Careers in Medicine

A Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions

PREFACE

1. Contemplating a career in medicine

A History Major--Why I Wish to Attend Medical School 
Bjorn Herman

An English Major--Coming into Medicine
Lydia Pace

A Science and Humanities Major--Listening to Your Heart
Marlynn Wei

A Pre-Med Major--Tackling the Pre-Med Decision 
Michael Mann

A Science and Bioethics Major--The Inspiration of Purpose
Julie Kang

2. Preparing for medical school

A Hospital Chief of Staff 
Peter Herbert

A Pre-medical Adviser 
Stanley Rosenbaum

The Chairman of an Admissions Committee 
Thomas Lentz

The Director of an MD-PhD Program 
James Jamieson

A Medical Student 
Vivek Murthy

A Graduate Student 
D. George Joseph 

A Surgical Resident 
Christopher Coppola

A Medical Resident 
Stefan Weiss

A Psychiatrist 
Richard Belitsky

A Cardiologist 
Steven Wolfson

A Former Medical School Dean 
Gerard Burrow

3. Training to become a doctor

Medical School

A First-year Student in the Pre-clinical Sciences 
Julie Cantor

A Second-year Student in the MD-PhD Program 
David Ross

A Third Year Student in Clinical Clerkships 
Dena Rifkin

Teaching Medical Students 
Peggy and Frank Bia 

Advising Medical Students 
Nancy Angoff

The Future of Medical School Education
Herbert Chase

Residency

A Program Director 
Rosemarie Fisher

Residents
Bobby Kapur
Mikhail Kosiborod

Postdoctoral Fellows
Julie Rosenbaum
Jonathan Dranoff

4. Professing Medicine

Medicine as a Profession 
Robert Donaldson

A Physician's Character 
Albert Jonsen

The Faithful Physician 
Alan Mermann

Medicine as a Calling 
Gerald Friedland

International Health and Human Rights
Ramin Ahmadi

Women in Medicine 
Dyan Griffin & Laura Ment

Medicine and Diversity
Juanita Merchant 
John Blanton

Transitions in Medical Life 
Vincent DeLuca

Growing Old in Medicine 
Howard Spiro

5. Practicing Medicine

The Future of Internal Medicine 
David Melchinger

Coming to Surgery
Cynthia Gingalewski & Dana Andersen
Charles McKhann

Practicing Pediatrics 
Morris Wessel

A Day in the Life of a Woman in Medicine
Ann Skopek

The World of Obstetrics and Gynecology 
Mary J. Minkin

Practicing Psychiatry 
Malcolm Bowers

The Future of Diagnostic Imaging 
Bruce McClennan

The Role of the Pathologist in Clinical Medicine 
Brian West

How Genetic Analysis Helps Patients
Maurice J. Mahony

6. Practicing in the Health Sciences

Nursing: Then and Now 
Florence Wald & Catherine Gilliss

A Man's Experience in Nursing 
Douglas Olsen

Modern Midwifery 
Deborah Cibelli

How I Became a Physician Associate 
Angela DeLisle

The Art of the Apothecary
Sandra Alfano

A Lawyer in a Medical Environment 
Angela Holder

Divinity, Ethics and Medicine
Kathleen Lundgren

Mental Health at the Margins of Society
Michael Rowe

A Social Worker's Lessons: Three Rules of the Road
Evie Lindemann

My Life in Medical Social Work
Gail Korrick

A Career in Public Health
Susan Addiss

Coming to Medicine Through Anthropology
Nora Groce

Coming to Medicine through Health Psychology 
Peter Salovey & Kelly Brownell

Why I Chose Chiropractic
Michael Cocco

Some Musings about Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Howard Spiro

7. Conducting Biomedical Research

On Being and Becoming a Physician Scientist 
Leon Rosenberg

A Bioethicist Concerned with Research in Humans 
Robert Levine

Conducting Patient-Centered Research 
Harlan Krumholz 

A Career as Physician-Scientist: Is it Worth the Effort?
Jeffrey Bender

The Path to Laboratory Research 
Fred Gorelick

Medical Informatics: Computers and Patient Care
Perry Miller

The Rewards of a Life in Science
Susan Hockfield

8. Becoming a Physician-Executive 

An M.D./MBA in Health Care Management
Attilio Granata

A V.P. and Head of U.S. Medical Science in Pharmaceuticals
E. Paul Mac Carthy

9. Thinking About Medical Writing and the Humanities

The Humanities and Medicine 
Thomas Duffy

Excerpt from How We Die
Sherwin Nuland

Excerpt from The Exact Location of the Soul 
Richard Selzer

Introduction: Careers in Medicine