National Medical Careers Website: www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk

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National Medical Careers Website
www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk

• Jason Yarrow
• Senior Careers Adviser
• KSS Deanery
• jyarrow_at_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 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 3rd
  report. June 2009

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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

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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.n
hs.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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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

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NHS Medical Careers Webiste www.medicalcareers.n
hs.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 future
Ideas 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?