30-60-90 day plans
A plan for exactly where you are.
Pick the one that matches your stage. Each plan flexes to 2, 5, or 10 hours a week, so it works whether you are flat out or have some room. The persona and objective are free. The full plan unlocks with the playbook.
Pre-clinical med student
You are in the first two or three years of medical school, before clinical placements take over your life. You suspect you might not want a conventional medical career, or you just want options. You have the rarest asset of anyone reading this: time. Years of it, with low financial pressure and no training-grade ladder to climb off.
PreviewClinical-year med student
You are on clinical placements, possibly heading into finals. Your time is squeezed and your energy goes on passing exams and not embarrassing yourself on the ward. But you have levers a working doctor does not: electives, SSCs, audit and QI projects you can shape, and a student's licence to ask naive questions. The trick is to use the medical-school machinery itself as your pivot infrastructure.
PreviewF1 / F2 doctor
You are a foundation doctor, newly qualified, finding your feet clinically and already wondering if this is it. You are not desperate to leave and you are not ready to burn your training. You want to explore properly without quitting, and you want to silence the voice that says exploring means you are wasting the years it took to get here. You have a salary, structured time off (zero days, annual leave, study budget), and a credential that is still fresh.
PreviewF3 / F4, burned out
You finished foundation training and stepped off, or you are about to. You are tired in a way that sleep does not fix. You might be locuming, travelling, or just stopped. You want out of the thing that broke you, but you are at real risk of sprinting toward the first exit ramp out of exhaustion rather than choosing well. This plan treats your burnout as a fact to manage, not a weakness to push through.
PreviewRegistrar considering leaving
You are a specialty registrar (CT/ST), years into training, possibly close to CCT. You have real clinical expertise, a mortgage maybe, dependents maybe, and the most to lose of anyone here. Leaving now means walking away from a near-finished, hard-won qualification, and the sunk-cost pull is enormous. But your specialty expertise is also your sharpest asset: radiology maps onto imaging AI, surgery onto surgical robotics and devices, psychiatry onto digital mental health. This plan is about deciding well under high stakes, not jumping.
PreviewFinal-year PhD (pharma / biotech)
You are writing up or finishing a PhD in a life-sciences, biomedical, or health-data field. You may or may not be medically qualified. You are deciding between staying in academia and moving to industry, and within industry you may not realise there are three quite different tracks open to you. Your thesis is a serious piece of proof-of-work; the gap is usually commercial and translational fluency, not capability. Recruiting cycles for PhDs (consulting, pharma) often run on fixed timelines, so timing matters.
PreviewNurse / pharmacist / AHP
You are a nurse, midwife, pharmacist, or allied health professional, and you have noticed that almost every 'leaving clinical for tech' story features a doctor. That framing is wrong and it has probably made you underrate your own position. You have operational depth, frontline workflow knowledge, prescribing or medicines expertise, and in many cases more direct experience of the systems healthtech is trying to fix than any doctor. This plan is about claiming routes that are genuinely open to you and ignoring the doctor-centric noise.
PreviewAlready left, needs credibility
You have already left clinical work, or you are clearly on your way out, and now you face a different problem: convincing non-NHS employers that your years in medicine count for something they can use. You may have a CV gap, a sense that recruiters do not know what to do with you, and a nagging worry that you are starting from zero. You are not starting from zero. You are starting from a misfiled position, and the job is to repackage and prove, fast.
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