Training Doctors
December 13th 2010 09:29
"Writtent by NHS Consultants." So proclaims the Oxford Medical site, a specialist site that offers doctors and other medical practitioners a variety of ways in which to further their skills. Pity, in that case, that the first thing that strikes a proof-reading eye like mine is an additional 't' on the end of 'Written'.
That quibble aside, this looks like a great place to start if you're a doctor (I'm not) and you want to improve various skills. You could try out the Teach the Teacher course, which is aimed at giving doctors ways to improve their teaching skills. In two days, the course offers a wide variety of techniques, including how to deal with difficult students (!)
There's the Consultant Interview Course. This is aimed at doctors who are applying for consultancy positions, and in their programme, Oxford Medical claim that "95% of doctors who attend this course receive an offer of appointment to a consultant position within two attempts." That's a high rate of success!
Oxford Medical say that medical training candidates exit their courses fully clinically trained but then tend to struggle on many non-clinical aspects of the Consultant interview process. Even if you weren't to take their course, you'd find a good deal of helpful information on the appropriate page on their site. (Doing the course sounds like it would be most helpful however!)
The one-day Medical Management Course focuses on helping doctors to lead teams, and manage staff.
All this and more on the site. From my experience, there are probably plenty of doctors who can do with additional training of this sort. Admittedly doctors have come a long way since the days when they were trained to act as though they were never wrong, or when they treated patients as less-than-human, or when they put the fear of God into their students (who in turn did the same thing when they got the chance). Thank goodness, for the most part, those days are over. Nevertheless, extra training never goes amiss, and it looks as though Oxford Medical are well set up to provide it.
[I've checked for typing errors in this post, but now that I've opened with a comment about someone else's proof-reading, no doubt there's something I've missed. I'll be waiting to hear!]
That quibble aside, this looks like a great place to start if you're a doctor (I'm not) and you want to improve various skills. You could try out the Teach the Teacher course, which is aimed at giving doctors ways to improve their teaching skills. In two days, the course offers a wide variety of techniques, including how to deal with difficult students (!)
There's the Consultant Interview Course. This is aimed at doctors who are applying for consultancy positions, and in their programme, Oxford Medical claim that "95% of doctors who attend this course receive an offer of appointment to a consultant position within two attempts." That's a high rate of success!
Oxford Medical say that medical training candidates exit their courses fully clinically trained but then tend to struggle on many non-clinical aspects of the Consultant interview process. Even if you weren't to take their course, you'd find a good deal of helpful information on the appropriate page on their site. (Doing the course sounds like it would be most helpful however!)
The one-day Medical Management Course focuses on helping doctors to lead teams, and manage staff.
All this and more on the site. From my experience, there are probably plenty of doctors who can do with additional training of this sort. Admittedly doctors have come a long way since the days when they were trained to act as though they were never wrong, or when they treated patients as less-than-human, or when they put the fear of God into their students (who in turn did the same thing when they got the chance). Thank goodness, for the most part, those days are over. Nevertheless, extra training never goes amiss, and it looks as though Oxford Medical are well set up to provide it.
[I've checked for typing errors in this post, but now that I've opened with a comment about someone else's proof-reading, no doubt there's something I've missed. I'll be waiting to hear!]
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