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Making Sense of the Medical Career Pathway

Making Sense of the Medical Career Pathway. Sally Blake Careers Development Adviser Wales Deanery. Is a career what you do or the way that you do it?. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: definition of “career”

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Making Sense of the Medical Career Pathway

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  1. Making Sense of the Medical Career Pathway Sally Blake Careers Development Adviser Wales Deanery

  2. Is a career what you do or the way that you do it? Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: definition of “career” • Noun: the job or series of jobs that you do during your working life, especially if you continue to get better jobs and earn more money • Verb: to move fast and uncontrollably

  3. Why do we need to plan careers? • You live with your choices • Earlier decisions or positioning now needed • Everyone needs to be prepared for uncertainty, compromise and change (in any career) • NHS workforce needs drive opportunity, not personal dreams • Knowing what the career system is that you are entering will optimise your opportunities

  4. What do we know? • What is an uncoupled specialty? • What is an FTSTA? • What is the difference between a LAT and a LAS? • What does CCT stand for? • A doctor in a career grade post cannot become a consultant – true or false?

  5. The Simple Story • Go to medical school • Become a junior doctor • Choose and train in a specialty • Become a consultant

  6. The real story

  7. The truth is… • There are lots of pathways and options (60+) • Some medical students go on to pursue other careers • Wanting to be a certain type of doctor doesn’t guarantee that there will be a job • Some doctors change their minds and retrain in other medical pathways • Not all doctors become consultants or GP principals

  8. Things that can change the plan • Health / disability • Life events and changing work-life balance needs (e.g. parenting, carers) • Dual careers – whose turn is it? • Training / career not progressing • Wrong speciality choice • Right thing, wrong place • Wrong thing altogether!

  9. www.cardiff.ac.uk/walesdeanery/careers

  10. “Medical Careers Map for Wales”

  11. So what do I need to know? • Full range of options out there • Qualifications, skills and competencies required • Pathways and progression • How competitive/realistic each option is • Future workforce predictions • Must be up to date – things change!

  12. Useful sources of information General resources: • www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk : national career support resource, includes specialty information with workforce projections • www.mmc.nhs.uk : look at person specifications and careers sections • www.nhscareers.nhs.uk : for outlines of specialities, pay • careerfocus.bmj.com/ : details of UK and other job vacancies, career advice, FAQ • www.gprecruitment.org.uk/ for GP training information Careers in Wales • www.medicalcareerswales.com : for info on Foundation, GP and Specialty training in Wales and Local Health Boards • www.walesdeanery.org : See “Specialties” tab for training and jobs • www.doctorstrainingwales.tv : for video clips on specialties

  13. Myths about Wales • You have to speak Welsh to live/work there • It is “over the water” therefore remote and inaccessible • Teaching hospitals will be in isolated, mountainous places

  14. A guide to all the Welsh you’d need • Bore da • Prynhawn da • Nos da • Diolch • Un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump, zzzzz………. • Nice = “lush” • Nasty = “minging”

  15. 4 steps to any good career plan • Know yourself, what matters to you, what interests you • Explore all the options • Make rigorous and well-informed decisions and have a Plan B • Develop the skills of being a good applicant

  16. Questions? (now or later) Deanery Careers Team pgmedicalcareers@cardiff.ac.uk

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