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National Medical Careers Website:
www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk
Jason YarrowSenior Careers AdviserKSS [email protected]
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Overview
Web-based resources for medical careers
www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk – Features
Career Planning model
Future Developments
How you can get involved
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Careers and web based resources
Telephone survey of 3000 UK graduate doctors. 73% used web based resources 50% received advice while at Medical SchoolSurvey of UK Graduate doctors: January 2006 – A research report
for GMC
10 year longitudinal study of doctors (435 surveyed) 95% of those that had received careers advice found
it was useful2006 Co-hort study of medical graduates: 3rd report. June 2009
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Medical web based resources – an overview
Various websites with careers information embedded inthem:
Medical Schools Deaneries NHS
MMC NHS Careers
Royal Colleges UKFPO Prospects BMJ Careers BMA
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Medical School – Queen Mary, UoL
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Deaneries - KSS
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NHS : MMC and NHS Careers
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Royal Colleges: Royal College of Pathologists
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UK Foundation Programme Office
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Prospects.ac.uk
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BMA/ BMJ Careers
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www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk
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NHS Medical Careers Website: www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk
Mission statement :
“By 2011, any medical student, doctor in training, or provider of career support who has a careers question relating to working as a doctor will go to this website first”
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• General Information
• Career Planning Tools
• Career Options
• Specialty Pages• Over 60 specialties• Overviews• Working Life• Personal Charactersitics• Postgraduate Pathway• Workforce Statistics• Links to Royal Colleges & Further Reading
• Tools and Resources
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NHS Medical Careers Webiste: www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk
The website follows the framework pictured below to help you to make an informed career decision:
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• has an interactive tools to help you with this stage. • Personal influences • Careers values • Personality type • Environmental Factors • Interests • Skills
• contains guidance on using your Sci59 and your MBTI results
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Self Assessment
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• Information/guidance on how to research your options
• A resources list for in depth research• Information on careers fairs and how to get the most
from them• Information on academic medicine as an option
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Career Exploration
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• Guidance on making good decisions• Advice on different approaches to making decisions• Some decision making tools
e.g. the SWOT analysis; Pros and cons analysis; the decision-making matrix
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Decision making
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Guidance on: writing applications forms preparing your CV interviews assessment centres portfolios
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Plan Implementation
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How the website will develop in the futureIdeas being developed include…
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More ideas are being developed:
• An ‘Ask the panel’ section, users can email questions into a panel – the answers to be shown on the website
• Videos – examples: Getting ready for specialty recruitment; A day in the life of a trainee GP
• Guest blogs - for example a week in the life of…• Regional features – e.g. working in Wales• A virtual hospital – to demonstrate how many doctors
there are of each specialty in a typical hospital
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Focus group
We are currently recruiting for a focus group for the NHS medical careers website. Please read the leaflets we have distributed if you are interested.
Many thanks for listening!
Thank you
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