Navigating the Fourth Quarter - Career Transitions and Exiting Medicine

In this episode, I'm speaking with Drs. Fred Henretig (Penn) and Carl Baum (Yale) about career transitions and exiting medicine. We discuss the current literature surrounding retirement and attrition in medicine, reasons physicians cite for staying vs going, and strategies for handling major career and life transitions.

Below is the information for a few of the articles mentioned in this podcast:

Henretig F, et. al. PEM Physicians' Perceptions of Colleagues' Clinical Competencies Over Four Age Categories. Pediatrics (2022);149:457.
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/149/1%20Meeting%20Abstracts%20February%202022/457/186078/PEM-Physicians-Perceptions-of-Colleagues-Clinical

Pizzo PA. Navigating Transitions and Charting New Paths. JAMA (2017);317(16):1625-6.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2620092

David Brooks - The New Old Age: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/08/career-retirement-transition-academic-programs/675085/