Resources

Planning your career during the Foundation Programme - Helpful Tips

This leaflet gives some helpful tips about what you should be doing throughout your Foundation years to plan your future career.

Promoting Excellence: GMC External Resource (Slides)

The GMC has prepared a set of slides to support the launch of the new standards which our education partners can use to introduce the new standards to trainers and others involved in educating and training medical students and doctors. It is recommend that these are looked at conjunction with the FAQs for full background details.

Rainy Brain Sunny Brain - Professor Elaine Fox

Rainy Brain Sunny Brain is the work of Professor Elaine Fox in Oxford, and has lots of relevant themes. Her website enables you to self-assess your optimism score and various other things www.rainybrainsunnybrain.com

Resilience Cartoon

A short video about resilience and managing stress in the healthcare workplace.

Skills for communicating with Patients

This book is vital for health service managers and clinicians, in both purchaser and provider organizations, in community and hospital settings. It helps the reader understand the principles and purposes of casemix and provides practical examples of using casemix groupings to manage services better. Its lessons are not just for acute services, but provide a way of understanding the complete spectrum of services required for a wide range of conditions, from individuals at risk to those with irreversible and progressive disease.

So you want to be a brain surgeon? (Success in Medicine)

Which doctors make the most money? Which doctors work the hardest? How do you become an expedition doctor? What is it like to be a brain surgeon? Will it affect your career if you take a break? If any of these questions are relevant to you then this could be the most important book you ever read. Whether you are wondering what career to choose or want to know how to follow a particular medical career, you'll find the answers inside.

Specialty Training

This website aims to support doctors and dentists in applying for specialty training posts in the NHS within the United Kingdom, and to provide information on changes to the recruitment and training process.

Find it at: http://specialtytraining.hee.nhs.uk/

Supervision of Less Than Full Time Trainees (LTFT)

HEE is committed to improving Junior Doctor’s working lives and championing flexible working more broadly. With work/life balance highlighted as a mounting concern to doctors in training, and the risk of “burnout” affecting recruitment and retention in some specialties the need for increased understanding and positive promotion of Less than Full Time Training is essential.

Support 4 Doctors

Support4Doctors provides access to a wide range of specialist advice and support for doctors and their families. There are also links to organisations that can provide further help.

Find it at: http://www.support4doctors.org/

Sven Hansen - Resilient Leadership

Sven Hansen originally trained a doctor and now runs management courses on resilience. He summarises the work of others, and has an interesting model of resilience which demonstrates how you can spiral up and down.