Here are resources aplenty for doctors and other people in the medical fraternity.
Resources for doctors in difficulty, from the BMA
NHS’s Career Progression – new opportunity for Specialty Doctors and Associate Specialists (SAS doctors) to access resources for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
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If you are an aspiring doctor, you are likely to be looking for useful material that will help you on your way. Whether it is course selection tips, course guidance, online revision material, career opportunities, professional improvement pathways, lessons and insights from senior practitioners in your field, you are sure to find the right kind of resources by browsing patiently through these pages.
Here’s a resource for medical students or professionals who have an ensuing interview for a course or for a job. The resource comes to you apparently from a person who has been there, done that. Discover the principles of communication well in your forthcoming interview. You can do so well as to ‘boss’ the entire medical interview. The service claims to offer personalised training too. Look up Medical Interview Preparation.
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A medical career needs plenty of planning. If you are an aspiring doctor, you will be willing to seek the right kind of information and advice about what such a career entails. Here is a spectrum of resources useful for the budding medical practitioner.
Planning Your Medical Career: A Practical Guide (a pdf from the Foundation Programme of the NHS)
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As an aspiring doctor, you are required to prepare for one test or major exam after another. To help you make sure you are well-prepared to face the test and complete it brilliantly, here is a listing of extremely useful sources for you to find relevant revision material.
1. MedRevise – Free medical revision for student doctors, that is neither too elaborate nor too brief. The site claims to be a ‘medicine revision wiki’.
2. Free revision notes for medical students a resource run by medical students for medical students.
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Here are several more resources for medical practitioners online.
Teale Fenning Medical Education offers several courses for you to translate your medical knowledge and experience into points by focusing on the right technique
and approach to tackle the MRCOG exams. The Teale Fenning Medical Education MRCOG courses boast of a unique style that helps candidates pass the Written and oral part of the Part II MRCOG exam.
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Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) is a programme of the NHS, UK started with the aim of bringing about positive change in the quality of care given to patients, by working on the root of the system, that is by reforming and improving postgraduate medical education and training.
These are the MMC principles for recruitment and training for medical professionals, as outlined in Modernising Medical Careers.
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Medical career aspirants whether students or specialists who seek career improvement, can probably get the best career advice from professionals who have been there, done that.
Thankfully there are a number of sources for you to get the right kind of career advice, even by email. Check out the following resources for seeking career guidance. Continue reading →
Remember this saying attributed to Erica Jong – “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t”?
How important is career planning? See these 10 tips offered by medicalforum.com, and use this career audit questionnaire.
- the time you spend on planning gets repaid multifold – in results
- absence of career planning is the usual cause of many career dilemmas
- you need to plan career even when your career is well on track
- in times of crisis or quick decision needs – you need to know crisis management
- good career planning means you equip yourself to take the right decisions in the future
- the skill you need to improve for career planning will differ from your neighbour’s
- lack of a single important skill in career planning can hold back career progress
- your own career success definition is key to achieving success on your terms
- it’s futile to blame anyone or anything for your career situation
- you don’t need extra time for career planning – you need to simply divert ‘worry-time’, and ‘blame-time’
As part of your professional improvement quest in the medical field, you will do well to look for newer ways to advance your medical career. One of the most important ways is to participate in seminars also while taking online courses.
Several online course providers also enable what is called blended learning. They have packaged customized educational programs in the medical field, which includes both seminars and online courses.
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The UK’s Medical Research Council provides a few fellowships for deserving applicants.
One of them is the Career Development Award. Post-doctoral medical researchers interested in becoming an independent investigator can receive financial support for a period of as much as five years. In fact the MRC urges awardees to make full use of the five years’ financial assistance.
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