BMA Career Course Options 2016

British Medical Association
bma.org.uk
Training solutions
from the BMA
2014/15 course options

Supporting doctors throughout their career 1
Introduction
Exciting new training opportunities for your workplace 2
The Team 3
Teaching sessions
Key to programme 4
Foundation Year 5
Core Training 6
GP Vocational Training Scheme 7
Higher Specialty Training 8
Staff and Associate Specialist 9-10
Consultant 11-12
General Practitioner 13-14
Meet the Medical Careers Consultants 15
Table of sessions 16-17
Get in touch
See how we can tailor in-house training for your team 18-19

An exciting portfolio of CPD
approved career training and
support services delivered
at a time and location
convenient to you.
Contents

British Medical Association Supporting doctors throughout their career2 3
From the BMA for 2014/15
Having delivered high-quality workshops for over seven years and
career talks in over 40 Trusts, we’ve taken your feedback on board
and the result is a wider range of teaching sessions and workshops.
Each one is specially designed to support and enhance the training
you provide and covers a range of topics including communications,
management, leadership, career development and more.
Why the BMA?
We understand the rapidly changing medical landscape and
the importance of training that evolves to suit the professional
development needs of doctors. With over 153,000 members and a
huge wealth of experience in providing help, support and guidance
to doctors, we can help share the burden by being a practical
careers development resource for you to call upon.
What makes us different?
We pride ourselves on being able to support doctors throughout
their professional journey. It can be difficult to know what training
provider to use and how to be sure that what is delivered is what
you need. We like to work with you to design programmes that
will add value as stand-alone sessions, as well as dovetail with the
curriculum programme.
All our training is backed up with unrivalled support through
online learning modules, the BMA Library, BMJ Learning, webinars
and more. Access to these extra resources provides useful pre-
training preparation for participants and important follow up that
complements the teaching session or workshop.
–– Time Management
–– Negotiating & Influencing
–– Management Essentials
–– Appraisal & Revalidation
–– Developing Leadership
–– Managing Teams
–– Hiring the Right People
–– Assertiveness in the
–– Workplace and more...
The team
We’re a team of experienced medical careers consultants who love
what we do. This comes across not only in the style of our delivery,
which is motivating and interactive, but also in the quality
of information on offer.
We have a blended learning approach to our work, so if a workshop
isn’t the right format, we can adapt it to create a webinar or
e-learning session to support your needs and specific training
requirements.
Get in touch
Look through the programme and if you would like us to explain any
of our courses in more detail, or discuss tailoring a session, please
contact us – we’re here to help.
Email: bmacareers@bma.org.uk
Phone: 0300 123 1233
Web: bma.org.uk/careers
Training solutions from the BMA
Exciting
new training
opportunities
for your
workplace
CPD approved
training delivered
direct to your
workplace
bmacareers@bma.org.uk 0300 123 1233 bma.org.uk/careers bmacareers@bma.org.uk 0300 123 1233 bma.org.uk/careers

British Medical Association Supporting doctors throughout their career4 5Training solutions from the BMA
Key to programme on following pages
Foundation Years
Page 5
Core Training
Page 6
GP Vocational Training Scheme
Page 7
Higher Specialty Training
Page 8
Staff and Associate Specialist
Pages 9 - 10
Consultant
Page 11 - 12
General Practitioner
Page 13 - 14
Career planning skills in your foundation
years (1 hour)
The transition from medical school to
foundation years training involves a key
career decision about what specialty to
pursue. This course helps FY1s and FY2s
think about how to structure their career
and assist with career planning
and decision-making.
Applying to specialty training –
recruitment and selection (1 hour)
This course focuses on the application
process for specialty training. It’s designed
to be as informative as possible and is
regularly reviewed and updated to reflect
any major changes in specialty recruitment.
Preparing for the assessment centre
for GP training (1.5 hours or half day)
This course focuses on the application
process for specialty training. It’s designed
to be as informative as possible and is
regularly reviewed and updated to reflect
any major changes in specialty recruitment.
Interview skills training for specialty post
(1.5 hours or half day)
Interviewing with confidence is an art form
and the preparation beforehand is crucial
to maximise a candidate’s chances of
success. Competition for specialty training is
increasing and more medical specialties are
adopting a structured, competency-based
approach to their recruitment, which this
session addresses.
Developing leadership skills as a
trainee (1 hour, 2 hours or half day)
Clinical leadership and management in
medicine are known to have a positive
impact on the patient experience. This
session covers the healthcare leadership
model, which has been designed to help
clinical staff plan, deliver and transform
healthcare services and has become an
integral part of a doctor’s role.
Beyond F2 (1 hour, 2 hours or half day)
A careers planning session especially
designed to fit into a teaching programme
after F2 doctors have completed their
applications. This session highlights non-
clinical skills and subjects such as leadership
and commercial awareness that all doctors
need to progress through their training,
whichever pathway they take.
Taking a year out (1-2 hours)
This course is designed to help doctors
plan their year out. A mix of regulations and
practical support, this session covers both
working abroad and other reasons for taking
time out, and focuses on how to ensure the
best possible return to training.
Teaching
sessions
We have developed this range of short and
in-depth careers training sessions, which
work well on their own, or as part of a larger
programme.
FY
CT
GP
VTS
ST3+
SAS
C
GP
FY Foundation Years

Developing leadership skills as a trainee
(1 hour, 2 hours or half day)
integral part of a doctor’s role.
CV review session (1-2 hours)
Constructing the right CV to get an interview
is both an art and a skill. This practical
interactive session will give doctors the
basic structure of a medical CV, look at how
to tailor a CV to meet a job specification
and give an insight into what short-listers
are thinking to help give attendees the best
chance of getting an interview for that job
they really want.
Interview skills training for sub-specialty
post (1.5 hours or half day)
Interviewing with confidence is an art form
and the preparation beforehand is crucial to
maximise a candidate’s chances of success.
Building on any previous training for
specialty interviews CTs may have had, this
session highlights the differences between
the processes and allows for practice of key
interview skills.
Presenting and influencing
(Full day)
Tackling the fundamentals of presenting,
this session will offer simple and effective
techniques to enable anyone to present
with impact. It will help participants manage
their nerves, get key messages across
persuasively, structure material
and engage audiences of various sizes.
Negotiating and influencing
(Half or full day)
Doctors have to negotiate and influence
on a daily basis whether with patients, their
families, their peers, senior management
or other non-clinical professionals.
Developing an understanding of the tools
and techniques involved in negotiating
effectively with others and how to apply
them in the workplace will be extremely
beneficial to specialist practice.
Assertiveness in the workplace
(Half day)
This course is designed to explore issues
around assertiveness. By the end of the
workshop, participants will feel more
confident in their ability to accommodate
others and understand how to ensure their
needs are heard and balanced against those
of their patients and wider services.
Core Training GP Vocational Training Scheme
integral part of a doctor’s role, as well
as looking at the environment in which
healthcare is commissioned and delivered.
How to choose your first GP role
The labour market for GPs is ever-changing
and ensuring newly qualified GPs choose the
right first job is important for good career
development. The session introduces current
GP labour market information, helps trainees
to identify what makes a good practice
for them and looks at demystifying job
advertisements to help first-time job hunters.
Interview skills for salaried GP and
partner roles (Half day and full day)
Applying for GP positions involves
particularly challenging interviews. This
essential workshop introduces key issues
that dominate these interviews and will help
identify appropriate evidence from previous
experience.
(Half or full day)
GPs have to negotiate and influence
on a daily basis whether with patients,
their families, their peers partners or
CCGs and other agencies. Developing an
understanding of the tools and techniques
involved in negotiating effectively with
others and how to apply them in practice is a
vital part of GP life.
Assertiveness in the workplace (Half day)
Creating an effective business case
(Full day)
GPs want to ensure that they improve and
develop their practice or department for
the better of the community. This workshop
demonstrates how to test the viability of a
business idea so that it can
be brought to fruition.
Delivering effective teaching
(Half or full day)
This practical workshop is suitable for junior
doctors who want to improve their teaching
skills. The session will provide you with
practical advice to understand learning
styles, defining learning outcomes, lesson
planning and preparation, engaging small
and large groups, and gathering feedback,
and give you a rapid introduction to some of
the main challenges of teaching.
CT
GP
VTS

they really want.
Interview skills for consultant roles
(Half day and full day)
Applying for hospital consultant positions
involves particularly challenging interviews.
This essential workshop introduces key
issues that dominate interviews for senior
roles and will help identify appropriate
evidence from previous experience..
(Half or full day)
(Half day)
(Full day)
Doctors want to ensure that they improve
and develop their practice or department for
business idea so that it can be brought to
fruition.
Management essentials (Full day)
As doctors move into management
positions, the skills necessary to become an
effective manager, such as making strategic
decisions, influencing people, negotiating
and managing conflict, are essential. This
interactive session provides practical
advice on how to continue to develop the
necessary skill sets.
Delivering effective teaching
(Half or full day)
This practical workshop is suitable for junior
doctors who want to improve their teaching
skills. The session will provide you with
practical advice to understand learning
styles, defining learning outcomes, lesson
planning and preparation, engaging small
and large groups, and gathering feedback,
and give you a rapid introduction to some of
the main challenges of teaching.
Higher Specialty TrainingST3+ Staff and Associate Specialist
Presenting and influencing (Full day)
persuasively, structure material and engage
audiences of various sizes.
(Half or full day)
(Half day)
(Full day)
business idea so that it can
be brought to fruition.
Revalidation and appraisal for SAS
doctors (Half or full day)
Revalidation and annual appraisals are an
important mechanism for SAS doctors to
ensure their professional development is on
track and a good chance to review career
direction. This course works to demystify
revalidation, help doctors plan and set good
objectives (known as outcomes in Wales),
explores reflection as a tool to ensure
positive results and looks at techniques that
could be used within the appraisal meeting
to get their voice heard.
SAS

Staff and Associate Specialist
Career support training for education
supervisors (Half or full day)
Doctors who are also education supervisors
will have trainees come to them for careers
support and advice. Having a theoretical
understanding of career management
theory and how it can be used to support
trainees is invaluable.
Managing teams in healthcare settings
(Full day)
Whether in a hospital or a practice setting,
the teams that a doctor may manage
present their own challenges. Taking a fresh
perspective on team dynamics and the
management of talent within organisations,
this session concentrates on how to develop
the skills to get the best performance out of
a team and increase the motivation of staff.
(Full day)
This essential one-day workshop introduces
key issues that dominate interviews for
senior roles and will help identify
appropriate evidence from previous
experience.
SAS Consultant
persuasively, structure material and present
clearly to audiences of various sizes.
(Half or full day)
(Half day)
(Full day)
fruition.
C

Consultant
Revalidation and appraisal
(Half or full day)
Revalidation and annual appraisals are
an important mechanism to ensure
professional development is on track and a
good chance to review career direction. This
course works to demystify revalidation, help
doctors plan and set good objectives (known
as outcomes in Wales), explores reflection
as tool to ensure positive results and looks
at techniques that could be used within the
appraisal meeting to get their voice heard.
Managing teams in healthcare
settings (Full day)
(Full day)
This essential one-day workshop introduces
key issues that dominate interviews
for senior roles and will help identify
appropriate evidence from previous
experience.
How to be an effective interviewer
(Half or full day)
Hiring the wrong people can lead to major
problems, possibly compromising both
patient safety and team morale. This
interactive workshop will cover the basics
of being on the other side of the interview
table and help doctors become more
confident in their hiring practices.
Developing and enhancing leadership
skills in your trainees (Half or full day)
Promoting shared leadership in medicine
and articulating this in a way that trainees
can put into practice is the fundamental
underpinning of this session. This interactive
workshop is designed to support senior
doctors as they guide and support their
trainees’ leadership development.
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“Everything I need to manage and lead.”
Ophthalmology Consultant, Course Participant –
Management Workshop 2013
they really want.
persuasively, structure material and engage
audiences of various sizes.
(Half or full day)
(Half day)
of their patients’ and wider services.
(Full day)
fruition.
GP

Managing teams in healthcare settings
(Full day)
Interview skills for consultant and
GP partner roles (Full day)
Applying for hospital consultant or GP
partnership positions involves particularly
challenging interviews. This essential one-
day workshop introduces key issues that
dominate interviews for senior roles and
will help identify appropriate evidence from
previous experience.
How to be an effective interviewer
(Half or full day)
Hiring the wrong people can lead to major
problems, possibly compromising both
patient safety and team morale. This
interactive workshop will cover the basics
of being on the other side of the interview
table and help doctors become more
confident in their hiring practices.
GP
Our course range and planning advice
can help when organising training for
your practice
Katie Dallison holds a Masters in careers development and has
9 years of experience in careers work. Katie is helping to shape
the careers offering at the BMA to provide the right support at the
right time for all doctors. Katie has a strong relationship with the
organisations who shape medical careers, such as the Medical
Careers Advisers Network and is working with the GMC to give
doctors a voice in careers related policy. Previously Katie worked for
The Careers Group, University of London for five years where she
was able to work with a broad range of clients, both in a consultancy
capacity and as a careers adviser. She ran the careers service at
St Georges, University of London, working with undergraduates,
postgraduates and Academics. She was also heavily involved in
delivering in-trust workshops for the London Deanery as part of the
foundation training curriculum.
Sophia Bourne has recently joined the BMA as a Medical Careers
Consultant. Her experience includes delivering one-to-one careers
guidance, career coaching, employee development and group
skills training within Adult Careers Guidance settings, her Career
Coaching practice, and earlier roles in HR Management within Marks
and Spencer plc, HR Consultancy within PricewaterhouseCoopers,
and Employee Research Consultancy within ORC International.
Sophia holds a BSc in Biological Sciences (Psychology), the Diploma
in Careers Guidance (Part 1) along with the NVQ 4 in Advice
and Guidance, a Diploma in Life Coaching, and she is currently
completing a MSc in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck College,
University of London. Sophia is also qualified in psychometrics Test
User Occupational-Ability/Personality.
Meet our
medical careers
consultants

Mary Macfarlane has worked in skills training and careers advice
since completing her PhD in 2008, firstly as Postgraduate Skills
Training Officer at the University of Manchester, and later as
Careers Consultant at the University of Salford. At Salford, Mary
was responsible for an ESF-funded training and work experience
programme for graduates, before moving into a Careers Consultant
role and delivering one-to-one and one-to-many careers advice
and skills training to students and graduates from a wide variety of
disciplines. Mary holds a PhD and is due to complete a Postgraduate
Diploma in Careers Education, Information and Guidance in Higher
Education at the University of Warwick in the summer of 2015.
Susan Edwards is a Medical Careers and Leadership Consultant,
speaker and trainer. Drawing on over 15 years of professional
experience she successfully works with a range of clients including;
healthcare professionals, business executives and entrepreneurs.
Susan’s work concentrates on the development and delivery of
learning and professional development activities. Developing
leadership skills that map into the leadership framework is
successfully run for foundation and specialty training doctors
throughout the UK. For senior healthcare professionals Susan
delivers CPD accredited courses on Management Essentials and
Creating Effective Business Case. Susan works with the NHS on a
range of leadership programmes and career coaching initiatives
most recently for Croydon NHS Trust and a London wide O&G
leadership initiative. Susan is a regular speaker and facilitator at
conferences and training events throughout the UK.
Everything
you need
to manage
your team’s
training
needs.
Quality group training
Led by our experienced medical
careers consultants, we deliver
tailored, CPD accredited career
development workshops covering a
range of non-clinical topics at a time
and location convenient to you.
We work with you to ensure the
workshops are cost-effective and
meet the learning objectives of
your team.
Get in touch to discuss the training
needs of your team
bmacareers@bma.org.uk
0300 123 1233
bma.org.uk/careers

Workshop FY CT GP VTS ST3+ SAS Consultant GP Duration
Career planning skills in your foundation years 1 hour
Applying to specialty – recruitment and selection 1 hour
Preparing for the assessment centre for GP training 1 hour
Interview skills training for specialty post

1½ hours
½ day

1-2 hours
½ day
Interview skills for your first GP salaried/locum post

1½ hours
½ day
CV review 1-2 hours
Presenting and influencing Full day
Negotiating and influencing ½ day
Full day
Assertiveness skills in the workplace ½ day
Delivering effective teaching ½ day
Full day

Full day
Management essentials

Full day
Job planning as a SAS doctor ½ day
Full day
Career support training for education supervisors ½ day
Full day
Managing teams in healthcare settings Full day
Interviewskills for consultantand GP partner roles

Full day
Developing and enhancing leadership skills in your trainees

½ day
Full day
Hiring the right people – how to be an interviewer ½ day
Full day
FY
CT
FY
FY
FY
FY
FY
CT
CT
CT
CT
GP
VTS
GP
VTS
GP
VTS
GP
VTS
GP
VTS
GP
VTS
GP
VTS
ST3+
ST3+
ST3+
ST3+
ST3+
ST3+
SAS
SAS
SAS
SAS
SAS
SAS
SAS
SAS
SAS
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP
GP

British Medical Association20 Training solutions from the BMA
Helpful programmes for all career stages
Time Management
Negotiating & Influencing
Management Essentials
Appraisal & Revalidation
Developing Leadership
Managing Teams
Hiring the Right People
Assertiveness in the
Workplace and more...
bmacareers@bma.org.uk
An exciting portfolio of CPD
approved career training and
support services delivered
at a time and location
convenient to you.

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Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP
bma.org.uk
© British Medical Association, 2014
BMA 54270
Email: bmacareers@bma.org.uk
Phone: 0300 123 1233
Web: bma.org.uk/careers

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