Medical Careers National Medical Careers Website www medicalcareers

Medical Careers National Medical Careers Website: www. medicalcareers. nhs. uk Jason Yarrow Senior Careers Adviser KSS Deanery jyarrow@kssdeanery. ac. uk

Medical Careers Overview § Web-based resources for medical careers § www. medicalcareers. nhs. uk – Features § Career Planning model § Future Developments § How you can get involved

Medical Careers and web based resources § Telephone survey of 3000 UK graduate doctors. § 73% used web based resources § 50% received advice while at Medical School Survey 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 useful 2006 Co-hort study of medical graduates: 3 rd report. June 2009

Medical Careers Medical web based resources – an overview Various websites with careers information embedded in them: § Medical Schools § Deaneries § NHS § MMC § NHS Careers § § § Royal Colleges UKFPO Prospects BMJ Careers BMA

Medical Careers Medical School – Queen Mary, Uo. L

Medical Careers Deaneries - KSS

Medical Careers NHS : MMC and NHS Careers

Medical Careers Royal Colleges: Royal College of Pathologists

Medical Careers UK Foundation Programme Office

Medical Careers Prospects. ac. uk

Medical Careers BMA/ BMJ Careers

Medical Careers www. medicalcareers. nhs. uk

Medical Careers 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”

Medical Careers www. medicalcareers. nhs. uk • 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

Medical Careers NHS Medical Careers Webiste: www. medicalcareers. nhs. uk The website follows the framework pictured below to help you to make an informed career decision:

Medical Careers • 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 Sci 59 and your MBTI results

Medical Careers Self Assessment

Medical Careers • 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

Medical Careers Career Exploration

Medical Careers • 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 decisionmaking matrix

Medical Careers Decision making

Medical Careers Guidance on: § § § writing applications forms preparing your CV interviews assessment centres portfolios

Medical Careers Plan Implementation

Medical Careers How the website will develop in the future Ideas being developed include…

Medical Careers 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

Medical Careers 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

Medical Careers Any Questions?