Career and Life Planning Guidebook for Medical Residents

Recommended Tool Best Practices to Start a Practice [Onboard] Physician onboarding requires a series of processes on behalf of the employer and your understanding of this process can be a distinguishing factor in your interview preparation and strategy. http://md.careers/CL05 Establish yourself as an “AAA” Doctor from Day #1: Able, Available, and Affable. Able The other physicians, the staff, and the administration need to know that you can do the job and do it well. This also means that the way you manage complicated scenarios will be under a microscope. Resist the need to manage these cases early in your experience to prove a point. If you have partners known to be skilled in the management of complex cases that aredestined tobeaproblem, let themtake the lead and watch very closely. Then debrief with them once they are done to ensure your understood the subtleties of management so you can shine when you are presented with the opportunity. Available When it is your time to work, be there early. No one likes a late physician. If another physician contacts you for some help, respond promptly and show your willingness to help. If you are asked for a consult, do it quickly and call back promptly with the results. If you are hard to reach, people will stop trying to find you. As a new doctor you are trying to establish your practice, which is hard to do if you don’t respond when called. If you are called to the emergency department, be responsive. If you are going to be delayed, communicate and be honest; give a reasonable explanation for the delay and an estimate ofwhen youwill be there. Respond to your pages, texts, calls and emails in a timely manner. Affable You need to be known as an approachable physician. If people don’t like you, they will not want to call you. This includes all members of the healthcare team: nurses, trainees, your colleagues, and hospital administrators. SECTION III: T MINUS ONE YEAR CAREER AND LIFE PLANNING GUIDEBOOK FOR MEDICAL RESIDENTS 338