Nov 04 2023 41 mins
What do doctors need to unlearn to make a successful career change? Join Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones and Dr. Sven Jungmann, CEO of halitus, as they discuss the misconceptions doctors face when considering career changes.
Dr. Jungmann challenges the traditional view of medical education, emphasizing the acquisition of diverse skills. Find out what are the important qualities you need to focus on showcasing to hiring companies, and the importance of adaptability in the entrepreneurial world.
For those considering a shift from clinical medicine, the book "Beyond the Bedside" by Dr. Sven offers invaluable guidance. We are giving away free copies of the book to the first 10 doctors who email us at [email protected] with one thing you have unlearnt when listening to this episode!
Timestamped Overview:
- [00:02:12] Experience, unlearning, introducing CEO of Halitus.
- [00:04:07] Medical student's epiphany led to snakebite antitoxin.
- [00:08:33] Getting to the top 2% requires a lot of time investment.
- [00:13:20] Micro learning is important; experience is becoming less relevant.
- [00:16:06] Rely on Google, Chat GPT, outsource tasks.
- [00:19:44] Choosing between two options: shortage or mindset.
- [00:22:35] Leveraging doctor's licence for side jobs.
- [00:26:50] Medical school offers unique, lifelong careers.
- [00:31:19] Learning can hinder progress in different contexts.
- [00:33:32] Book about doctors' alternative career paths.
- [00:35:33] Surgery didn't suit my creative background.
- [00:38:55] Challenge and giveaway.
Standout Quotes:
The Impact of Choosing a Challenging Path: "I think if you have only a limited amount of time in life and it's going to be hard anyway, why not do something where it's hard? But the return, the social return and also maybe the personal return is higher than you otherwise could have turns out also."
— Sven Jungmann [00:06:17 → 00:06:33]
The Power of Diversification: "And if you instead say, well, actually, I'm going to learn two things, or maybe even three things, and I'm trying to get in the top 20%, then your relative return on the time invested in order to get there is much higher."
— Sven Jungmann [00:09:26 → 00:09:40]
The Pressure to Keep Learning: "Oh, yeah. I think what I often hear from doctors is this constant sense of not being good enough or well trained enough, or there's some certificate lacking that gives you this official permission to do X, Y, or Z."
— Sven Jungmann [00:11:35 → 00:11:48]
The Rise of Micro Learning: "And what's much more important is the ability to access knowledge and also to make sense of it and communicate it to others and to interrogate computer systems in an intelligent way."
— Sven Jungmann [00:14:04 → 00:14:15]
The Changing Definition of Medicine in the Digital Age: "There are a lot of medical professions that are not directly involved in patient care, and nobody would question that, right? But suddenly, if you work on a digital health solution, or if you are in medical journalism or other decision making aspects or whatever, that touch medicine, somehow it often gets questioned."
— Sven Jungmann [00:20:22 → 00:20:41]
The Myth of the Risk-Taking Founder: "Yeah, I fully agree. So there's this often unspoken fact about founding, for example, and is that you always think founders are big risk takers people. They jump off a cliff, and then they start building the airplane as they fall, and then somehow it works in one out of ten cases."
— Sven Jungmann [00:23:32 → 00:23:53]
The Importance of Adaptability: "The things that got me here, they might not get me wherever I want to go now, and maybe even they might hold me back."
— Sven Jungmann [00:31:34 → 00:31:42]
"Beyond the Bedside: It is okay that you think about it."
— Sven Jungmann [00:34:23 → 00:34:25]
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dr Abeyna Bubbers-Jones is a practising medical doctor and Founder of Medic Footprints: the global platform connecting doctors with diverse career opportunities beyond conventional medicine.
Her mission is to dramatically elevate health outcomes in the world by connecting 1 million doctors with diverse careers by 2030.
Continually exploring her own path off the medical treadmill, she has developed a wealth of expertise in specialist recruitment connecting industry & health tech companies with talented doctors, whilst supporting & coaching doctors in their own career development and wellbeing.
She is an award-winning entrepreneur, Consultant Occupational Health Physician, BBC Expert Voice, Public Speaker, Musician and not-so-good boulderer!