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career change MD ->? |
| Message Name: |
you are nuts |
| Date Posted: |
01/28/2001 |
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I just started my first year of residency in NYC. I've come to the conclusion that I need to get out of medicine. Can anyone give me advice on how I can get into consulting? May be investment banking. Just anything that gets me out of doing rectal exams. |
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Just bite the bullet and complete your residency (internal med rotation for now?). Believe me, there are many others in your position and they are sticking with it despite a number of bad experiences. Medicine is what they sacrificed their undergraduate experience and early lives for. Think about the long term and the bullshit that comes with working within a consulting or banking corporation. Doctors hardly get canned and work awesome hours for what they get paid. Consultants are pimped out all across the country to do on-site client work and bankers, let's not start talking about bankers. There are many other things to do with an MD instead of selling out to consulting and banking. What so attractive about the two (sexy on the exterior, shitty when you actually do it) fields? The money? Don't tell me that 's why you wanted to become a doctor because that would be really pathetic.
To be helpful, though, an MD is probably the best chip to have on your side. Every consulting firm and bank has a health care group. Best bet is to target those groups. Call up a recruiter at every firm and be persistent. These places need you more than you will ever need them so you have nothing to lose. Headhunters are awesome as well (KornFerry, Robert Half, etc.) The only hangup would be which level you would like to enter. Banks need to weigh your financial knowledge and deal experience for an associate+ position. If you have none, they will probably place you in an analyst position. I'm not sure how consulting firms would do it. Though less financial than a bank, your industry knowledge would probably be the most useful to them.
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