To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to David Best, MD, MBA.
Dr. Best entered the world of pharmaceuticals in 1982 with Klemtner Advertising, a division of Saatchi and Saatchi, where he served as medical director and Senior Vice President Account Supervisor. Subsequently, he was Medical Services Director for Bristol-Myers Squibb and on July 10, 1989, started the first scientifically credentialed Medical Science Liaison group. He went on to create Colleague Medical, a peer-to-peer dinner meeting company for Excerpta Medica and Reed Elsevier. In 1995, he returned to the Saatchi organization and started BESTMED, a medical education company with the slogan, “the most creative med ed company in the world.” Dr. Best is currently President of MDea, a medical education company in New York which recently launched http://www.thedoctorschannel.com/ hailed by CNBC’s Power Lunch as “An educational You Tube for doctors.”
The Doctor’s Channel (www.thedoctorschannel.com) is a Web site that allows doctors to learn from each other at their convenience. The time-saving site includes short one- to two-minute streaming video clips designed to get to the point, with insights and opinions from experts in 35 different specialties, as well as community and lifestyle features that help doctors stay on top of the latest news, ideas and information. The Doctor’s Channel is based in New York and was founded by Dr. Best and Michael Banks, MD.
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