Physiatrists who want to augment their current practice or continue to use their medical knowledge to work in a professional setting outside of patient care have a variety of options, including:
areas still connected to clinical medicine (e.g., telemedicine); some that are more removed from medicine (e.g., financial industry), as well as several hybrids (e.g., medico-legal, disability reviews, etc.).
The list below is a sampling of alternative career options that you may want to learn more about.
- Computer Technology
- Jobs at IT companies, Electronic Health Record (EHR) companies
- Consultant
- General health care business consulting for companies such as McKinsey, Deloitte, Boston Consulting Group, etc. and for insurance/managed care and pharmaceutical companies
- Disability – reviews and determinations
- Expert Witness
- Hospital/Health Care System Administrator
- Informatics
- Life Care Planner
- Locum Tenums
- Medical Communications (radio and TV reporting, Internet/YouTube)
- Medical Director
- For insurance/managed care and pharmaceutical companies
- Medical Exams
- Medical Finance (health care venture capital, private equity, etc.)
- Medical Writer
- Newspaper
- Magazines
- Media (TV, movies, etc.)
- Medico-Legal
- Pharmaceutical
- Expert for drug per condition
- Physician Coaching as a Career
- Physician Lead
- Managing director, CMO, CMIO, CEO positions for health care venture capital firms, private equity firms, investment banking firms
- Public Policy (state/fed positions, lobbying, NGOs)
- Research (independent companies, CROs)
- Search and Rescue
- School of Medicine/Public Health Professor/Administrator/Dean
- Speakers Bureau
- Concierge Practice
- Telemedicine
- Utilization Review
- Workman’s Compensation