Planning your career after retirement

As a physician executive plans the steps of his or her career, some emphasis should be placed on what is to happen at the end of the professional career. At some point, everyone has to consider retirement plans, and the earlier they begin, especially for financial considerations, the better. In the following article, a member of the College and of its faculty discusses how this process might be initiated. The advice is augmented by information the author obtained in interviews conducted with others who have begun to give retirement some thought or who have already sailed into this aspect of their lives.