Professional Support Unit

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Professional Support Unit
Wales The Smart Choice Medical Training/Careers
in Wales
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Professional Support Unit

• Specialty Professional Support Leads
• Professional Support Policy
• Faculty Development
• Postgraduate Centres
• Specialty Specific
• Trainers / Trainees
• E-learning Modules (Plato)
• Ready access to advice

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PSU Referrals

• Total Cases 2008 - 2012 578
• Total Closed Cases 419
• PSU Active Cases 159 (gt5)
• Current ISP Referrals 52
• Positive Outcomes 90
• Training number removed 31

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Referrals by Year and Gender
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Most Referred Specialties - Total
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Most Referred Specialties - Current
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What do we find?
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Why?

• Workload
• Lack sleep
• Poor diet
• Poor fitness
• Exposure illness/suffering
• Patients demanding
• Scrutiny

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Personal

• Perfectionist
• Need control
• Need to please
• Stoic
• Dedicated
• Self doubt
• Caretaker
• Emotionally remote

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Social

• Strained relationships
• Financial debt
• Personal interests
• Social pressure
• Misuse of substances

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Referral to PSU

• Not punitive
• Supportive
• Confidential
• Impartial advice
• Challenging

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Referrals

• Self referral
• Referral from Supervisor / College tutor
• Referral following negative ARCP
• Referral following GMC referral
• Copied to referrer
• Copied to Professional Support Lead

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PSU Support

• General confidential advice trainees/trainers
• Repeated exam failure
• Help with educational plan
• Disability Adjustments
• Occupational Health Referral
• Careers
• LTFT
• Referral to ISP

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Individual Support Programme

• Cardiff University
• Referral by Professional Support Unit
• Confidential
• Assessment
• Personality
• Psychological assessment
• Communication
• Remediation

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Warning!

• Cautions any convictions must be disclosed
• on any application form
• to any new employer i.e. new rotation
• Danger of internet social networks!

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Questions?

• Professional Support Unit
• Dr Sally Davies, Sub Dean, Professional Support
• Leona Walsh, PSU Manager, Support
• Dr Melanie Jones, Associate Dean, Careers LTFT
• Sally Blake, PSU Manager, Careers
• professionalsupport_at_cf.ac.uk
• 029 2068 7811/17/85
• http//www.cardiff.ac.uk/pgmde/