Alternative Careers

• Careers in Medicine has an excellent resource base for students interested in reading up on alternative careers:  just look under "Shape your Career" and click on "Alternative Careers.

• (April 13, 2010):
  https://www.aamc.org/cim/career/alternativecareers/339520/nonclinicalcareers.html

• the Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty – 3rd ed, Chapter 12

• The Careers in Medicine site for public health careers
• Canada's Public Health Physician's organization
• Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) career profiles
• the CMA Specialty Profile

• Federal, state and local government https://www.aamc.org/cim/career/alternativecareers/
  publicpolicyandgovernment/338414/publicserviceandpolicymaking.html#
• Lobbying and government relations https://www.aamc.org/cim/career/alternativecareers/
  publicpolicyandgovernment/338416/
  lobbyingandgovernmentrelations.html

Writing / Communications / Journalism

• From St. Luke the Apostle to Chekov to Atul Gawande, physicians have been writing for millennia. A suggested starting place to read might be here

• Careers in print journalism and writing https://www.aamc.org/cim/career/alternativecareers/communicationandjournalism/

• Careers in broadcast journalism https://www.aamc.org/cim/career/alternativecareers/communicationandjournalism/
  350064/broadcastjournalism.html

• A Career Profile of Dr. Louise Aronson, who makes writing part of her career

• see article "A New Direction: Physicians Exercise Their Entrepreneurial Skills, Creativity to Pursue Passions Beyond Clinical Medicine" (The Hospitalist. 2013;17(3):1,42-45.)

• Physician entrepreneurs have their own society: http://www.sopenet.org/

• Article https://www.aamc.org/cim/career/alternativecareers/informatics/

• Canada's Health Informatics Association

• Article https://www.aamc.org/cim/career/alternativecareers/pharmaceuticals/

• Article https://www.aamc.org/cim/career/alternativecareers/consulting/

• Book: Army medicine : an image of excellence