The career opportunities for GPs to work remotely has expanded significantly in recent years. Telemedicine allows you as a GP to reach patients regardless of their geographical location, providing convenient and accessible healthcare. By leveraging this technology and digital tools, you can streamline your work, productivity and make a bigger impact. The advancements in telemedicine present some of the best career options for doctors who want to work remotely, enabling them to deliver high-quality healthcare while enjoying the flexibility and convenience of remote work.

In this episode of Disrupting Doctors Career podcast, we discuss remote working as a doctor, and what opportunities are in clinical and non-clinical capacities with Dr Farah Virjee, a GP and clinical lead at Telehealth company Livi. Dr Farah also shares her journey and aspiration to help you plan and prepare to uncover opportunities in the tech Telemedicine space. 

Listen in and learn from Dr Farah as she uncovers different avenues for remote work where GPs can utilise their expertise and make an impact in clinical and non-clinical positions.

What You Will Learn:

• [00:01] Intro and what in for you in today’s show 
• [01:31] Why Dr Farah moved from traditional clinical GP work to work with telehealth 
• [03:24] Dr Farah's choice of Harvard for her tech entrepreneurship degree and what it involved
• [05:48] The benefits of working remotely and the broad range of work opportunities 
• [09:44] What it is like to be a GP and not physically be in a room of GPs or patients 
• [12:57] How tech in hospitals compare to telehealth and why doctors struggle with it
• [17:28] Different opportunities available for doctors to work remotely 
• [22:53] Dr Farah's inspiration to work at Livi, the interview process and her selling points
• [27:37] The battle between in-person and remote work and where Dr Farah sees us heading in future 
• [29:53] Dr Farah's advice to doctors exploring opportunities purely on remote basis
• [31:28] Ending the show

Standout Quotes:

• “Digital health companies tend to offer long working hours; they appreciate that some people want to work in the evening, first thing in the morning or in the school run and fitting things is a lot easier rather than working in the confines of Surgery opening hours.” - Dr Farah [07:15]
•  “We are heading to a hybrid model, we cannot solely do remote work because some patients need to be seen, there are some things that you can't manage remotely”- Dr Farah [27:38]
•  “Don't be afraid to try different things, you may not find the one that works for you straight away but explore, don't give up and take care of your mental health”- Dr Farah [27:38]

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Dr Abeyna Bubbers-Jones is a practising medical doctor and Founder of Medic Footprints: the global platform connecting doctors with diverse career opportunities beyond conventional medicine.

Her mission is to dramatically elevate health outcomes in the world by connecting 1 million doctors with diverse careers by 2030.

Continually exploring her own path off the medical treadmill, she has developed a wealth of expertise in specialist recruitment connecting industry & health tech companies with talented doctors, whilst supporting & coaching doctors in their own career development and wellbeing.

She is an award-winning entrepreneur, Consultant Occupational Health Physician, BBC Expert Voice, Public Speaker, Musician and not-so-good boulderer!

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