1:00 Lunch (Provided)
1:00-2:00 More on Interviewing

Attendees will learn what do do (and what not to do) when they receive a job offer.  Included is an explanation of when and how they should negotiate and the decision making process they should employ when considering a job offer.  Attendees will be provided with a checklist of things to consider before accepting a job offer.
2:00-3:00

Action Plans/Next Steps

The faculty and participants will review what was learned over the past two days and each attendee will discover specific plans, present their own "next steps" action plans and their "theory of victory" for their proposed career transition.  How to continue this career-change process, using workshop study partners, recruiters, and other channels is a key objective of this workshop session.
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