Updated: 12/11/2009

We are pleased to offer a personalized career counseling service for those who are serious about transitioning into a non-clinical career. I have been approached by many medical students, residents, physicians, and other healthcare professionals who wish to learn how to find the right non-clinical opportunity.

We are currently working with several career counselors/coaches/mentors who are willing to work with you on a personalized level. Please note that this is a paid career counseling service. If you're serious about making a career transition and you would like some personalized one-on-one coaching to guide you through that process, then please contact me.

We are currently focusing on the following areas:
 

• Medical communications/writing/education: medical marketing, advertising, promotional educational, certified medical education, medical publications, paid blogging, and more. You will have an opportunity to work directly with physicians who have worked in the medical communications industry as medical writers and medical directors.
   
• Consulting (McKinsey, Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, etc.) You will have an opportunity to work directly with a former McKinsey internal executive recruiter who is also a former McKinsey consultant (Business Analyst). He is willing to coach and guide clinicians interested in healthcare consulting. As part of the coaching process, he will review and analyze case studies with you to prepare you for the interview process.
• Health Information Technology (Health IT): electronic health records (EHRs), personal health records (PHRs), decision support analysis, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), and more. You will have an opportunity to work directly with several physicians who have worked in various areas within health IT. One physician completed a biomedical informatics fellowship at Harvard and is working for a start-up health IT company. Another physician worked for an electronic personal health record (PHR) company and developed consumer health portals.
   
• Pharma/Biotech: medical affairs, clinical research, regulator, writing, and more. You will have an opportunity to work directly with physicians who have worked in pharma/biotech. They are willing to share their personal career transition stories with you. You will also have the opportunity to work with pharma/biotech internal executive recruiters who are willing to coach clinicians about jobs in pharma/biotech and guide people through the transition process of leaving clinical medicine and entering the business world.
   

Our career counselors are experienced professionals who can guide you and help you "break in" or help you advance your career within specific non-clinical industries. We also have a team of human resource (HR) professionals who can help you with ob interviewing, salary negotiations, and much more.

As I recruit additional coaches and counselors, I will announce updates to those who are registered members of our " Non-Clinical Healthcare Professionals" network. You can access this page by clicking on the "Career Counseling" link at the top of the home page on http://www.nonclinicaljobs.com.