1. Figure out your passions and follow them!
The best way to find a path to a role outside the clinic is to acquire an understanding of your real passions. For example, do you like the aspect of counseling your patients? If so, you might consider speaking or teaching. Do you like performing surgery? Perhaps you could be a clinical instructor in a CME event. Figure out what revs your motor and translate it to potential opportunity!
2. Start networking!
Meeting your peers and contemporaries is a crucial step in building a reliable network of professionals who might help you achieve your goals as an entrepreneur or opportunity seeker. But it won’t happen if you don’t look someone in the eye, say hello, shake their hand (once COVID is controlled), and open a conversation. Do it at a dinner, at a CME meeting, at a professional gathering. You can certainly succeed on your own. But a solid network can make it much easier!
3. Be vocal about your goals to anyone who will listen!
This is born from the combination of point #1 and #2 above. When you network, let them know about your goals and pursuits. You just never know who is able, and even willing, to help you achieve those goals. But they can’t do it if they don’t know what it is you wish to pursue. So let them know! And you just might trip across a connection that will force open doors that were previously closed!
Rob Casquejo, PA-C
Owner & Founder
Skin and Cancer Center of Scottsdale