{"id":6386,"date":"2024-12-09T10:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/studentaffairs-dev\/current-students\/student-success\/career-goal-advising\/alternative-medical-careers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:19:55","slug":"alternative-medical-careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-affairs\/for-current-students\/advising\/career-goal-advising\/alternative-medical-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Medical Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Recommended Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.nejmcareercenter.org\/article\/outside-the-fold-exploring-nonclinical-work-opportunities-for-physicians\/\">NEJM CareerCenter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indeed.com\/career-advice\/finding-a-job\/non-clinical-jobs-for-mds\">10 Non-Clinical Jobs for M.D.s &#8211; Indeed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/popmedicine\/popmedicine\/98564\">Lucrative Medical Careers for Doctors Who Don&#8217;t Match &#8211; MedPage Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/opmed.doximity.com\/articles\/beyond-the-stethoscope-the-growing-appeal-of-non-traditional-med-careers\">Beyond the Stethoscope: The Growing Appeal of Non-Traditional Med Careers, Op-Med<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nonclinicalcareers.com\/\">Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians, SEAK<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>MD\/MBA<\/h2>\n<h2>Leave of Absence<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended Resources NEJM CareerCenter 10 Non-Clinical Jobs for M.D.s &#8211; Indeed Lucrative Medical Careers for Doctors Who Don&#8217;t Match &#8211; MedPage Today Beyond the Stethoscope: The Growing Appeal of Non-Traditional Med Careers, Op-Med Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians, SEAK MD\/MBA Leave of Absence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79967,"featured_media":0,"parent":2460,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alternative Medical Careers | Office of Student Affairs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-affairs\/for-current-students\/advising\/career-goal-advising\/alternative-medical-careers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alternative Medical Careers | Office of Student Affairs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recommended Resources NEJM CareerCenter 10 Non-Clinical Jobs for M.D.s &#8211; 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