Many non-clinical MBBS/MD doctors work with teams of people who resemble very little with them in education, training, and may have completely unrelated skill sets. Quite often, they may be the only doctor in their team or perhaps the only doctor in their organization.
Working with diverse teams and environments produce many operational challenges in the profession of non-clinical doctors. Some of the important challenges are described below:
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Working with diverse teams and environments produce many operational challenges in the profession of non-clinical doctors. Some of the important challenges are described below:
Loneliness and lack of community feeling
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Lack of a pre-existing career graph in the organization
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Challenges due to the nonmedical subordinates
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Challenges due to the nonmedical bosses
There may be a case that the boss has never worked with a physician before. On the contrary, there can also be cases when the boss has worked with multiple physicians before but he could not get along with them due to ego issues. Both these situations will present several challenges for the non-clinical doctor. For a non-clinical doctor, it may take much longer to establish a healthy work relationship with a non-medico boss. The boss may not be fully aware of the technicalities of the job and may hate medical jargon. The boss may expect oversimplification of the outputs produced by the physician's ordinary tasks. The boss may not use the prefix of "doctor" while addressing the physician which he/she may be so used to.
Frequent changes in the nature of the job and team composition
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Challenges associated with business travel
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While not every operational challenge can be eliminated, with time and experience, one can overcome these challenges by believing in yourself, your team, and the organization. While everybody onboard has to contribute to making their journey smoother, a lot depends on the value system, social and communication skills of the non-clinical doctor that how much the team will respect him while he is around and miss him after he has left the organization.
Did you get a pulse of the work profile of a non-clinical doctor? Feel free to share your views.
Views expressed are personal
Last Updated On 08/22/2019 07:30 PM
Author Profile: Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd., National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease Surveillance Project and the National Polio Surveillance Project.
The author can be contacted through https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/
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