I am a married mother of 2 small children, and my psychiatry practice is burning me out on every level... Not only is "part-time" turning to full-time, but my patients' depression, anger, and anxiety have begun to totally drain me.

My thoughtful husband, also a physician, found this website for me, and it has been amazingly helpful to hear about other women's similar experiences.

I am actively looking for a new career, ideally one where I can use my medical degree, but also where I can be creative, possibly work from home, and definitely have more flexible hours.

I have heard about jobs being a medical consultant for books/TV/movies, and I wonder if anyone out there has contacts? I have not been successful in finding info online about this...

Thanks!

I am currently working part time at an urgent care clinic, but I am also very interested in pursuing a non-clinical based career (I have a child with special needs). After reading numerous articles, posts, and books on nonclinical careers, I too am trying to figure out what the next step should be (ie - contacts, etc). Any advice would also be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

That seems to be the million dollar question here. It is hard to find work outside of practice where we can use our medical degree but not actually see patients and still make enough money to pay our bills.

Hi all--
This is my first post to MomMD. I am a 42 y o OBGYN who stopped work two years ago. I'm married to an ENT and we have three kids (boy/girl twins and a third girl). We hit crisis point as a family when the twins were starting kindergarten, I was getting sued, and we had just moved to be back close to our four older parents. My mom was having her second cancer surgery and my dad, whose cardiopulmonary health had been dwindling for a long time, was starting to show signs of dementia. I like to say that 'our family was having lates' and needed to be delivered as soon as possible, or we as a family would not survive. A couple of additional twists and turns led us to feel that my staying home was the best solution.

I have no doubt in my mind that leaving work was the right thing to do. HOWEVER-- I am ready to do something. Something. I've been interested in writing for a long time, but just haven't gotten it together to write that Great Work of Fiction that is inside my head.

Anyway... spurred into action by this site, I contacted a a few places to ask about medical writing. Surprisingly, one called me back! They are a Board Review Course company, and they just happen to really need an OBGYN to write and review content for them.

I have no idea what they will pay, or how much work they will have for me to do, but I hope things work out. We have a telephone meeting scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

The moral here: keep knocking on doors and asking the questions. I do have a feeling that something will show itself!

Hi Cyndi-Lou!

Your name jumped out when I was lurking...nice to find you in 2 places :-)

Good luck tomorrow.

aka ryankckids on PR

:wave: HI Heather! How great to see you over here! I wondered if you knew about this site. Turns out you have known longer than I have.

My DH wonders how I'll survive if this job comes through-- "It's really gonna cut into your sewing time..." -- My response: "Yeah, but it might start to pay for my sewing habit!" :rolleyes:

I'll post about the job and whether it pans out-- XOXO

CindyLou

:crossfingers: :crossfingers:

lemme know if they're looking for fp's :scratchchin:

Or psychiatrists!

At the risk of sounding like an advertiser (I'm not!), this is with the Challenger CME company. They do CME/board review for IM, FP, Pedes, Path, OBGYN, and ERMed. Sorry, no psyc. However, Dr. H should consider giving them a call...!

My mom was a psychiatrist-- graduated from Oklahoma Univ School of Med in 1960. I LOVED psychiatry! I've often wondered how my life would be different now if I had gone into psyc instead of OB... :scratchchin: My DH encouraged me to, as did my parents, but it hit a little close to home for me with my mom already doing it-- it had a lot of family strings attached for me. I hate that it has exhausted you to the point that it has, though. It would be quite wearing, I think-- especially since the 3rd party payers won't recognize the importance of what you do.

How did you find them?

Do they need any pediatricians?