Career and Life Planning Guidebook for Medical Residents

Now that you understand these relational models, you can use them to characterize each relationship fromyourownaswellaseachadvisor’sperspectives. This is important because mismatches in the perceived, underlying relational model can cause the relationship to havemissed expectations by one or both parties or to even have major difficulties. As one example, consider how your residency program director viewed your relationship in terms of cost benefit, vis-à-vis the value placed on the time spent with you (e.g., Market Pricing) while you felt like they should be there whenever you needed them (e.g., Communal Sharing). In cases like this, discussing relationship expectations can go a long way in helping you get the advisors and the support you need from individual relationships and fromyour network as a whole. Understanding relational models can also help you determine how to craft your Success Network going forward. Indeed, some of your important and necessary relationshipsmaybemostly transactional as is the case with the market pricing model (e.g., financial advisors) while in other relationships you will want to transition from a more hierarchical authority ranking relationship to one that is more friendship-based like the communal sharingmodel. R E A D : Part 2: Build Your Future Network Your Career and Life Goals: As mentioned earlier, you need to enhance your success network in line with your career and life goals – whether they are focused on financial achievement, reputational targets, practice goals, or more subjective career success goals related to things like successful family transitioning, work-life balance or career satisfaction. This next big career goal is up to you. SECTION III: T MINUS ONE YEAR CAREER AND LIFE PLANNING GUIDEBOOK FOR MEDICAL RESIDENTS 400