Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366) and index.

Considering your options -- Choosing a generalist tract -- Choosing a specialist tract -- Choosing a transitional year -- Selecting your specialty -- General considerations -- Timing your specialty choice -- Relevant specialty criteria -- Specialty selection methods -- A specialty selection protocol -- Advice from the pros -- Major specialties -- Medical subspecialties -- Surgical subspecialties -- Other subspecialties -- Emerging specialties -- Laying the ground work -- Selecting an advisor/mentor -- Grades to strive for -- Attaining honors -- Board scores and your residency -- Evaluations and their role -- Getting started -- Specialty reality check -- Securing information -- Residency program selection -- Selecting prospective programs -- Strategy for applying -- Evaluating a residency program -- Applying for a residency -- Your application -- Your personal statement -- Your resume -- Your recommendations -- Your transcript -- The residency -- Interview -- Scheduling interviews -- Preliminary preparation -- Preinterview essentials -- Potential interview questions -- Becoming program savy -- Postinterview activities -- Prioritizing your residency choices -- Facing the match -- The match -- Standard match schedule -- PGY-1 training appointments -- Your rank order list -- Other matches -- Your contract -- Becoming oriented -- Residency goals -- The treatment team -- The ancillary staff -- Conflict resolution -- Time management -- Covering for others -- Personal time Off -- moonlighting -- Meeting responsibilities -- Keys to patient care -- Retaining empathy -- Coping with stress -- The impaired resident -- Maintaining efficiency -- Thirty steps to success -- Protecting your assets -- Guarding and maintaining your physical health -- Guarding your mental health -- Maintaining your mental health -- Professional challenges facing residents -- Resident as a student -- Resident as a teacher -- Resident as an ethical caregiver -- Resident's legal guidelines -- Personal challenges facing residents -- Women residents -- Minority group residents -- Religious residents -- Residents with disabilities

Surviving yet thriving -- Adjusting -- Making it work -- The human element -- Mastering the art -- Using your heart -- Thriving -- Securing a position -- Formulating an action plan -- Searching for a position -- Achieving a successfu interview -- Negotiating for the position -- Contract considerations -- Getting ready for work -- Practice options -- Forces for change -- Salaried practitioners -- Solo practice -- Group practice -- Business/management preparation -- Marketing and operating a successful practice -- Keys to professional success -- Marketing your services -- Efficiently operating a practice -- Monitoring Your professional & personal finances -- Maintaining fiscal oversight -- Cost control -- Personal financial planning -- Responding to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) -- Alternative option seekers -- Nontraditional modalities -- CAM status report -- Getting exposed to CAM -- CAM in clinical practice -- The art of medicine -- Healing effectively -- Physician-patient relations -- Physician responsibilities -- Major components of the art -- Practicing the art -- The new frontier.