“Ask about the day-to-day work life at the companies you’re considering,” says Dr. Siegel. Are you comfortable with what you learn? Can you imagine yourself working there?
As the saying goes, hindsight is always 20/20, and the decision to enter industry is no exception. But the rewards can be sweet and go beyond the material ones. Dr. Finck explains that once Enbrel became available, people started to regard rheumatologists as immunologists, because autoimmune diseases could be managed with biologics. “Rheumatology changed from a subspecialty of primary care to cutting-edge immunology. I’m proud of that and proud that rheumatology didn’t die while I was practicing it,” she says.
