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This hands on two-day intensive workshop provides physicians contemplating a career change an informed plan to follow in making a transition to a non-clinical career.

Learning Objectives

Career Planning
•Visualize a better future—with yourself in control.
•Deal with guilt, anger, frustration, and financial worries.
•Set realistic career goals, objectives, and expectations.
•Describe the 25 steps in a career transition or job search.
•Identify all costs and expenses associated with a career move.
•Understand the pros and cons of advanced degrees.

Focus
•Understand your usual behavior, underlying needs, and stress behavior.
•See your future with much greater focus and clarity.
•Create a detailed blueprint for your life and career.

The Job Market
•Identify key physician strengths and weaknesses in the marketplace.
•Identify at least 100 alternative career roles for physicians.
•Name the advantages and disadvantages of consulting vs. full-time employment.
•Understand what alternative and non-traditional careers pay.
•Get yourself market-ready.
•Implement a career transition or job search.

Letters and Resumes
•Identify your accomplishments—your work "triples and home runs."
•Write a competency-based, accomplishment-oriented resume.
•Write high impact letters to friends, recruiters, want ads, and prospective
employers.

Networking
•Build a constantly-expanding network.
•Develop consulting opportunities and full-time job leads from your network.

Interviewing
•Make a good first—and last—impression while interviewing.
•Articulate your unique value proposition.
•Answer the 10 most difficult interview questions.
•Negotiate and close a job offer.

Recruiters
•Build and leverage relationships with executive recruiters.

Marketing
•Present a one-year career action plan.

Faculty:
William S. Frank, M.A., is the country’s leading authority on non-clinical careers for physicians. In 1978 he founded CareerLab®, a human resources consulting firm specializing in career management, executive coaching, leadership development, and outplacement. CareerLab® has consulted to more than 300 corporations, including the American Cancer Society, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, CIBA Vision, Columbia/HCA, GAMBRO Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, LifeCare, Medtronic HemoTec, MGMA, Penn State College of Medicine, and Sunrise Healthcare. In 1998 he met Dr. Lorne Weeks, and founded a subspecialty practice called "The Physician Career Network,"™ which became the go-to authority for MDs wanting to improve their careers. PCN has had physician clients in all practice specialties, from anesthesiology to urology. Bill has been featured in "The Physician Executive," "Physician Practice Options," "Physician Financial News," and "Unique Opportunities: ®The Physicians’s Resource." He authored three best-selling career books and has written for business publications and newspapers, from The Wall Street Journal’s "National Business Employment Weekly," and Forbes.com to The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Bill earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts (1968) and an M.A. in Philosophy (1969) from Colorado State University.

T. Robert Mestas, MD, once unofficially known as "the OB/GYN to the Denver Broncos" and other high profile patients, Bob is one of Colorado’s most prominent physicians. In May, 2000, he retired from a booming practice when spinal stenosis impaired his ability to perform surgery. As a Consultant at The Physician Career Network,™, Bob’s role is to serve as a confidential mentor and coach. He helps physicians tune up their practices in at least five areas: 1) People Skills, 2) Technical Skills, 3) Operational Performance, 4) Impairments, and 5) Career Direction and Life Balance. Dr. Mestas completed medical school, internship, and OB/GYN residency at the University of Colorado, and he is certified in the use of The Birkman Method,® a career diagnostic tool.

Andy Dombro, MD, was a practicing physician for nearly twenty years. Andy is a board-certified Internist with extensive experience in both Emergency and Occupational Medicine. He left clinical medicine in 2003 to pursue his passion for writing, speaking, and consulting. The poster child for a successful physician career transition, Andy has been published in regional and national publications, and his tips appear on PGAtour.com. He has been under contract for the past year with Eli Lilly, and he has made paid personal appearances at national and international sporting events on their behalf. As Founder and President of The Institute for Medicine & Golf,™ Dr. Dombro has developed a benchmark survey designed to measure the "state of the health" of PGA Champions and LPGA Tour players.

Saturday, August 20, 2005