Pathways
Explore where your medical career could go next.
Physician careers do not always follow a single path.
GME™ helps physicians understand professional possibilities, explore different ways to apply their medical background, and build direction around what comes next.
Whether you're considering a different practice setting, a new field, greater leadership responsibility, or simply trying to understand your options, Pathways is a place to begin.
Featured Pathway
Occupational Medicine
Medicine beyond the traditional clinical setting.
Occupational medicine gives physicians opportunities to apply medical knowledge across workplace health, prevention, population health, employee wellbeing, injury and illness management, and organizational leadership.
Explore the work physicians do, where occupational medicine careers can lead, how physicians enter the field, and the education and training considerations that may shape the path.
More Directions to Explore
A physician career can take many forms.
Medical expertise can create value well beyond a single specialty, practice model, or clinical environment.
GME is developing additional pathway resources to help physicians understand where their experience, interests, and professional goals could lead.
In Development
Corporate Medicine
Apply medical expertise inside organizations.
Explore physician roles involving employee health, corporate medical strategy, workforce wellbeing, medical policy, and enterprise leadership.
In Development
Population & Public Health
Create impact across communities and populations.
Explore physician careers focused on prevention, population health, community health, public-sector medicine, and health strategy.
In Development
Medical Leadership
Move from clinical expertise to broader influence.
Explore pathways toward medical director, physician executive, clinical leadership, and organizational decision-making roles.
In Development
Healthcare Administration
Help shape how healthcare is delivered.
Explore opportunities involving healthcare operations, clinical strategy, quality, program development, and organizational leadership.
In Development
Industry Careers
Bring a physician perspective to healthcare innovation.
Explore opportunities across life sciences, medical technology, digital health, healthcare companies, and other physician-led or physician-informed environments.
More GME Career Pathways will be added as educational resources, professional connections, and opportunities develop.
Join the Physician Talent NetworkFrom Possibility to Direction
Exploring a career path involves more than finding a job.
A meaningful career decision starts with understanding the field, considering how it fits your background and goals, and determining what next step makes sense for you.
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Understand the Possibilities
Learn what different physician careers actually involve, where physicians work, and how medical expertise can be applied in new settings.
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Consider Your Direction
Look at your education, training, experience, interests, values, and professional goals in the context of the paths available to you.
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Build a Next Step
Move forward through education, professional development, strategic connections, opportunity exploration, or additional training when appropriate.
Explore Occupational Medicine
Start with the questions that matter most.
Explore the Occupational Medicine Pathway based on what you want to understand.
What Is Occupational Medicine?
Understand the field, the role of the occupational medicine physician, and how medicine intersects with work, prevention, workforce health, and organizations.
Understand the FieldWhere Can an Occupational Medicine Career Take You?
Explore clinical practice, corporate medicine, employer-based healthcare, medical leadership, consulting, government, academic, and research environments.
Explore Career SettingsUnderstanding Training & Board Certification
Learn how occupational medicine residency education, prior postgraduate training, public-health education, occupational medicine practice, and board certification may relate to one another.
Understand the Path
Not Sure Where to Start?
You don't need to know your destination before starting the conversation.
Some physicians come to GME with a specific career path in mind. Others simply know they want something different.
Tell us about your education, experience, interests, and what you're hoping to accomplish. GME can help you explore the possibilities and determine what may be worth considering next.
- Confidential
- No cost to physicians
- No obligation
- Focused on your goals and potential next steps