ASME Conference:
A Career Service for Doctors in Training (2nd 2007 Conference)

Thursday 21 June 2007 - RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London (Click here for location map)
Conference supported by NHS MMC

• Programme
• Parallel Sessions Timetable (39Kb PDF)
• Abstracts Book  (176Kb PDF)
• Report

Papers

• Sci59 Online - Dr Rodney Gale (644Kb PDF)
• NHS Employers Careers Services for Doctors - Foluke Ajayi  (507Kb PDF)
• The Roads to Success -  (166Kb PDF)
• How do we deliver? - Ian Barton, Sonia Hutton-Taylor and Cathy Plumley  (123Kb PDF)
• Development of a Postgraduate Certificate in Managing Medical Careers -  Joan Reid and Dr Caroline Elton (35Kb PDF)
• Strategic Careers Update - Professor Zoe-Jane Playdon (54Kb PDF)
• How medical students identify potential careers – sources of information and role models - Melanie Jones (151Kb PDF)
• Specialist Career Planning Tools: A cautionary tale - Dr Helen Goodyear (151Kb PDF)
• Helping medical students to get the career advice, information and guidance they want - Dr Elizabeth Cottrell (808Kb PDF)

Photographs

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Foluke Ajayii	Ian Barton & Rodney Gayle	Sonia Hutton-Taylor

Background

Career advice for medical students and doctors in training has been rather slow to develop, but with the advent of the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) initiative, all new doctors in training will make an application for specialty training in the second year of their foundation programme. This means that a systematic and comprehensive career service should be available to entrants to foundation programmes, and linked to planned initiatives in medical school.

We know that young peoples' ideas about medicine largely stem from popular culture, for example on TV and film. For many students career choice is almost a lottery influenced by a placement or a charismatic senior, and often varies wildly in the first few years after qualification.

MMC has provided funds to set up a career advice service in each deanery and this conference is an opportunity to share strategies and plan their future development. In addition it will allow networking between undergraduate and postgraduate providers, and facilitate synergy between their programmes.

The conference will:

• outline deanery services for career decision
• provide a showcase for good practice
• facilitate linkage between undergraduate and postgraduate provision
• promote the formation of a future development strategy

Who should come?

Deanery career services leads Foundation Programme Directors Medical School career service leads Anyone interested and involved in a medical career service

Format

A mixture of short overviews, presentations and discussion, to share good practice. All participants will receive a summary of current initiatives beforehand, and a synopsis of any recommendations after the conference.

All queries should be directed to:-

Jennifer Bowser
ASME, 12 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JE.
Telephone: 0131 225 9111 Fax: 0131 225 9444
Email: jenniferb@asme.org.uk