I've posted before about my life as a series of sabbaticals. I'm not the only one who loves them. On the Lean Out Podcast, I interviewed Meagan Gallagher, who took a long climbing trip in between nursing studies and her clinical career. Dr. Weili Gray also took a 9 month sabbatical early in her …
Lean Out Podcast: Mini-Retirements with Jillian Johnsrud
What I want for everyone reading: Career sustainability. There are multiple ways to optimize your career sustainability. One is to do your job part-time so you can spend your other time doing things that bring you joy. It might mean less money, it might mean retiring later than you had …
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Lean Out Podcast: Adventure with Meagan Gallagher
What's your vision for your work-life balance? Is a crucial element currently missing? Is there an element you're working to incorporate? When I was in medical school, everything I studied seemed interesting. But I didn't even entertain certain specialties as something I would do, because the …
Lean Out Podcast: Dream with Weili Gray
I heard about Dr. Weili Gray's fledgeling podcast the Dare to Dream Physician through a friend. I happened to listen to an episode where she described how she had taken a 9 month sabbatical between fellowship and her first attending physician job out of training. Not only did she slow down, learn …
Island Anesthesia
My Experience As A Traveling Doctor in the Virgin Islands A locum tenens is a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another, and the term is often used for medical work assignments in locations of ongoing physician shortage. As the locum, you’re going to a foreign place to work with …
Life as a Series of Sabbaticals
I'm 44, and in my adult life I've taken something like six "sabbaticals". Upon hearing the word sabbatical, one traditionally thinks of a university professor taking a paid leave for one year, approximately every seven years, in order to complete a special project or write a book. But the …
