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Education DepartmentMedical careers – latest research and implications for GP educators and appraisers
Dr Joan Reid
Education/Head of Careers
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Overview
• Factors influencing specialty choice and implications – Oxford Medical Careers Group
• Some case studies• Medical careers - metaphors • Career Odyssey• HEKSS careers team – resources available to
you• Questions
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Factors that influence specialty choice
• Interest in the specialty• Aptitude• Temperament and personality• Preferred styles of working• Opportunities• LuckSource: Goldacre et al 2012
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Factors influencing the decision to reject a speciality
• Work-life balance – most common factor in acute hospital specialties and for women
• Job content and previous experience – general practice, psychiatry and pathology most likely to be rejected although they are least likely to be rejected because of work-life balance
• Other reasons - training quality and content, competition (difficult examinations and competition for posts), stress levels and working conditions
• However, there is “considerable diversity between doctors in their reasons for finding specialities attractive or unattractive.”
Source: Goldacre et al 2012
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What might this mean for medical education?
• Hours of work and intensity of working hours – how might these dissuade some doctors from considering some specialties as career choices?
• Job content – are doctors rejecting specialties on the basis of accurate information about what each specialty entails?
• Diversity of medical practice – underlines the importance of recruitment strategies to medical school that include diversity of students’ interests, aptitudes, temperament and personality.
• Further work – could investigate how well informed doctors are about their future choice of specialty when they make their first choice (Goldacre et al 2012)
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Case studies
Four case studies - in pairs, discuss one of the case studies:• How might you approach a career interview with this
doctor?• What are the main issues presented here?• How might you move forward with this doctor?• What might be some areas which you will need to work
through with this doctor?• What else might need to happen for this doctor?
Articles you might find interesting: Twenge 2009 and GenUp report 2008
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Medical careers – metaphors
Positions and journeys• Battles and races• Crossroads• Journey• Mapping the territory• A medical career was
like “climbing up Mount Everest without a guide or having trained or knowing the route, or even a map”
About medical careers• Doctor as hero• Medical bubble• Travelator in an
airport (which you can’t get off)
• Gordian knot – understanding the tangled sub-plots
• Stately homeSource: Reid, 2012
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The Career Odyssey
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Career decision making in medicine
Stage 3 Decision:
next career choice
Stage 2 Realisation: better range of
expertise may include tasters
Stage 1 Undifferentiated: Usually
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Based on The career decision phase pyramid (Collins, 2012) and reprinted with permission
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HEKSS career team supports postgraduate doctors
• ROADS to success – book, ebook and eworkbook• One to one drop in sessions in trusts• Individual referrals to the career team• Work and wellbeing – trainee support card• Faculty development – career support workshops and
MA Managing Medical Careers• NHS medical careers website –
www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk • Foundation doctors: F1/F2 workshops in trusts, career
planning card for F1s, tasters in F1 and specialty champions (initiative with STFS)
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Any questions?
Useful links:
HEKSS/Careers http://kssdeanery.org/education/about-careers/what-we-can-do-you
Career support workshops
http://kssdeanery.org/course/careers-support-training
PG Cert Leading and Developing Healthcare Careers and MA/Dip Managing Medical Careers
http://kssdeanery.org/course/ma-managing-medical-careers
NHS Medical Careers website
http://www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk/
Careers team
Joan Reid
Lisa Stone
Margaret Holbrough
Kathleen Sullivan
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References
• Browning, G. & Worman, D. 2008. Gen Up - how the four generations work. London: CIPD.
• Collins, J. 2012. A Participant Evaluation of Foundation Year 2 Taster Modules. MA Managing Medical Careers, University of Brighton.
• Goldacre, M. J., Goldacre, R. & Lambert, T. W. 2012. Doctors who considered but did not pursue specific clinical specialties as careers: questionnaire surveys. JRSM, 105, 166-176.
• Reid, J. 2012. Medical Careers and Coaching - an Exploratory Study. International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, Special issue No. 6, 146-165.
• Twenge, J. M. 2009. Generational changes and their impact in the classroom: teaching Generation Me. Medical Education, 43, 398-405.