Developing Career Support Skills; Development options

GMC standards, from 2011, require all Educational Supervisors to demonstrate the skills required to provide career support and manage discussions with trainees.

The Deanery can run two-hour workshop entitled “Supporting Doctors with their Careers” which can be a standalone event or part of a broader Educational Supervisors Induction/development programme. It carries 2 CPD points from the RCP. Download the document below to view the session outline and contact PG Medical Careers for further information on how to organise a session:

• Supporting Doctors With Their Careers [31.0 Kb]

In addition, the Deanery E-learning portal, PLATO, hosts a Careers e-learning module as part of the suite of sessions within the Tools for Trainers programme. A certificate is provided on completion.

Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) Deanery and the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine of Brighton and Sussex Medical School run a Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Managing Medical Careers commencing each January. It comprises short study blocks and virtual learning.

The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) run a range of training and skills development events in different aspects of careers guidance for graduates and postgraduates. Members can also join a national link to the Medical Careers Advisers Network (MCAN).

Research and Conference Reports

Download useful research and conference debriefs into different aspects of medical careers. Also recent careers team presentations for you to use, adapt or share. As we find more research or attend events, we will add further items here:

Gen Up Report

A research study into Generation Theory and its implications for the four generation currently in the workforce

Planned Happenstance: Constructing Unexpected Career Opportunities - Mitchell Levin Krumboltz

An explanation of a contemporary approach to career planning which suggests that managed opportuism is a more relevant approach to career management in a changing world of work, than attempting to form and manage a structured career plan.

• Vocational Theory - Planned Happenstance: Constructing Unexpected Career Opportunities [909.0 Kb]

Books

“The Roads to Success; a practical approach to career planning for medical students, foundation trainees (and their supervisors)”. Elton, C and Reid J, Scribe Publications 2006 [Available from the KSS Deanery career support]

Guiding Doctors in Managing Their Careers: A Toolkit for Tutors, Trainers, Mentors and Appraisers (Paperback):by Ruth Chambers(Author), Kay Mohanna(Author), Andrew Thornett(Author), Steve Field(Author) Radcliffe Publishing 2006

Careers Guidance in Context by Bill Gothard, Melvyn Ruff, and Marcus Offer (Author) Sage Publishing

Rethinking Careers Education and Guidance by A.G. Watts, Taylor and Francis Routledge Publishing

• Copies of all the above are held in Postgraduate Centre Libraries.