Congratulations on choosing a career as a traveling rehabilitation healthcare professional! Your education has prepared you well to deliver the specialized care that the United States population needs. Your training will help people of a variety of ages and backgrounds redevelop the physical and emotional strengths they need to return to work, extracurricular activities and other areas of their lives that injuries or developmental challenges have kept from them.
Appropriately, most rehabilitation professionals exert tremendous, focused effort on developing technical knowledge through education and on the job training. However, few take time at the outset of their careers to properly plan their professional lives.
• What are my primary allied health career goals?
• What type of life do I want my career to support?
• What will travel or local PT, OT or SLP contract assignments help me accomplish?
• Where should I look for the best PT, OT and SLP job opportunities?
• How do I choose reliable people and companies to work with?
• How can I build a professional network that works hard for me in helping me achieve my goals?
• What are some of the challenges I expect to face and how will I overcome them?
• Am I truly prepared to take my professional life ‘on the road’?
• How can I develop a continual process of discovery, experience, assessment of my progress and adjustment so that I am certain to achieve my goals?
Answering these and many more key questions can make all the difference between a career built on deliberate choices or one that has resulted from unexpected twists & turns.
MDI Medical is dedicated to your success. We recognize your professional talents and experiences, we value you as a person, and we are committed to helping you achieve your dreams. Getting the Most from Your Rehab Travel Career is an evolving publication based on the accumulation of many years helping thousands of rehabilitation professionals just like you. In this career guide we share our knowledge of the rehab travel market, our experiences finding just the right assignment for each traveler we serve, and the tips, tools and resources that can help you design the career of your dreams.
In the coming days, I'll post more from Part 1, which focuses on self assessment and goal setting. If you like, you can download the PDF here.
Congratulations on taking this important step. We look forward to contributing to your long term success.
Safe Travels!
