| Description |
1 online resource illustrations |
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Success in medicine |
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Success in medicine.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Using this book -- Key to the summaries -- Medical careers terminology -- Contributors -- 1 Career routes-the 'usual' route -- Career overview -- Foundation programme -- Specialty training -- Membership exams -- Consultant -- General practitioner -- 2 Career routes-the 'alternative' routes -- Alternative routes -- Specialty and associate specialist doctors -- Alternatives to a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) ...............................................21 |
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Switching career paths -- Academic career -- Armed forces career -- 'Off the beaten path' and portfolio careers -- Overseas career -- Leaving clinical medicine -- 3 Specialty overviews -- Introduction -- Acute care common stem (ACCS) -- Anaesthetics -- General practice -- Medical specialties -- Obstetrics and gynaecology -- Paediatrics -- Pathology -- Psychiatry -- Public health -- Radiology -- Surgical specialties -- Further surgical specialties -- 4 Choosing careers and getting jobs -- Choosing a career -- Finding jobs -- Surviving the recruitment system -- Interviews and selection centres |
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What happens next? -- Competition for CT1/ ST1 applications -- Competition for ST3/ ST4 applications -- Staying competitive -- Curriculum vitae -- Portfolios and ePortfolios -- Applying for academic training -- Applying from overseas -- 5 Training and working in medical careers -- Postgraduate training: Modernising Medical Careers -- Postgraduate training: Shape of Training -- Overseeing education -- Less-than-full-time training -- Doctors' pay -- Taking time out -- Working abroad -- Discrimination -- Women in medicine -- Myths debunked -- 6 Career chapters -- Academic medicine |
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Academic surgery -- Acute internal medicine -- Allergy -- Anaesthetics -- Armed Forces: Army -- Armed Forces: Royal Air Force Medical Officer -- Armed Forces: Royal Navy Medical Officer -- Audiovestibular medicine -- Aviation and space medicine -- Bariatric and metabolic surgery -- Cardiology -- Cardiothoracic surgery -- Chemical pathology -- Clinical genetics -- Clinical neurophysiology -- Clinical oncology -- Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics -- Dermatology -- Diving and hyperbaric medicine -- Ear, nose, and throat (ENT or otolaryngology) -- Elderly medicine -- Emergency medicine |
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Emergency medicine: paediatric -- Emergency medicine: pre- hospital emergency medicine -- Endocrinology and diabetes -- Expedition medicine -- Fertility medicine -- Forensic medicine -- Forensic pathology -- Gastroenterology -- General practice -- General practice: academic -- General practice in rural settings -- General practice in secure environments -- General practice: private practice -- GP with extended roles -- General surgery -- Genitourinary medicine -- Gynaecological oncology -- Haematology -- Hand surgery -- Histopathology -- Immunology -- Infectious diseases |
| Summary |
A medical degree opens many doors, but how do you decide which is the right one to go through? This book provides the latest information on training and career progression, as well as summaries of over 100 different careers open to medical graduates |
| Notes |
Previous edition: 2009 |
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Includes index |
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Description based on online resource; title from resource web page (Oxford Medicine Online, viewed on March 30, 2022) |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Specialties and specialists -- Vocational guidance
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Medicine -- Vocational guidance.
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Surgery.
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Vocational guidance.
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Medical education.
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General Surgery
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Career Choice
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Education, Medical
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Medicine
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surgery (health care function)
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vocational guidance.
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Medical education
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Medicine -- Specialties and specialists -- Vocational guidance
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Medicine -- Vocational guidance
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Surgery
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Vocational guidance
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Spurr, Lydia editor
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Harris, Jessica editor
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Warwick, Geoffrey editor
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| ISBN |
9780191953019 |
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0191953016 |
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9780191084904 |
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0191084905 |
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9780191084898 |
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0191084891 |
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