As you prepare to graduate, consider my experience in building a great practice of your own. After having had the opportunity to work with several hundred surgical specialists across the nation, it's interesting to see the steps taken by various practitioners to improve the quality of their practices - for the benefit of themselves, their employees, their referring doctors and their patients. Incredibly successful surgical specialists that I've had an opportunity to work with indeed have excellent clinical skills - but they also have more than that, in fact they define themselves by the Relationships that they build not only with their patients but with their referring doctors as well. Most of us establish at least simple Rapport with the patients and doctors we work with - but Rapport and Relationship differ. The focal point is always clinical needs and very event oriented.
Communication is highly personalized.
The focal point is based on wants - it's very process oriented. Establish a purpose to your working together. Become a leader to practitioners in your area - not just the new or young ones or ones that refer to you. Work with them with individualized plans. Find out what your referring doctors want their practices to be like.