The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Right Job After Residency

By Joyesh K. Raj and Koushik K. Shaw

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This is a one-of-a-kind single source compendium of employment advice for residents looking for their first job and physicians looking to make career changes. For the first time, important issues such as geographic considerations, partnerships, salaries, legalities, starting an effective job search, interviewing tips, contract negotiation, are all discussed in detail by someone who's been there and lived it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071461132
• ISBN13: 9780071461139
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Helps solving all job search problems

The doctor looking for a job must solve five main problems: 1) Define practice matching criteria - avoid regretting a wrong choice; 2) Define a good practice - avoid joining a second-tier practice; 3) Plan the interview process - make sure you ask the key questions; 4) Understand necessary legalese - what must be covered in your contract and what should be skipped; 5) Negotiate your compensation and benefits. Keep this book next to you during your job search - it helps solving all of your job search problems. Yuval Lirov, Practicing Profitability - Billing Network Effect for Revenue Cycle Control in Healthcare Clinics and Chiropractic Offices: Collections, Audit Risk, SOAP Notes, Scheduling, Care Plans, and Coding

Outstanding

The surprisingly good "The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Right Job after Residency" written by Koushik Shaw was published in late 2005. It is probably the most useful book for the physician job search that I have come across so far. It is short, concise, to the point (sometimes a bit too short), but it covers absolutely everything that is relevant from getting to know your personal preferences in your work life to determining where exactly you want to live and work, how to find a job, how to interview, and - kudos for this section - how to analyze a practice you are looking at, what questions to ask a potential employer to uncover risks and possible mismatches early. The author goes into details of analyzing benefits offered by an employer and negotiating a contract. He even goes into the basics of opening your own practice. Overall very well written, in good style, very easy and quick to read and extremely informative. One smart book everybody should read at least once and at least one year before graduation.

The only book of its kind

This is the only book of its kind that I was able to find. I am an anesthesiologist leaving the Army and joining the ranks of the civilian world. This book assisted me in understanding the Pros and Cons of different practice set-ups, and made me a more informed candidate during my job search.

Brief Overview from the Author

I put this guidebook together in order to help my fellow physicians go through the job process which I recently finished. Although most of us finish residency as great doctors, we are usually not well schooled in the business and contract aspects of medicine. What people have told me they like most about the book are: 1) How to tell what practice type is right for you 2) How to tell good from not-so good practices 3) The right questions to ask in the interview process 4) How to wade through your contract and make sure that the right points are included, and most importantly avoid pitfalls 5) How to target an appropriate salary and benefit package. Finally, I know we're all short of time, so I've done my best to make the book an easy read...shouldn't take more than an 1-2 evenings to go through most of the salient points. I hope you find this guidebook helpful and best of luck in your search!

A must read for chosing the right path after residency

From the very first page to the last the book is full of useful tips on how to conduct your research into positions to what kind of salaries and contracts to expect. A great find.