Career Consulting for Physicians Career Consulting for Physicians is a resource for physicians who hope to restore satisfaction and enjoyment in the practice of medicine or find rewarding careers in non-clinical fields.
Many highly committed physicians find the practice of medicine less rewarding than practitioners of just a generation ago. Surveys show that as many as one in five physicians experience significant career disappointment. Leaders of many healthcare organizations have found physician staff recruitment and retention more challenging as doctors have grown frustrated by the increasingly corporate nature of medicine, the endless rules, and the bureaucratic oversight.
I have over 30 years of experience in many different facets of healthcare. (Read more at About Ivo Drury). I've had lots of professional success and my own share of frustrations. Throughout, colleagues have turned to me for help working through decisions about their careers. I've turned that skill and my experiences into a set of written materials to help physicians examine their professional goals and consider career alternatives and to help healthcare organizations achieve high levels of work satisfaction for their physician staff.
The Answers to Career Questions page consists of a series of short practical essays focused on the identification and resolution of career dilemmas.
The Reflections page, in weblog format, provides more contemplative pieces on the nature of career frustrations in the broader challenges of contemporary life.
I hope you find my perspectives helpful.