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As a registered delegate you will be given the opportunity to participate in a range of seminars. Courses are designed to give you some of the building blocks of career management. They are not intended to provide one-to-one advice, but will help you develop your career skills and locate further sources of help.
We offered the following seminars at the 2009 BMJ Careers Fair.
Getting the most out of the Foundation Programme
This session, open to all Careers Fair visitors, gives you essential up to date information about applying for the Foundation programme and getting the most from it.
MMC Update
This session, open to all Careers Fair visitors, brings you right up to date with the specialty training application process and what it means for you.
Simulation and technology - enhanced learning initiative
This session will explore how STeLI is raising the standards for postgraduate training in London. By harnessing innovative educational techniques such as simulation and using the power of technology to improve training, the London Deanery is well placed to overcome the challenges posed by the EWTD. By focusing on delivering high quality training London has made an unparalleled commitment to delivering 'Excellence in Education' and supporting the development of a World Class workforce.
Polishing up your interview skills
This session aims to help you understand what interview panels are looking for and how best to present yourself as the person for the job. It stresses the importance of preparation, body language and a positive attitude.
CVs and application forms
Your CV should be long enough to explain your achievements and short enough to ensure it is read properly. This session offers plenty of tips and sound advice on how to improve your CV and to complete application forms so that they work for you and capture every aspect of you experience and achievements in your career to date.
Preparing for a Consultant post
This session sets out to explain what particular skills are needed to move successfully into a consultant post; and how you should set about achieving this career goal.
What if it's not for me? Ten principles of career change
You may have come to the conclusion that you wish to pursue a career outside of medicine, but just don't know where to start. Hear from someone who successfully made the leap, about practical steps everyone can take towards their dream career.
Maintaining a portfolio
This seminar will examine the benefits and pitfalls of portfolio use in supporting medical careers.
Preparing for appraisal
This workshop explores how doctors can effectively prepare for and engage in appraisal and revalidation. This promises to be a useful process for individual doctors and the wider NHS. But how can doctors ensure they use their time most effectively and get the most out of this important element of professional development?
Getting published - how to improve your chances
This session gives you the chance to improve your writing style, avoiding common pitfalls and improving the power of your writing. It also provides hints on getting your paper published and building a career as an author.
Getting the most from supervision
Good supervision is about looking after you, not looking over your shoulder. This workshop will help any doctor at any career stage think about the best ways of getting support, stimulation and challenge from colleagues - of keeping their minds and souls alive.
A career in General Practice
This workshop is aimed at those who are interested in developing a career in general practice. It will explore the following areas: what a career in general practice entails - the advantages and drawbacks, the training pathway and how to maximise your chances of succeeding in your application for a general practice specialty training programme.
Developing a portfolio career in general practice
This workshop is aimed at those wanting to combine a career in general practice with other working roles. You will be involved in a discussion that will highlight the unique opportunities that they can gain, or have gained, from portfolio working, identify common professional challenges and tensions that are typical of this role and share strategies that result in developing successful portfolio careers.
Academic options in general practice
If you are interested in combining academic medicine with general practice, this session will give you an insight into the career opportunities and options that are available, together with the pros and cons of doing so.
Recruitment 2010 in London
The health services in London have always faced workforce challenges more complex than the rest of the UK. Doctors planning to develop their careers in the capital need to understand this context and the complexities of planning the medical workforce.
Getting the most out of general practice
Life as a GP can be amazingly varied, with many opportunities. Meet Steve Mowle who combines being an inner city GP with teaching and training as well as national and international activities within the RCGP. Previously Steve has also worked in Australia and also as a P+O Ship's Doctor.
How to take a career break and keep your career safe
This workshop is aimed in the main at GPs or potential GPs who need to work to work flexibly or need to take a career break. It will look at what support mechanisms are in place to facilitate this, particularly in the current job market.
Mastering the art of time management
Do you need to get organised and gain more control over priorities, people and paperwork? This session focuses on practical strategies for prioritising tasks, defeating procrastination and delegating effectively so that you can achieve more in less time.
From middle grade to high quality: aspiring to excellence as an SASG
The workshop will cover the background to and current career structure of the Staff and Associate Specialist Grade.The SASG grade is now beginning to show a shift to a career that has positive advantages in its structure, with the added value of developing consultant-level competencies. Factual information will be interspersed with discussion and a group task.
Career planning in a changing world
In recent years there have been extensive changes in specialty training - not only in terms of how you apply for post-foundation jobs (eg the introduction of assessment centres and examinations in some specialties), but also year on year shifts in which specialties, and which regions are the most competitive. This seminar will look at how you can keep your career airborne, in a turbulent medical career environment.
Survive and thrive as a sessional GP
This workshop is to help new and sessional GPs to survive and stay safe in challenging times; it will cover clinical and non clinical career options. It will help you to consider how to maximise your potential and make a threat into an opportunity.
Core Medical Training and beyond
CMT can be a gateway to a wide range of medical specialties. The training is the first stage towards obtaining a CCT in a medical specialty and provides the opportunity to explore many career choices. This session explains how it works and how to get the most from it.
Doctors leading transformational change
In an age where innovation and generational changes have become leadership imperatives, this seminar will explore and examine new paradigms and suggest practical ways in which doctors at all levels can lead. An opportunity to experience paradigm shift in an instant in both a scientific and humorous way.
How to make an effective presentation
Presenting to an audience large or small comes naturally to few people, yet it is an essential skill if you want to influence your colleagues or your bosses or a prospective employer. This session offers you some professional tips.
Maxmising your chance at shortlisting and interview
This interactive seminar will demonstrate how to tailor your CV to different specialties and how specialty-skill targeted application form answers increase your shortlisting chances. The interview process will be outlined and the principles underpinning success will be reviewed and demonstrated. You should leave the seminar with a clear plan for success at specialty selection interview.
The value of mistakes in career development
This seminar will challenge the notion that anybody can have a 'mistake-free' career. Instead it will demonstrate that taking the wrong turn is an almost inevitable part of everyone's career trajectory, and the key tasks are how to minimize the impact of mistakes, and how to put one's career back on track.
Taking time out to work abroad
In today’s current economic climate there are often pressures to stay within the profession. The idea of this session is to review the benefits of taking time out to work abroad, the range and scope of opportunities out there for you as well as thinking about returning back into the workplace.
A career in sports medicine
Many doctors dream of being able to combine their medical skills with their enthusiasm for sport. In this session a doctor experienced in sports medicine explains what it is all about and the opportunities available with the Olympics just a few years away.
Careers beyond medicine
The aim of this session is to provide you with an insight into how to think about your skills and experiences in a new and fresh way. We will consider the range of employment opportunities and how you can sell yourself to an employer.
Opportunities in pharmaceutical medicine
This presentation provides an overview of the pharmaceutical industry covering the current perceptions of the industry and what it’s really like. It provides an overview of the roles available to the pharmaceutical physician, higher medical training, making the transition from NHS to pharma, FAQs including hours, salary and job security, where to find out more, and what organisations to approach.
Choosing the right specialty
Drawing both on the relevant research literature, and on the experience of having provided careers support to many medical students and junior doctors, this practical seminar will provide you with a simple framework for approaching the task of specialty choice.
Working in British Columbia, Canada "Dispelling the Myths"
Join us to find out the "how to's" of working in British Columbia, Canada. Learn how Health Match BC will guide you through British Columbia’s licensing and immigration procedures and support you in making a seamless transition.
A Career in New Zealand
New Zealand is a great place to pursue a complete new lifestyle. This workshop will provide up-to-date information on health opportunities in NZ and give a real insight into living in the most beautiful country in the world. Presented by New Zealanders, we will answer all your questions on careers, visas & residency, and living in New Zealand.
A parallel career as a doctor with the RAF Reserves
There are good opportunities for NHS clinicians to have a satisfying a
parallel career with the UKs reserve forces. This includes clinical work, leadership, adventurous training and deployed service overseas. The speaker, a busy NHS consultant with 14 years RAF reserve experience, will highlight these opportunities.
Web-based resources for planning a medical career. Challenges and
progress. The development of www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk
There are many web-based resources for planning a career. This workshop will look at the development of the National Medical Careers Website - www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk which is managed by KSS Deanery on behalf of the Department of Health. The workshop will give an overview of how the National Medical Careers website can help those interested in a medical
career plan their future in a structured way.
Med Recruit - Incredible Lifestyle AND Career; now you can have it all in Australia or New Zealand!
Revealed; how you can create an incredible lifestyle and career in both Australia and New Zealand. Dr Sam Hazledine will show you how you can create life on your terms 'Down Under' and you will also hear from a real UK doctor who made the move and loved it!
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador on Canada's East Coast welcomes IMGs by offering a "provisional license" to physicians whose training meets the requirements of our licensing college. We are fortunate to have attracted up to 40% of our practicing physicians from many parts of the world. Our provincial licensure, salaried employment and immigration sponsorship is a realistic option for direct entry into practice in Canada. This workshop promotes our wonderful province, the comfortable lifestyle and our attractive practice opportunities. The session outlines the steps of the relocation process we use to support the IMGs and their families who have already immigrated through our Newfoundland and Labrador recruitment package.
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