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Career Decision-Making in Medicine: Practical Approaches

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  • Consider both traditional (rational) and non-traditional (emotional, life) factors when making a career decision.

  • Obtain an objective assessment of your abilities and ask yourself “Do these abilities match the skills necessary for the job I am considering?”

  • Realize that ambivalence and ambiguity are always a part of any major decision.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 924 E 57th Street, Suite 104, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Shalini Reddy MD

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Director, Hosp Procedural Sedation Mgmt, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, BOSTON, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

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  2. Assistant Professor of Biomed Informatic, Director, Center for EB Anesthesia, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, 37212, Tennessee, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

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Reddy, S. (2012). Career Decision-Making in Medicine: Practical Approaches. In: Urman, R., Ehrenfeld, J. (eds) Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0551-1_3

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