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Career skills for doctors / Charalambos Panayiotou Charalambous.
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- Author/Creator:
- Charalambous, Charalambos Panayiotou, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Vocational guidance.
- Physicians.
- Performance.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer, [2015]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- The transition from medical school to being a practicing junior doctor is challenging. It requires knowledge and clinical skills but also the ability to efficiently function in the workplace. At the same time postgraduate professional development in gaining clinical experience, passing postgraduate exams, under-taking research or audit, and publishing become essential for career progression. One soon realizes that being a doctor is not just a profession but a way of life. This book presents some well-known ℓ́ℓpearlsℓ́ℓ as how to improve your day to day workplace performance, be efficiently productive, be an inherent part of the team, how to shine and impress. Advice is also given as how to prepare for postgraduate exams, develop essential technical skills, apply for the next post, successfully participate in research and audit, publish, manage, lead, teach, and train. This generic guidance can be of use for those aspiring to become a generalist or subspecialty doctor and can be of value in whichever part of the world you end up practicing in.
- Contents:
- Part I Workplace
- Be time efficient
- Become part of the team
- Let known what you do
- Punctuality
- Stick to a system
- Give leading answers
- Respect seniors
- Respect each attachment
- Rights but also obligations
- It?s ok to say you don?t know
- When in doubt ask
- First impressions matter
- Part II Developing Technical skills
- Make it easy
- Learn from the best
- Practice makes better
- Have a plan B
- Part III Passing postgraduate Exams
- Passing written exams.- Passing clinical exams
- How to prepare
- When to sit them
- Part IV Research
- When to undertake research
- How to choose a research supervisor
- What project?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 19, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9783319134796
- 3319134795
- 3319134787
- 9783319134789
- OCLC:
- 900157978
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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