About Your Coach

Dr. Denice Franco is a board-certified physician specializing in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). She completed medical school and residency training and has worked in various settings in her career. She also prioritizes her family, friends and personal interests outside of medicine and knows the struggle of finding balance. Dr. Franco works with medical students for over six years at a medical school. Her favorite off-topic topic to discuss with the students is what specialty they are leaning into!

Dr. Franco can relate to the life of the med student

• for years you were on a well-paved path

• you were told the recipe on how to get to college and how to get into medical school

• You followed the path to be successful and followed the “recipe” to get to this point

• Then, third year medical school hits and all of a sudden you are expected to just know which medical specialty you will have to spend THE REST OF YOUR MEDICAL CAREER working in. This is a crucial decision that will truly shape your life.

  At this moment, physicians can’t switch fields without re-doing years of training but the reason is you will be the expert. But being the expert comes at a price. You need to decide what price you want to pay… in years, relationships, finances, mood, energy….

Making decisions this important is MUCH easier when you know yourself and what makes you tick.

• What inspires you, what gives you hope, what energizes you!?

• You may think you don’t know even yourself anymore after being on the “paved path” for so long.

• You weren’t able to think about fun or creativity or inspiration to stay on the path.

The good news is the answers still lie within you. You may just need support to make this huge decision without future regret and with the ultimate goal of being inspired every day in medicine so you can be HAPPY, inspired, focused and be at peace with your life.

Let’s do this!