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National Medical Careers Website:

www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk

Jason YarrowSenior Careers AdviserKSS Deaneryjyarrow@kssdeanery.ac.uk

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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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Any Questions?