Careers Support and Advice

General advice

For general advice, the Medical Careers Website www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk probably has the best quality and most accurate information generally

The website contains career planning tools to help with career decision making and includes sections on self assessment, career exploration, decision making and implementation, CV writing, application forms and portfolios. There is also a comprehensive list of over 60 specialties with detailed information on the various options. It is well worth looking at.

University Careers Office

Useful introductory information on

http://www.bris.ac.uk/careers/careersin/medicine.asp

Future planning

Thinking about what you might want to do – how to go about it? For forward planning it is worth looking at the

“Quick Guide to recruitment to medical specialty training in England in 2010”

also available from the Modernising Medical Careers website, http://www.mmc.nhs.uk/

Specific advice for individual careers

Specific advice contacts:

Academic careers and Academic F1 applications: Dr Alastair Wilkins

General careers advice in the programme: Dr Peter Fletcher, Dr Tim Lovell

University Careers Office member with remit for Medicine: Mrs. Keren Gwinnell

Draft plan for specific advice by year

Detailed plan will be available and inserted soon

Year	Timeframe	Level of Commitment
1	Spring term	Introductory talks about the application process for jobs in 5th year (there is an application process) HBoM exam marks contribute to their rankings for the UKFPO applications in Year 5
2	Within intercalation and ERASMUS information	Discussion of the ‘career’ benefits of ERASMUS and intercalation: intercalation and academic F2 programmes
3	Year beginning and October/November central teaching day	The UKFPO application process (quartiles, white-box questions) Academic programmes
4	Year beginning and in between Units 2 and 3	Academic programmes (how to apply, programme requirements) UKFPO applications (the need to identify referees and individuals to read applications) Careers session
5	Year beginning and in the PPP course	Life as a junior doctor