I've been an ER doc for over 30 years. In the last year I've become involved in training the other doctors for the new electronic medical records that the hospital will be installing. I've discovered a new passion in doing this, and after so many years I'm about ready to move out of patient care. Somehow I've been able to talk the hospital into putting me through an introductory medical informatics course and hiring me part time as the medical director of informatics (while still working my full clinical shifts). The course is online, so it's not full time, but it's a lot more course work than I've done in years. If this works out, I can see going on to get my master's degree and doing this full time. My only regret will be possibly having to be a "9-5er" instead of 4 days a week. But I think the change will be good for me and everyone around me. BTW, I'm 54 now and the master's would probably take me about 3 years.