Medical Schools

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Medical Schools Career Planning

• Professor Jenny Higham
• Head of Undergraduate Medicine- Imperial College,
  London

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Objectives

• Why?
• How?
• Best practice in UK
• Our current model

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Why?

• Fear/Uncertainty
• Highly motivated students
• MMC/Tooke Enquiry
• Lack confidence
• Competition
• Realistic expectations
• Plan B

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Other considerations....

• Never been right
• Negative factors often influence
• Traditional advice?
• Feeling of helplessness

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What are medical students chasing?

• Elective
• Academic Foundation Programme
• Foundation School
• The future
• Work/life balance?

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Who is looking at careers?

• UK Medical Careers Research Group (Oxford)
• Policy Studies Institute
• Professor Christopher McManus
• BMA Cohort Studies
• NICEC

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The Medical School Journey
F1/2 Beyond
School
Year 1/2
Year 3
BSc
Elective
Year 5/6
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Career Planning Toolkit

• Curriculum exposure
• Doctors as advisors
• Student body
• Portfolio
• Publications/Websites
• The Royal Colleges

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Foundation Programme

• Process anxiety provoking
• Need broader view
• Good information
• Academic credentials take time
• Research/Audit lecture- Year 1/2
• Foundation Saturday- Year 4/5

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Careers model at other UK Medical Schools

• Career talks- Year 1/2
• Career specific seminars

• 5 year integrated advice
• Early years- Reflective work
• Later- Elective Clinical

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Things that have gone well

• Annual Careers Fair
• Inspirational lectures
• Women in Medicine

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Other information sources

• Community Medicine Evening
• Annual Electives Evening
• Portfolio advice

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What the students say.
The talk gave me an insight into medicine
outside of the hospital, which I had never really
considered previously. 2nd Year I
thought the talk today was really useful! It gave
me a much better idea what the available options
were- also in a "real life" kind of way, rather
than just looking at a website 5th Year
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Conclusions

• Ignore?
• Student demand
• Anxiety high
• Enjoyable
• Make Plan B, Plan A