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Choosing the Job of your Dreams – A Career in Community-Based Emergency Medicine

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Choosing a dream job is like choosing a dream partner. There is no perfect job, but with some searching, you can find a job that will provide both fulfillment and happiness. This chapter presents major criteria that are paramount in choosing a job, which are broken into Tier 1 and Tier 2 considerations. Tier 1 considerations consist of the major items that affect the personal life of the emergency physician, including location, salary, and schedule, whereas Tier 2 considerations are intangibles that differentiate a miserable work life from a wonderful one. The intangibles include culture matches, commute, and employer. The chapter advises aspiring emergency physicians (EPs) to research job opportunities and organize their practice aspirations to prioritize what is most important to them.

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  1. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Ngoc-Anh Nguyen

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  1. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Robert P. Olympia

  2. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Elizabeth Barrall Werley

  3. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Lubin

  4. MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Kahyun Yoon-Flannery

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Nguyen, NA. (2023). Choosing the Job of your Dreams – A Career in Community-Based Emergency Medicine. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_31

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